Duties and powers of the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam regarding postal services

08:50, 16/05/2017

The Ministry of Information and Communications is a Governmental agency exercising state management of press; publication, printing and release; postal services; telecommunications; radio frequencies; information technology and electronics; broadcasting, electronic information, news, foreign information services, information at grassroots level and public services of sectors under its state management.

Duties and powers of the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam regarding postal services are as follows:

1. Provide guidelines for mechanisms, policies, plans, projects, schemes and programs concerning postal services and organize and inspect implementation thereof; inspect list of public postal utilities, support mechanisms and provision of such utilities as prescribed by law;

2. Regulate postage and quality of public postal utilities, private postal services, public utilities concerning release of press works and postal utilities serving affiliates of the Communist Party and the State, and other postal services as per the law;

3. Manage postage stamps and control safety of postal operations intra vires;

4. Manage national postal codes and codes of Vietnamese postage stamps;

5. Issue, amend and revoke postal licenses; issue and amend confirmation of notification of postal operations;

6. Ex officio regulate and provide guidelines for operation of public postal networks and postal networks serving affiliates of the Communist Party and the State;

7. Cooperate in management of competition and settlement of disputes pertaining to postal services, and protection of legitimate rights of postal service users as prescribed by law.

View details at Decree No. 17/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from February 17, 2017.

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