A fine of up to 7 million VND for making untruthful declarations of border health quarantine when entering Vietnam

A fine of up to 7 million VND for making untruthful declarations of border health quarantine when entering Vietnam (Illustrative photo)

According to Article 13 of Decree 117/2020/N-CP, violations against regulations on border health quarantine in Vietnam will be subject to the following penalties:

1. A fine ranging from VND 3.000.000 to VND 5.000.000 shall be imposed for commission of one of the following violations in Vietnam:

- Failing to submit a written report to the Ministry of Health on carving, re-carving, revocation, destruction, invalidation or loss of the health quarantine seal;

- Failing to make a record of specimen health quarantine seals;

- Failing to prepare and keep documents when carving or re-carving a health quarantine seal as prescribed;

- Failing to immediately contact the border health quarantine unit in the checkpoint area if a passenger or aircrew member on board an aircraft or a ship displays signs or symptoms of an infectious disease before the aircraft takes off or lands or the ship enters a port;

- Deliberately embarking or disembarking, unloading or receiving goods when a ship anchors pending heath quarantine or is quarantined, unless the ship is in distress.

2. A fine ranging from VND 5.000.000 to VND 7.000.000 shall be imposed for commission of one of the following violations in Vietnam:

- Failing to follow the health inspection and control carried out by the border health quarantine unit as prescribed by law, except the case prescribed in Clause 4 of this Article;

- Failing to strictly comply with regulations on quarantine signs for incoming ships;

- Erasing, repairing or lending symbols, badges, cards or uniforms of health quarantine officers, or traditional flags of border health quarantine units for serving other purposes;

- Failing to make a health declaration or making untruthful declaration of border health quarantine as prescribed by law.

3. A fine ranging from VND 7.000.000 to VND 10.000.000 shall be imposed for commission of one of the following violations in Vietnam:

- Transporting corpses, remains, body ashes, microorganism samples, biological products, tissues, body organs, blood or its components through the border without inspection by a health quarantine unit;

- Importing samples of blood, serum, plasma, urine, fecal, body fluids or other human materials that contain or may contain infectious agents, microorganism species or samples containing microorganisms that may human diseases for reserve, diagnosis or medical examination without the import permit.

4. A fine ranging from VND 15.000.000 to VND 20.000.000 shall be imposed for failing to comply with medical isolation, coercive medical isolation and health control of people, vehicles, goods and other health quarantine subjects carrying pathogens causing any group-A infectious diseases.

More details can be found in Decree 117/2020/N-CP effective from November 15, 2020.

Thuy Tram

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