Vietnam: A fine up to VND 30 million for establishing e-commerce service websites or e-commerce service apps without registration

15:03, 13/11/2015

This is a notable content mentioned in Decree No. 124/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government providing amendments and supplements to a number of articles of Decree No. 185/2013/NĐ-CP dated November 15, 2013 regulating penalties for administrative violations in commercial activities, production and trading in counterfeit and banned goods, and protection of consumer rights.

According to Decree No. 124/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, a fine from VND 20,000,000 – 30,000,000 for one of the following acts:

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- Establish e-commerce service websites or e-commerce service apps without registration with competent state management agencies as prescribed;

- Receive transfer of e-commerce service websites or e-commerce service apps without following procedures on transfer or fail to register again with competent state management agencies as prescribed;

- Carry out supply of e-commerce services inconsistently with registration documents;

- Falsify information for registration of e-commerce service websites or e-commerce service apps;

- Forge registration information on e-commerce service websites or e-commerce service apps;

- Continue supply of e-commerce services after termination or postponement of registration;

In addition to being fined, violating organizations and individuals shall have their e-commerce activities suspended from 06 to 12 in case of multiple or repeated violations. Concurrently, force withdrawal of domains “.vn” of e-commerce websites or removal of mobile apps from app stores or from supplied addresses.

View full text at Decree No. 124/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from January 05, 2016.

Thu Ba

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