On December 31, 2015, the Minister of Industry and Trade of Vietnam issued Circular No. 59/2015/TT-BCT prescribing the management of e-commerce activities via applications on mobile equipment.
Specifically, according to Article 11 of Circular No. 59/2015/TT-BCT of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam, information about notification of a goods sale application includes:
a/ Name of the application;
b/ Archive address or address to download the application;
c/ Information specified at Points b, c, d, dd, and e, Clause 2, Article 53 of Decree No. 52/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government.
Moreover, Circular No. 59/2015/TT-BCT stipulates that the process of notification of the goods sale application must comply with the process of notification of e-commerce websites for goods sale specified in Articles 9 and 10 of Circular No. 47/2014/TT-BCT dated December 05, 2014 of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam on the management of e-commerce websites).
Traders, organizations and individuals that own goods sale applications shall update notified information under Article 12 of Circular No. 47/2014/TT-BCT. In case of a change in any of the information prescribed in Clause 1, Article 11 of Circular No. 59/2015/TT-BCT or termination of operation of a notified goods sale application, a trader or an organization or individual shall notify such to the Ministry of Industry and Trade within 7 working days after such change occurs or operation terminates.
The process of change in or termination of notified information about goods sale applications must comply with the process applied to e-commerce websites for goods sale specified in Article 11 of Circular No. 47/2014/TT-BCT.
View more details at Circular No. 59/2015/TT-BCT of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam, effective from March 31, 2016.
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