Vietnam: Power to impose penalties of Presidents of People’s Committees in sanctioning administrative violations against regulations on petrol and oil trading

According to Article 56 of Decree No. 99/2020/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, the power to impose penalties of Presidents of People’s Committees for administrative violations against regulations on petroleum, and petrol, oil and gas trading is as follows:

1. Presidents of communal People’s Committees are entitled to:

- impose a maximum fine of VND 5,000,000 and VND 10,000,000 on an individual and an organization respectively;

- confiscate the exhibits and instrumentalities used for administrative violation commission, the value of which does not exceed the fine specified in Point a of this Clause;

- enforce the remedial measures mentioned in Point a Clause 3 Article 4 hereof.

2. Presidents of district-level People’s Committees are entitled to:

- impose a maximum fine of VND 50,000,000 and VND 100,000,000 on an individual and an organization respectively;

- suspend the petrol and oil trading license or the gas trading license or suspend the operation;

- confiscate the exhibits and instrumentalities used for administrative violation commission, the value of which does not exceed the fine specified in Point a of this Clause;

- enforce the remedial measures mentioned in Points a, c, d, dd and e Clause 3 Article 4 hereof.

3. Presidents of provincial People’s Committees are entitled to:

- impose a maximum fine of VND 1,000,000,000 and VND 2,000,000,000 on an individual and an organization respectively in the case of the violations specified in Chapter II of this Decree; impose a maximum fine of VND 100,000,000 and VND 200,000,000 on an individual and an organization respectively in the case of other violations specified in this Decree;

- suspend the petrol and oil trading license or the gas trading license or suspend the operation;

- confiscate the exhibits and instrumentalities used for administrative violation commission;

- enforce the remedial measures mentioned in Clause 3 Article 4 hereof.

View more details at Decree No. 99/2020/ND-CP that was issued on August 26, 2020 by Vietnam’s Government.

Le Vy

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