Vietnam: Regulation on acts of obstructing inspection and examination

According to Article 42 of Decree No. 107/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, obstructing inspection and examination shall be fined up to VND 40 million. To be specific:

1. A warning or fine of between VND 500,000 and 1,000,000 for failing to provide, or insufficiently and unpunctuality the information and documents relating to the inspection, examination at the request of competent state agencies.

2. A fine of between VND 3,000,000 and 6,000,000 for providing dossiers, documents, information about radioactive sources, radiation equipment, nuclear materials, nuclear equipment or other information about radiation and nuclear safety, which are untrue, for the inspection and examination delegations, competent state agencies.

3. Depriving the right to use the license for doing radiation jobs, registration license for providing support service for the application of atomic energy, certificate for practicing support service for the application of atomic energy from 06 months to 12 months, in case of violating the provision in Clause 2 of this Article and causing serious consequences.

4. A fine of between VND 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 for one of the following acts:

- Insulting or threatening the duty officers;

- Dodging, obstructing, or delaying the fulfillment of the content, request, proposal of the persons competent to inspection, examination or decisions on inspection, examination in radiation and nuclear safety;

- Arbitrarily breaking the sealing, changing the position, trace of sealing for radioactive sources, radiation equipment when they are impounded or made sealing by inspection agencies.

5. A fine of between VND 10,000,000 and 20,000,000 for failing to provide, or insufficiently and unpunctually the documents at the request of competent state agencies during the safety inspection of the installation, test run, assessment, construction, change of the operational scale and scope of nuclear reactors.

6. A fine of between VND 20,000,000 and 40,000,000 for one of the following acts:

- Failing to cooperate with competent state agencies in inspection of dismantling, decontaminating or treating nuclear fuel, nuclear equipment, and radioactive waste;

- Dodging, delaying, obstructing, failing to cooperate with competent state agencies in the inspection on the spot of the adherence to the approved design.

View more details at Decree No. 107/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from November 15, 2013.

Ty Na

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