Vietnam: Selling alcohol to people under the age of 18 is strictly prohibited

Le Hai

09:12, 01/12/2017

This is one of the prohibited acts specified in Decree No. 105/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government on trade in alcohol.

According to Decree No. 105/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, the following acts are strictly prohibited in trade in alcohol:

- Trade in alcohol without a license or not suitable for contents stated in the license specified herein.

- Use of ethanol that fails to comply with regulations, industrial alcohol or other banned materials for production or preparation of alcohol.

- Leasing out or lending the certificate of eligibility for trade in alcohol.

- Display, purchase, sale or consumption of alcohol without label; alcohol that fails to meet standards, quality or regulations on food safety; or alcohol without origin.

- Selling alcohol to people under the age of 18, sale of alcohol whose concentration is 15 degrees or over on the Internet, or sale of alcohol by an automatic selling machine.

- Commercial or promotion against regulations of law.

“Alcohol” means any alcoholic drink produced by the fermentation (with or without distillation) of starches of cereals, sugar syrups from plants and fruits or prepared from drinking alcohol (ethanol). Alcohol does not include beer and fermented juice that contains less than 5% alcohol by volume (ABV). (Clause 1 Article 3 of Decree No. 105/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government)

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