Vietnam: 08 tasks and powers of the Ministry of Health on the prevention of tobacco harms

According to Article 5 of the Law on Tobacco Harm Prevention of Vietnam, the Ministry of Health shall be responsible for to the Government for the state management of the prevention of tobacco harms, and has the following tasks and powers:

- Promulgate intra vires, or request the Government and the Prime Minister to promulgate, legal documents, strategies, policies and plans on the prevention of tobacco harms, and national technical regulations on tobacco;

- Directing and organizing the implementation of legal documents, strategies, policies and plans on the prevention of tobacco harms;

- Providing information and education about the prevention of tobacco harms;

- Providing training and increase manpower for the prevention of tobacco harms;

- Organizing tobacco addiction research, consultation, prevention, diagnosis and treatment;

- Carrying out inspections, settling complaints and denunciations, and disciplining violations of the prevention of tobacco harms intra vires;

- Annually reviewing and reporting the results of prevention of tobacco harms to the Government ;

- Participating in international cooperation in the prevention of tobacco harms.

Besides, other ministries and ministerial-level agencies , within the ambit of their tasks and powers, must actively perform the tasks of preventing tobacco harms; and coordinate with the Ministry of Health in performing the state management of the prevention of tobacco harms. The People's Committees at all levels, within the ambit of their tasks and powers, must administer the prevention of tobacco harms; and be in charge for implementation of regulations on local non-smoking places.

View more details at the Law on Tobacco Harm Prevention of Vietnam, officially effective from January 01, 2013.

Ty Na

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