Vietnam: Grant of electricity-transmitting activity licenses shall meet the following 06 conditions

According to Article 30 of Decree No. 137/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, organizations registering for electricity-transmitting activity must satisfy the following conditions:

1. Being organizations and individuals that are established and operate under legislation, including:

- Enterprises of all economic sectors that are established and operate under the enterprise law;

- Cooperatives that are established and operate under Law on cooperatives;

- Business households, individuals with business registration certificate as prescribed by law;

- Other organizations that are established and operate under legislation.

2. The business lines conform to the sector requested for license.

3. Having regular dossiers of request for grant, amendment and supplementation of electricity activity licenses.

4. Paying fees and charges for appraisal for grant of electricity activity licenses in accordance with regulations.

5. Having technological equipment and means, workshops and architectural works compliant with the approved technical designs, which have been built, installed and tested and before acceptance as meeting requirements of operating, maintaining, repairing, testing electricity-transmitting lines, substations, switching stations, stations for reactive power compensation and synchronous devices attached in system of electricity transmission; system of fire prevention and fighting which meet requirements as prescribed.

6. Persons directly involved in technical management must have university diplomas in electricity and have worked in the field of electricity transmission for at least 5 years. Persons directly involved in electricity operation must be trained, tested process of operation and regulations on electric safety under legislation.

View details at Decree No. 137/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from December 10, 2013.

Ty Na

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