03 Decrees and 02 Circulars guiding the Telecommunications Law to be issued in Vietnam 

Accordingly, legal documents detailing and implementing the Telecommunications Law are to be developed as follows:

(1) A Decree detailing certain articles and measures for implementing the Telecommunications Law.

• Lead agency: Ministry of Information and Communications (Hanoi, Vietnam).
• Coordinating agencies: Government Office, Ministry of Justice (Hanoi, Vietnam), other ministries, central governmental bodies, People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities, and other relevant agencies and organizations.
• Submission deadline: Before April 15, 2024.

(2) A Decree detailing certain articles of the Telecommunications Law on managing telecommunications numbering plans, Internet resources; compensation for state withdrawal of telecommunication numbers, Internet resources; auctioning rights to use telecommunications numbers and the national domain name ".vn".

• Lead agency: Ministry of Information and Communications.
• Coordinating agencies: Government Office, Ministry of Justice, other ministries, central governmental bodies, People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities, and other relevant agencies and organizations.
• Submission deadline: Before April 15, 2024.

(3) A Decree detailing the Telecommunications Law on public telecommunications activities.

• Lead agency: Ministry of Information and Communications.
• Coordinating agencies: Government Office, Ministry of Justice, other ministries, central governmental bodies, People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities, and other relevant agencies and organizations.
• Submission deadline: Before April 15, 2024.

(4) Circular by the Minister of Information and Communications detailing wholesale activities in telecommunications.

• Lead agency: Ministry of Information and Communications.
• Coordinating agencies: Relevant agencies.
• Issuance and effective date: Before July 1, 2024.

(5) Circular by the Minister of Information and Communications detailing mechanisms, principles for price control, methods for pricing leased use of in-building cabling networks, prices for leasing passive telecommunication infrastructure between telecommunications enterprises, organizations, and individuals owning telecommunications works.

• Lead agency: Ministry of Information and Communications.
• Coordinating agencies: Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Finance, and other relevant agencies.
• Issuance and effective date: Before July 1, 2024.

(6) Ministers and heads of other central governmental bodies shall review the regulations of the Law, relevant legal provisions within their assigned scope of tasks and authority to issue under their authority or submit to the competent authority for issuance of legal normative documents to ensure the synchronization and unity of legal regulations.

Implementation period: Annually.

See more details in Decision 278/QD-TTg dated April 4, 2024.

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