Highlights of key documents in construction, healthcare, and culture in Vietnam

1. Determination of Cost for Maintenance of Construction Works in Vietnam

The Ministry of Construction issued Circular 03/2017/TT-BXD (effective from May 1, 2017) providing guidance on determining the costs for maintenance of construction works. The types of maintenance costs for construction works include:

- Costs for preparing and verifying the maintenance process of construction works;

- Costs for performing annual periodic maintenance tasks (planning, periodic inspection; maintenance of the structure; preparation and management of maintenance records);

- Costs for regular and unexpected repairs of the construction works;

- Costs for quality inspection of the construction works to serve maintenance;

- Costs for monitoring the construction works to serve maintenance;

- Costs for assessing load-bearing safety and operational safety of the construction works;

- Other related costs.

Additionally, the Circular includes an Appendix on the percentage cost norm table for annual periodic maintenance tasks for four types of construction works.

1. Use of PlasmaMed Machine to Support Quick Wound Healing in Vietnam

On March 15, 2017, the Ministry of Health signed Decision 898/QD-BYT providing guidelines on the technical process for supporting wound treatment using the PlasmaMed machine.

The PlasmaMed machine is used to support dressing changes for patients with wounds that are:

- Slow healing; infected; necrotic;

- Pressure ulcers (areas of the plantar surface, heel, sacrum, shoulder blade, and occipital regions);

- New wounds at risk of infection, slow healing such as: multiple bruises, scattered skin loss, dirty wounds, swollen wounds, wounds/patients with diabetes, body weakening...;

- Burns.

Contraindications for using the PlasmaMed machine for wound treatment include:

- Patients using pacemakers or defibrillators;

- Contraindications for regular dressings (showing signs of respiratory failure or cardiovascular collapse, shock...);

- Eye wounds.

Decision 898/QD-BYT takes effect from the date of signing.

1. Approval of Two Competency Standards Documents for Health Sector Officers

On March 14, 2017, the Ministry of Health signed Decision 868/QD-BYT and Decision 869/QD-BYT approving:

- The document "Basic Leadership and Management Competency Standards for Directors of Institutes in the field of Preventive Health, Directors of Centers for Disease Control", structured into four areas, 15 standards, and 47 criteria;

- The document "Basic Competency Standards for Health Inspectors", structured into three areas, including 10 standards and 30 criteria.

Refer to the detailed documents at Decision 868/QD-BYT and Decision 869/QD-BYT, effective from the date of signing.

1. Fines up to 10 Million VND for Actions of Defamatory Image Editing

This is a content added in Decree 28/2017/ND-CP amending and supplementing Decree 158/2013/ND-CP and Decree 131/2013/ND-CP on penalties for administrative violations in the fields of culture, sports, tourism, advertising; copyright, and related rights.

It supplements a number of violations with corresponding penalties as follows:

- Editing, splicing images to distort history, deny revolutionary achievements; insult national heroes, leaders, cultural figures; defame, harm the reputation of agencies, organizations, and the honor and dignity of individuals: Fines from 5 to 10 million VND;

- Festival, relic areas without toilets or with substandard toilets: Fines from 1 to 3 million VND;

- Distributing advertising flyers affecting aesthetics, public order and traffic safety: Fines from 200 to 500 thousand VND.

Additionally, the Decree increases fines for acts of replicating banned recording songs.

Decree 28/2017/ND-CP takes effect from May 5, 2017.

Additionally, there is a number of documents in various other fields, such as:

1. Resolution 03/2017/NQ-HDTP on publishing judgments and decisions on the Court's electronic portal, effective from July 1, 2017;
2. Decree 30/2017/ND-CP organizing and operating disaster response, and search and rescue, effective from May 5, 2017;
3. Decision 03/2017/QD-KTNN stipulating the establishment, appraisal, and issuance of the annual audit plan of the State Audit, effective from May 5, 2017;
4. Circular 06/2017/TT-BNNPTNT amending and supplementing Circular 03/2016/TT-BNNPTNT regarding the list of plant protection substances allowed and banned from use in Vietnam; announcing the HS codes of plant protection substances allowed and banned from use in Vietnam, effective from April 25, 2017.

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