Vietnam: Citizens must not access information that harms the interests of the State

15:08, 29/01/2017

This is one of the contents mentioned in the Law on access to information 2016 of Vietnam, which was approved by the National Assembly on April 06, 2016, consisting of 5 chapters, 37 articles.

According to the Law on access to information 2016 of Vietnam, inaccessible information consists of:

- Classified information that contains important contents associated with politics, national defense and security, foreign relations, economics, science, technology and other fields as regulated by the law, except for classified information which is declassified;

- Information the access to which is considered as:

+ harming the national interests, causing adverse influence on the national defense and security, international relations, social order and security, social ethics and the community health;

+ harming human life, living or property of others;

+ information classified as working secrets; those concerning internal meetings of state agencies; documents drafted by state agencies to serve their internal activities.

The Law on access to information 2016 of Vietnam takes effect from July 01, 2018.

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