Standards of cipher officers in Vietnam 2023

Standards of cipher officers in Vietnam 2023 (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. Who works in cipher organizations?

According to Clause 1, Article 23 of the Cipher Law 2011, persons working in cipher organizations include:

- Persons who are transferred, seconded or appointed to perform the tasks of the cipher force (below referred to as cipher officers);

- Persons who are selected for training in cipher operations;

- Persons working in cipher organizations other than those defined at Points a and b, Clause 1 of this Article (below referred to as non-cipher officers in cipher organizations).

2. Standards of cipher officers in Vietnam 2023

According to Clause 1, Article 26 of the Cipher Law 2011, cipher officers must fully satisfy the following standards:

- Having a firm political stuff, being absolutely loyal to the Fatherland and people, to the Communist Party of Vietnam and the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; voluntarily rendering long-term service in cipher organizations; being ready to undertake and fulfill assigned tasks.

- Having good moral quality, clean and clear family and personal political backgrounds;

- Possessing political and professional qualifications, skills, practical capabilities and good health as required by assigned tasks;

- Being trained in cipher operations.

3. Regulations on working ages of cipher officers in Vietnam

According to Article 27 of the Cipher Law 2011, the working ages of cipher officers are as follows:

(i) The age limit of cipher officers being army men or policemen complies with the laws on the People's Army and the People's Public Security. The age limit of cipher officers being neither army men nor police men complies with the Labor Code.

(ii) Cipher officers who are neither army men nor police men and satisfy the State-prescribed social insurance conditions are entitled to retirement; those who work in cipher organizations for full 25 years, for men, or full 20 years, for women and fully pay social insurance premiums with at least five years working as cipher officers and are no longer required to work in cipher organizations by cipher agencies or cannot be transferred to other jobs may retire before the age limit mentioned in (i)

4. Obligations and responsibilities of persons working in cipher organizations in Vietnam

Obligations and responsibilities of persons working in cipher organizations include:

- To keep confidential state secret information and cipher work secrets, even when they no longer work in cipher organizations.

- To submit to the assignment and transfer by their agencies or organizations and strictly and fully perform the assigned tasks; to be devoted to their work and ready to well fulfill their tasks in all circumstances; to strictly abide by the Party's line and policies and the State's laws, and the statutes, regimes and regulations on cipher work; to keep and preserve the assigned code products in absolute safety.

- To regularly preserve and foster their revolutionary morality, learn for higher qualifications, knowledge and capability in politics, cipher and military operation, culture and physical strength so as to fulfill their tasks.

- Upon receipt of an order of a competent person, if having a ground to believe that such order is illegal, to immediately report it to the person who issues the order; if having to obey the order, to promptly report it to the immediate superior of the person who issues the order and to bear no responsibility for the consequences of the execution of such order.

- To fulfill other tasks and responsibilities defined by law.

(Article 24 of the Cipher Law 2011)

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