On July 5, 2019, the Ministry of Transport issued Circular 25/2019 / TT-BGTVT regulating the quality of technical safety and environmental protection in automobile assembly and production. The Circular takes effect from August 25, 2019.
Some notable contents in the circular:
– The Circular stipulating production and assembly cars must have a design dossier and be appraised by the Vietnam Register of Quality (QC). Models will be tested typical models. Next, the enterprise must have a dossier of registration of quality of technical safety and environmental protection of products and at the same time ensure product quality in production and assembly.
– The Circular also stipulates the order for granting technical safety and environmental protection certificates; Regulating requirements for enterprises in mass production and assembly process; Reissue Certificate of product type; Suspension of ex-works of product type and revocation of Certificate for product type; Regulations on recalling defective products …
– For regulations on quality assurance of manufactured and assembled products, the Circular stipulates that the quality control agency will perform the assessment of product quality assurance (assessing COP) according to the following methods:
+ For home-made products, the initial evaluation is carried out when issuing the Certificate of technical safety and environmental protection of product types according to the criteria stated in IATF 16949 standard. Quality management system for organizations that produce and service related automotive components.
+ Assessments in subsequent periods are conducted to assess the implementation and maintenance of quality assurance of production facilities. At this assessment, QCA will take a random sample to assess the storage of records, documents related to the product and the suitability of ex-factory products compared to the application file for registration of type-quality certificates. . The time of the next evaluation period for component manufacturing establishments is 36 months. For automobile manufacturing and assembling establishments, the subsequent evaluation period is from 12 to 36 months depending on the group of enterprises classified, determined on the basis of applying risk management in product quality management. manufactured and assembled products.
+ For components imported from a country that has a mutual recognition agreement in the field of motor vehicle quality certification, the mutual recognition agreement is followed.
In addition, Circular 25 also stipulates the regulations for domestic assembling manufacturing enterprises in the process of mass assembly, product recall, …
Circular 25 clearly stipulates the automotive quality inspection process, which is the basis for enterprises to implement, contributing to ensuring the quality of automobiles in the country as well as the environment.

On June 14, 2019, at the 7th session, the XIV National Assembly passed Law No. 42/2019 / QH14 amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Insurance Business and the Intellectual Property Law. This law takes effect from November 1, 2019, except the following cases take effect from January 14, 2019 (the time before this Law was enacted:
– Application for establishing industrial property rights with the filing date from January 14, 2019;
– Request to cancel the validity of Patents for invention, Patents for utility solutions, Certificates of registration of geographical indications issued on the basis of applications for establishing industrial property rights with the filing date from January 14, 2019;
– The request for invalidation of a trademark registration certificate is made from January 14, 2019;
– The lawsuit against infringement of intellectual property rights is accepted by a competent agency from January 14, 2019; Other requirements for intellectual property protection are carried out from January 14, 2019
Accordingly, Law No. 42/2019 / QH14 has amended and supplemented some following basic provisions of the current Intellectual Property Law:
– First, the legal effect with a third party on the contract of using industrial property rights (licensing contract):
Under the current Intellectual Property Law, the contract of industrial property rights is valid for the third time from the time of registration, including a trademark use contract. However, Law No. 42/2019 / QH14 amended this content in the direction: the contract of use of industrial property rights is valid for the third time from the time of registration unless the right to use the trademark.
– Secondly, on the basis of compensation for material damage:
According to the current Intellectual Property Law, there are two methods, based on the following to determine the material damage caused by infringement of intellectual property rights:
+ Total physical damage in money plus the profit that the defendant has obtained due to an infringement of intellectual property rights, if the plaintiff’s reduced profits have not been included in the total damage material;
+ The transfer price of the right to use the object of intellectual property is assumed to be transferred by the plaintiff to the right to use that object under the contract to use the object of intellectual property within the scope corresponding to the infringement. made;
However, according to Law No. 42/2019 / QH14, intellectual property right holders have the right to devise a calculation method other than the above two methods. This is an important new point, expanding the scope, methods and bases for determining material damage, because when the above mentioned bases cannot be used, the Court will determine the value of damage and value. The damage determined by the Court does not exceed VND 500 million.
– Thirdly, about the plaintiff’s liability for the defendant when the Court determines that the defendant did not commit infringement of the plaintiff’s intellectual property rights:
Law No. 42/2019 / QH14 supplemented and clarified the responsibilities of plaintiffs in case the Court determines that the defendant has no infringement acts as follows: “Organizations and individuals are defendants in the lawsuit violating intellectual property rights, if it is concluded that the Court does not commit infringement, it is entitled to ask the Court to force the plaintiff to pay him reasonable expenses to hire a lawyer or other expenses as prescribed. under the law”
Thus, Law No. 42/2019 / QH14 has amended and supplemented many important provisions of the current Intellectual Property Law, contributing to better protection of the rights of intellectual property rights owners and individuals, another organization, contributing to bringing Vietnam’s intellectual property legal framework closer to international standards and standards, including CPTPP.

On June 5, 2019, the Ministry of Planning and Investment issued Official Letter No. 3763/BKHDT-HTX guiding the conversion of cooperatives to enterprises.
Accordingly, if the cooperative organizes and operates incompatible with legal regulations or wants to convert to another type of organization and does not fall into the state of “insolvency”, it shall perform as follows:
Step 1: Conduct a member meeting, specifically:
– Prepare member congresses according to Article 31, 32 and 33 of the Cooperative Law and Clause 2 Article 32 of Decree 193/2013/ND-CP of the Government.
– The Members’ General Meeting voted and issued a Resolution on voluntary dissolution to implement the cooperative transformation.
Step 2: Voluntary dissolution according to the procedure in Clause 1, Article 19 of Decree 193/2013 / ND-CP
– The Board dissolves the work in accordance with the provisions of Point a, Point b, Clause 1, Article 54 of the Cooperative Law 2012, referring to the sequence including single steps such as:
– Prepare inventory report, evaluate the whole operation and financial situation of the cooperative.
– Develop plans to deal with assets, capital, debts, liquidation of economic contracts of cooperatives and publicly notify members, workers, individuals and related organizations.
– The Dissolution Council makes a written agreement on the voluntary dissolution plan if approved by the members, employees, individuals and related organizations, etc.
Step 3: Establish new businesses according to regulations.
Therefore, the content of guidance according to the aforementioned Official Dispatch creates a more uniform understanding in the process of transforming the enterprise type in order to facilitate the implementation of the enterprise as well as the management of the agency. government.

On 24/05/2019, The Supreme People’s Court of Judges issued Resolution No. 03/2019/NQ-HDTP guiding the application of Article 324 of the Penal Code on “Money laundering” offenses. This resolution takes effect from 07/07/2019.
Resolution 03/2019/NQ-HDTP clarifies the concept of “knowing or having a basis to know that other people commit crimes”. Four cases are explained in detail, such as: offenders know directly the money and property committed by others; know through mass media about source crime; By common sense and by law, it is necessary to know the origin of the money due to the crime.
There are 5 major facts to condemn, including:
1. Acts of directly or indirectly participating in financial and banking transactions (performing, supporting the implementation or through other people to perform, assisting in the conduct of acts aimed at hiding the origin legality of money and property committed by the offender with or having grounds to know that it is committed by another person);
2. Acts of directly or indirectly participating in other transactions (implementation, support for implementation or through others to perform, support the implementation of acts to conceal illegal sources of money , the property committed by the offender has or has grounds to know that it is committed by another person);
3. Acts of using money and property that they commit crimes with or knowing or having grounds to know are committed by other persons to conduct business activities (using money and financial resources) produce one, several or all stages of the investment process from production to consumption of products or provision of services in the market for profit purposes);
4. Behavior of using money and property due to a crime, whether or not knowing or having a basis to know that another person commits an offense and takes part in conducting other activities (using money and property to providing services, building schools, hospitals or using them as sponsorships, charities, humanitarian aid or other activities);
5. Acts of hindering the verification of information on the origin and nature of property (deliberately causing difficulties or obstacles to clarifying the origin, true nature, position, process of movement or office property for money and property (for example, providing false documents and information; not providing, providing incomplete; canceling, destroying, repairing, erasing documents and evidence …).
Resolution 03/2019/NQ-HDTP showing the criminal prosecution of money laundering can be conducted concurrently with criminal prosecution of criminal offenses and does not exclude the prosecution criminal crime source.
Thus, Resolution 03/2019/NQ-HDTP adds many contents and concretizes qualitative details on “Money laundering” in order to remove obstacles in practical application.

On 26/06/2019, the Government issued Decree No. 57/2019/ND-CP stipulating preferential export tariffs and special preferential import tariffs to implement a comprehensive and progressive partnership agreement. Trans-Pacific period 2019-2022 takes effect on 26/06/2019.
Accordingly, Decree No. 57/2019/ND-CP has the following outstanding contents:
– The Decree promulgates the Preferential Export Tariff for the implementation of the CPTPP Agreement and the Special Preferential Tariff for the implementation of the CPTPP Agreement; List of goods and special preferential import tariffs for used cars applying tariff quotas to implement CPTPP Agreement.
– Preferential export tax rates will follow periods when exported to each country for each item.
– Non-preferential items of the Export Tariff are subject to a 0% tax rate when exported to the Australian territory; Canada; Japan; Mexican Federation; New Zealand; Republic of Singapore.
– Particularly preferential import tax rates and goods items subject to tariff quotas shall apply according to stages imported from the countries prescribed for each goods code.
Thus, Decree No. 57/2019/ND-CP has detailed regulations on goods codes, description of goods, export and import tax rates when Vietnam implements CPTPP Agreement period 2019-2022.