Legal Updates & Publications

In this edition of our newsletter we report on the following: (i) New Decree on investment in the form of public-private partnerships; (ii) New Decree on state capital investment in enterprises; (iii) New Draft Circular regulating information confidentiality in the banking sector; (iv) Update on the draft Law on Special Administrative and Economic Units of Van Don, Bac Van Phong, and Phu Quoc (proposing to extend the land lease term up to 99 years); and (v) New Circular guiding Decree 146/2017/ND-CP on several taxes.

In this edition of our newsletter we report on the following: (i) New Decree amending decrees on business conditions under the authority of the Ministry of Industry and Trade; (ii) Draft Decree amending Decree No. 78/2015/ND-CP on enterprise registration; (iii) Draft Decree on the confidentiality of, and supply of customer information of credit institutions and branches of foreign banks; and (iv) New Decree guiding the Law on Food Safety.

In this edition of our newsletter we report on: (i) Several decrees introducing new import duty rates effective from 1 January 2018 for products imported from various countries having free trade agreements with Vietnam; (ii) New decree regulating region-based minimum wage levels applicable to labourers who work under labour contracts; (iii) Approval of certain equitisation plans for state-owned enterprises (PVPower, PVOil, EVN Genco 3); (iv) New decree on trading activities and businesses directly related to the trading activities of foreign investors and foreign invested companies; and (v) New decree applicable to logistics businesses.

Frasers’ Legal Alert on Equitisation of Vietnam oil and gas, and energy sectors SOEs is now available. Please click on the link below to read this Legal Alert.