Featured policy in force beginning in June 2022

DNHN - Declare online information on the issuance of regular passports nationwide; Remove health officials' foreign language and information technology certifications; Stop the manual collection of tolls on the Hanoi-Hai Phong highway is a new policy and law that will take effect in June 2022.

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Stop collecting manual tolls on the Hanoi - Hai Phong highway as of June 1st.

According to the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam, the Hanoi - Hai Phong highway will no longer collect manual tolls as of June 1, 2022, and will instead pioneer 100 per cent non-stop electronic toll collection (ETC) for cars going on this expressway.

Therefore, cars without ETC cards or with stickers but insufficient accounts for circulation that access the Hanoi - Hai Phong route will be punished for traffic offences beginning on June 1.

Declare online the nationwide issuing of regular passports

Implementing the Project "Developing the Application of Population Data, Electronic Identification and Authentication for National Digital Transformation in the Period 2022-2025, with a Vision to 2030," the Immigration Department has coordinated with functional units to deploy online public services to issue ordinary passports (without electronic chips) to citizens on the Public Service Portal of the Ministry of Public Security.

According to the Ministry of Public Security's Department of Immigration, this service will be introduced nationwide on June 1, 2022. It was previously tested in Hanoi beginning on May 15, 2022.

Thus, beginning next June, individuals will be able to use the Public Service Portal of the Ministry of Public Security to register papers, pay fees online, get passports by mail, or come straight to the immigration management office to receive them when the results are available.

Until the end of June 30, 2022, the policy of lowering passport costs is also in effect.

Date by which costs for chip-based Citizen IDs must be reduced.

The Ministry of Finance has released Circular 120/2021/TT-BTC, choosing to cut many fees and levies to assist individuals and companies impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. Notably, the charge for creating a chip-based citizen identification card has been reduced by fifty per cent.

This discounted rate is only applicable until June 30, 2022. After this date, commuters will be required to pay the cost outlined in Circular No. 59/2019/TT-BTC.

In addition, June 30, 2022, is the deadline for implementing the strategy to reduce road user costs; registration certificate prices; passport issuance fees; passport...

Eliminate foreign language and information technology credentials for health officials.

The Ministry of Health released Circular 03/2022/TT-BYT revising regulations on requirements for professional titles for the medical profession on April 26, 2022, to reduce the number of improper training certificates for health professionals.

The revised circular eliminates several prerequisites for foreign language and informatics certifications in the criteria for training and cultivating qualifications of health care workers, including:

Public employees are physicians, specialists in preventive medicine, and medical professionals who work at public health institutions.

- Officers of public health working at public health institutions

- In public health institutions, nursing officers, midwives, and medical technicians. Pharmacists are employed by public health institutions.

- Nutritionists working for the government

- Population officers operate in non-business public health and population units. Instead, Circular 03 demands just basic information technology skills and the ability to utilize foreign languages or languages of ethnic minorities for public workers working in health sector ethnic minority areas, according to the job criteria. The circular 03/2022/TT-BYT enters into force on June 10, 2022.

Utilize only paper invoices till June 30.

According to Decree No. 123/2020/ND-CP, firms and economic organizations that have announced the issuance of ordered invoices, self-printed invoices, or invoices acquired from tax authorities before October 19, 2020, may continue to use those invoices until June 30, 2022.

Businesses, economic organizations, business families, and business persons will be required to migrate to electronic invoicing beginning on July 1, 2022.

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