Chapter III
PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF THE VALUES OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGES
Article 17.- The State encourages and creates conditions for organizations and individuals to conduct activities of studying, collecting, preserving, teaching and introducing intangible cultural heritages in order to keep and promote the national cultural identity and enrich the treasure of cultural heritages of the Vietnamese nationalities community.
Article 18.- The presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities (hereinafter referred to as the presidents of the provincial-level People’s Committees) shall direct the organization of compilation of scientific dossiers on intangible cultural heritages in their localities in order to protect and promote the values thereof.
The Minister of Culture and Information shall prescribe the procedures for compiling scientific dossiers on intangible cultural heritages.
Article 19.- The Prime Minister shall consider and decide to propose the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to recognize Vietnam�s typical intangible cultural heritages as World Cultural Heritages, at the proposals of the Minister of Culture and Information.
Dossiers to be submitted to the Prime Minister must be evaluated in writing by the National Council for Cultural Heritages.
Article 20.- The competent State agencies shall have to apply necessary measures to protect intangible cultural heritages, prevent the danger of their being falsified, faded out or lost in the course of handing down.
Article 21.- The State adopts policies and create conditions for protecting and developing the spoken and written languages of the nationalities in Vietnam. All organizations and individuals have the responsibility to preserve the clarity and purity of the Vietnamese language.
Article 22.- The State and the society protect and promote the fine customs and traditions in the nation’s life-style and way of life; do away with bad customs and practices harmful to the people’s cultural life.
Article 23.- The State adopts policies to encourage the collection, compilation, translation, statistics, classification and archival of literary, art and scientific works, oral philology, folk oratorio of the Vietnamese nationalities community for popularization at home and cultural exchange with foreign countries.
Article 24.- The State adopts policies to encourage the maintenance, restoration and development of traditional handicrafts of typical values; the research into and application of knowledge about traditional medicine and pharmacy; the maintenance and promotion of values of the gastronomy, the nation’s traditional costumes and other folk knowledge.
Article 25.- The State creates conditions for the maintenance and promotion of the cultural value of traditional festivals; gets rid of bad customs and combat negative phenomena and commercialism in ritual organization and activities. The organization of traditional festivals must comply with the provisions of law.
Article 26.- The State honors and adopts the policy of preferential treatment to artisans and artists, who master and have merits in popularizing traditional arts or professional know-hows of special values.
Article 27.- Overseas Vietnamese, foreign organizations and individuals may conduct research into and collect intangible cultural heritages in Vietnam after obtaining written consents of the competent State bodies.
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Luật di sản văn hóa 2001 (Bản Pdf)
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