Chương IX Luật Viễn thông 2023: Quản lý nhà nước về viễn thông

Chapter IX

STATE MANAGEMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Article 68. Contents of state management of telecommunications

1. Formulating, promulgating, and organizing the implementation of telecommunications development strategies, plannings, and policies, and legal documents on telecommunications; regulations on mechanisms for controlled testing of new technologies and models in telecommunications activities; national standards, technical regulations, technical requirements, economic and technical norms on telecommunications.

2. Managing and regulating the telecommunications market; managing the provision of telecommunications services and operations;

3. Disseminating information and educating about regulations of the law on telecommunications.

4. Giving training and refresher training, and developing human resources; conducting scientific and technological research and applying science and technology to telecommunications activities.

5. Managing telecommunications reports and statistics in the form of online or offline.

6. Making international cooperation in telecommunications.

7. Carrying out inspection and examination of the compliance with regulations of the law on telecommunications.

8. Settling disputes, complaints and denunciations and handling violations against regulations of the law on telecommunications.

Article 69. Responsibilities for state management of telecommunications

1. The Government shall perform the uniform state management of telecommunications.

2. The Ministry of Information and Communications shall act as a focal point in charge of assisting the Government to perform state management of telecommunications.

3. The Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security, within the scope of their tasks and powers, shall manage private telecommunications networks for national defense and security. The Minister of National Defense shall manage the private telecommunications network for cipher work.

4. Ministries and ministerial authorities shall, within the ambit of their tasks and powers, cooperate with the Ministry of Information and Communications in performing state management of telecommunications.

5. People’s Committees at all levels shall, within the ambit of their tasks and powers, perform state management of telecommunications in their provinces.

Article 70. International cooperation in telecommunications

1. International cooperation in telecommunications shall be made on the principles of respect for independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, equality and mutual benefit.

2. The international cooperation shall comply with international treaties on telecommunications to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a signatory.

3. Vietnam makes a commitment to act as an active and responsible member of international telecommunications organizations.

4. The priority shall be given to consideration of signing international treaties and agreements that are beneficial to promotion of the development of new and advanced telecommunications technologies in conformity with Vietnam’s interests and capabilities.

5. International cooperation and support for state management, training for human resources, sharing of information, experience, research and development of next generation Internet technologies, standards, and applications, and next generation telecommunications network technologies shall be encouraged.

6. The Ministry of Information and Communications is a focal point in charge of consolidating international integration and cooperation activities in telecommunications. Ministries, ministerial authorities, and People’s Committees at all levels shall make international cooperation in telecommunications within their management.