Chương 2 Nghị định 03/2002/NĐ-CP : Bảo vệ an ninh dầu khí

Chapter II

PETROLEUM SECURITY PROTECTION

Article 6.- The tasks of protecting petroleum security are to prevent, detect, stop and handling the following acts:

1. Abusing petroleum activities to infringe upon the national security, the sovereignty and sovereignty rights of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

2. Indirectly or directly sabotaging petroleum agencies and/or enterprises, petroleum projects, means and equipment.

3. Infringing upon petroleum activities, causing damage to the State’s assets, the national interests and/or the legitimate interests of organizations and individuals conducting petroleum activities.

4. Disclosing the State’s secrets in petroleum activities.

5. Harming the implementation of undertakings, policies and legislation on the development of the petroleum sector.

Article 7.- Before starting petroleum activities in Vietnam, all organizations and individuals must draw up plans and schemes to protect petroleum activities as well as petroleum projects, means and equipment according to the regulations of the Ministry of Public Security. The protection plans and schemes must be forwarded to Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation for coordinated implementation.

Article 8.-

1. The recruitment of laborers to work for Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation must strictly comply with the law provisions on labor and other relevant law provisions.

For foreigners and overseas Vietnamese, the recruitment dossiers must contain their judicial records. After being recruited, these individuals must operate in compliance with their entry purposes.

2. Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation shall have to coordinate with the functional State bodies in managing activities of foreign laborers and overseas Vietnamese working for petroleum contractors, representative offices and enterprises in Vietnam.

Article 9.-

1. Foreign petroleum contractors, foreign-invested petroleum enterprises, when recruiting Vietnamese laborers, must strictly comply with the Vietnamese law provisions on labor. They, after recruiting laborers, must send notices thereon together with the copies of the labor contracts to Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation.

2. Foreign petroleum contractors, foreign-invested petroleum enterprises, when sending Vietnamese laborers to work or study abroad, must notify Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation of the lists of the delegation members and the working or study programs.

Article 10.-

1. Foreigners and overseas Vietnamese working for foreign contractors, or foreign-invested petroleum enterprises in Vietnam must strictly observe the Vietnamese laws and the international agreements which Vietnam has signed or acceded to.

2. Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation may request foreign contractors and foreign-invested petroleum enterprises to terminate labor contracts with laborers when detecting evidences of violations of Vietnamese laws.

Article 11.- Information categorized as State secrets in the petroleum sector, when being transmitted by wired, wireless communications means or other technical means, must be encoded according to the State’s regulations on the cipher work.

To strictly prohibit the exchange or publication of information listed as State secrets in the petroleum sector on the mass media.

Article 12.- Organizations and individuals conducting petroleum activities in Vietnam, when using the computerized communication system connected with the Internet in service of petroleum activities, shall have the responsibility to:

1. Observe the State’s regulations on the establishment, management and use of the Internet;

2. Take responsibility before law for the information contents fed into or transmitted from their computer systems;

3. When detecting information of illegal sources infiltrating into Vietnam or law-breaking acts in the Internet use, immediately report them to the functional Sate bodies for handling.