Chương I Nghị định 42/2022/NĐ-CP: Quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope

This Decree prescribes the provision of online information and online public services by regulatory bodies.

Article 2. Regulated entities

1. Ministries, ministerial agencies, governmental agencies; General Departments, Departments and equivalent agencies; specialized agencies affiliated to People's Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities (hereinafter referred to as “provincial People’s Committees); specialized agencies affiliated to People's Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities; People’s Committees of urban districts, rural districts, district-level towns, provincial cities and central-affiliated cities (hereinafter referred to as “district-level People’s Committees”); People's Committees of communes, wards and commune-level towns affiliated to districts, urban districts, district-level towns, provincial cities and central-affiliated cities (hereinafter referred to as “commune-level People's Committees”).

2. Organizations and individuals providing and using online information and public services of regulatory bodies in accordance with regulations of law.

3. Other agencies and organizations voluntarily applying provisions of this Decree.

Article 3. Definitions

For the purposes of this Decree, the terms below shall be construed as follows:

1. “web portal” means a body's online access point connecting and integrating information channels, services and applications through which users can exploit, use and personalize displayed information.

2. “agency managing a web portal or website” means any of the regulatory bodies specified in clause 1 Article 2 of this Decree (hereinafter referred to as “managing agency”).

3. “ministerial or provincial data portal” means a focal point which offers access to online information and data for the purposes of publishing open data and providing information on data sharing of regulatory bodies within a Ministry or province; provides documents, services, tools and applications for processing and exploiting data published by regulatory bodies within such Ministry or province.

4. “public administrative service” means a not-for-profit service related to law enforcement, which is provided by a regulatory body to organizations and individuals in the form of legally valid documents or notifications of performance results in the domains under management of that regulatory body.

Each public administrative service is associated with one or more administrative procedure(s) to handle a specific affair related to an organization or individual.

5. “online public service” of a regulatory body means a public administrative service or another service electronically provided by a regulatory body to organizations and individuals.

6. “subjects participating in transactions” include regulatory bodies, organizations and individuals participating in transactions of online public services.

7. “non-interactive electronic form” means a form serving administrative procedures (application form, declaration form) formatted and stored as an electronic file for downloading and filling out such form.

8. “interactive electronic form” is a form serving administrative procedures which is presented in the form of a computer application (usually in the form of an application on a website) so as for organizations and individuals to provide and exchange information and data when using online public services of regulatory bodies.

9. “online public services and communication channel” of a regulatory body means an online communication channel defined and managed by a regulatory body to control the provision of online information and online public services to organizations and individuals.

10. “digital Government service rating system” means a system developed by the Ministry of Information and Communications in order to measure, evaluate, monitor and manage the provision and effectiveness of online information and public services of regulatory bodies.

11. “metadata” means information describing properties of such data as content, format, quality, conditions and other specifications in order to facilitate data search, access, management and storage.

12. “public certification portal” which is developed by the Ministry of Information and Communications means an information system connected to public certification authorities and Government’s specialized certification authorities.