Chương III Thông tư 06/2024/TT-BTTTT : Tổ chức thực hiện

Chapter III

IMPLEMENTATION

Article 9. Implementation

1. Any foreign e-signature authentication service provider that was recognized in Vietnam shall, after each year of operation, submit a Technical audit report and Report on service provision in Vietnam within the reporting period to the Ministry of Information and Communications. These reports must be submitted within the first 30 days of the next year of operation. The results of the Technical audit report and operational status report are the basis for the Ministry of Information and Communications to consider:

a) continuing recognition if the results of the audit report of the year of operation meet the technical standards and regulations on e-signatures and e-signature certificates according to application Vietnamese laws or recognized international standards or international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a signatory.

b) terminating recognition under decisions of the Ministry of Information and Communications if the results of the audit report of the year of operation fail to meet the technical standards and regulations on e-signatures and e-signature certificates according to application Vietnamese laws or recognized international standards or international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a signatory.

2. Foreign e-signature authentication service providers that were recognized in Vietnam shall:

a) Provide services in a manner that ensures the right subjects, scope and compliance with regulations on issuance, revocation and suspension of e-signature certificates for subscribers and is similar to provide public digital signature authentication services in Viet Nam.

b) Provide national electronic authentication service providers with information on the number of e-signature certificates provided in Vietnam that are valid, suspended, or revoked; Subscribers’ information and proofs of subscribers’ information in the providers’ centralized database that have been collated, authenticated, entered, stored, and managed in accordance with legal regulations to serve state management in terms of e-signature authentication services.

3. Organizations and individuals using foreign e-signatures and foreign e-signature certificates that were recognized in Vietnam have the following responsibilities:

a) Use them in a manner that ensures the right scope and purposes specified in clause 3 Article 26 of the Law on Electronic Transactions.

b) Have the same rights and responsibilities as those of subscribers using public digital signature authentication services in using foreign e-signatures and foreign e-signature certificates that were recognized in Vietnam.

Article 10. Transition clauses

Foreign digital signature service providers and foreign digital certificates that were recognized in Vietnam according to Decree No. 130/2018/ND-CP dated September 27, 2018 of the Government are allowed to continue operating and being used until the end of the recognition period.

Article 11. Effects

This Circular comes into force from August 15, 2024, excluding the regulations in Article 10 hereof./.