Chapter III
REGULATIONS AND GUIDANCE ON MANAGEMENT AND USE OF IMAGE DATA FROM CAMERAS FITTED TO AUTOMOBILES INTENDED FOR TRANSPORT BUSINESS
Article 8. Technical requirements and guidelines for fitting cameras to automobiles
1. Every transport business is required to fit cameras to automobiles intended for transport business as prescribed in Clause 2 Article 13 and Clause 2 Article 14 of the Decree No. 10/2020/ND-CP. Cameras fitted to an automobile (hereinafter referred to as “auto cameras”) shall comply with the following technical requirements:
a) They must be labeled in accordance with regulations of law when sold on the market and subject to inspection by an agency managing and controlling quality of products and goods;
b) They must be capable of recording and storing videos, protecting data against power outage, preventing data from being lost, deleted or changed during the storage period; transmitting image data to the server for monitoring, management and storage purposes; notifying active status and status indicating data transmission. If the transmission signal is lost, the cameras must have the ability to store and re-transmit data to the server as soon as the transmission line is reactivated;
c) The auto camera video format must be MP4 or H.264 or H.265 and contain at least the following information: auto’s license plate, location (coordinate) and time; videos must be stored on a camera’s memory card or hard drive with a minimum of 10 frames per second and a minimum resolution of 720p. Images stored on cameras must be readily visible under all lighting conditions (including at night);
d) Image data extracted from all auto cameras must be transmitted with a transmitting frequency of 12 - 20 times per hour during auto's operation (equivalent to 3 - 5 minutes per data transmission) to the transport business. The format of images transmitted to the server must be .JPG and the minimum image resolution must be 640x480 pixel;
dd) Data recorded and stored on auto cameras and server of the transport business must not be deleted or changed during the storage period in accordance with regulations.
2. Every transport business shall decide the location and number of cameras fitted to its automobiles to ensure that all images of drivers on an automobile, automobile’s passenger compartment and doors. Cameras must be fitted to an automobile without illegally interfering in or changing the recording. The transport business shall post the instruction manual in a noticeable place. Information to be posted includes:
a) Phone number and contact address of the camera fitting service provider;
b) Active status of the cameras;
c) Guidelines for connecting cameras with computes or with data readers.
3. Transport businesses and drivers are not allowed to use technical measures, peripheral equipment and other measures to interfere in the camera operation, jam or scramble GPS and GSM or falsify auto camera’s data.
Article 9. Regulations on provision of image data from auto cameras
1. Image data from auto cameras must be transmitted to the server of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam within 02 minutes since data is transmitted to the transport business’s server. If the transmission line interrupts, both old and new data shall be transmitted simultaneously when the transmission line resumes.
2. Data provided is divided into 02 types, including data identifiers and image data from the auto cameras.
a) Data identifiers includes names of the transport businesses; name of the Department of Transport (that issues the transport business license); license plates; payload (number of seats or permitted weight of goods transported), type of business; full names of drivers and number of their driver’s license. This type of data must be connected to image data.
b) Image data must be continuously updated in chronological order and at least the following information about such image data must be available: number of the driver’s license, license plate, location (GPS coordinate) and time.
3. Format of information about image data:
a) Number of the driver’s license is the number written on the driver’s license of the driver;
b) The license plate shall be written immediately, regardless of capital letters and lowercase letters and not be composed of special characters. For example: 30E00555;
c) Location (Coordinate) of the automobile: Decimal Degree, WGS84 (longitude, latitude);
d) Time: Unix time, in Vietnam time zone.
4. The data transmission protocol shall be published by the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam.
5. The server of the unit transmitting data and server of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam must be synchronized to national standard time using NTP (Network Time Protocol).
Article 10. Regulations on exploitation and use of image data from auto cameras
1. The exploitation of data from auto cameras shall comply with regulations of law on information technology and other relevant regulations of law.
2. Information and data from auto cameras shall be used to serve state management of transport and management of drivers and vehicles of transport businesses, and provided to police authorities (Traffic Police Department, Traffic Police Divisions, Railway and Road Traffic Police Divisions, Road Traffic Police Divisions of provinces and central-affiliated cities) and transport authorities (Ministry of Transport, Directorate for Roads of Vietnam and Departments of Transport) to serve state management, inspection and imposition of penalties for violations as prescribed by law and performance of other tasks to maintain traffic order and safety;
3. Online information and data on database from cameras must be protected in accordance with regulations of law on information security and other relevant regulations of law.
4. Agencies and units granted access to image data from cameras of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam shall keep confidentiality of user names and information in accordance with regulations and exploit and use data for management within their jurisdictions.
Article 11. Responsibilities of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam
1. Install, manage, upgrade and maintain hardware, software and data transmission lines to receive, store, exploit and use image data from auto cameras in accordance with regulations from July 01, 2021.
2. Provide usernames for data transmission to transport businesses or service providers hired or authorized by transport businesses.
3. Establish protocols in order for units to transmit data to the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam.
4. Exploit and use image data from cameras via software of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam to serve state management, inspection and imposition of penalties for violations against regulations on transport nationwide.
5. Grant access to image data from cameras to the Ministry of Transport, Traffic Police Department, Traffic Police Divisions, Railway and Road Traffic Police Divisions, Road Traffic Police Divisions of provinces and central-affiliated cities and Departments of Transport to serve state management, inspection and imposition of penalties for violations as prescribed by law and performance of other tasks to maintain traffic order and safety.
6. Deploy officials to monitor and operate software, and ensure smooth operation of systems during operation and use thereof.
7. Store data on violations involving vehicles and drivers on software of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam for 03 years; maintain confidentiality and security of data.
8. Request Departments of Transport to impose penalties for violations committed by drivers and transport businesses within provinces.
Article 12. Responsibilities of Departments of Transport
1. Deploy officials to monitor, exploit and use image data from cameras on software of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam or of local transport businesses to serve state management, inspection and imposition of penalties for regulations on transport business within provinces.
2. Inspect, update and compare information to ensure accuracy of data transmitted by transport businesses to the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam, including names of Departments of Transport; names of transport businesses; license plates; payload (number of seats or permitted weight of goods transported); type of business and number of vehicles required to be fitted with cameras as prescribed.
3. Request transport businesses under their management to impose penalties for violations committed by drivers.
Article 13. Responsibilities of transport businesses
1. Comply with regulations set forth in Clause 5 Article 34 of the Decree No. 10/2020/ND-CP.
2. Install, manage and maintain data processing hardware and software and transmission lines in such a way that they are connected, transmit data to and are compatible with data receiving software of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam;
3. Accurately, sufficiently and promptly transmit data as prescribed in Point b Clause 2 Article 9 hereof to the server of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam.
4. Deploy officials to monitor and exploit data from the camera image data processing software of transport businesses for the purposes of management, warning and imposition of penalties for violations; inspect accuracy of information about license plates, payload (number of seats or permitted weight of goods transported), number of driver’s licenses and type of business of vehicles under management of transport businesses.
5. Delegate responsibilities for management, monitoring, exploitation and use of data to relevant individuals and departments as prescribed; promptly impose penalties for drivers violating rules of transport businesses.
6. Directly implement regulations specified in Clauses 1, 2 and 3 of this Article or hire a service provider to do so under a contract.
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