TO SIMPLIFY THE CRITERIA OF ONLINE GAMES SERVICE
On November 07, 2018, the Government issues the Decree No. 150/2018/ND-CP on amending certain Decrees on investment and business requirements, and administrative procedures in the information and communications sector.
This new Decree has abrogated a number of criteria of online games service.
To be specific:
A dossier of application for a G1 online games service license does not require: A written certification of the use of a lawful domain name for an international domain name; The plan to use Internet resources as before.
This Decree also shortens the time for issuance, re-issuance, and extension of permits for the establishment of representative offices in Vietnam of foreign publishers and issuers of foreign publications to 20 days instead of 30 days.
Within 03 working days, since an application submitted through the Internet or postal service is found incomplete or contains incorrect forms of documents, the Ministry of Information and Communications shall inform and instruct the applicant to modify the application either by telephone, email or fax.
This Decree takes effect on December 24, 2018.
