A FINE TO VND 30 MILLION FOR REVEALING THE STATISTICAL INFORMATION
On July 19, 2013, the Government issues the Decree No. 79/2013/ND-CP promulgating on penalties for administrative violations in statistics.
In accordance with this Decree, A fine of from 300,000 VND to 1,000,000 VND for one of the violations such as the submission of statistical survey forms, which are filled by the subjects of survey under the instructions of the surveyor (hereinafter referred to as indirect survey method), is 01 - 04 days behind schedule according to the statistical survey plan; failing to submit sufficient indirect statistical survey forms according to the statistical survey plan; failing to provide sufficient information in the survey forms according to the statistical survey plan. Or a fine of from over 1,000,000 VND to 3,000,000 VND for submitting statistical survey forms, which are filled by the subjects of survey under the instructions of the surveyor (hereinafter referred to as indirect survey method) 05 - 09 days behind schedule according to the statistical survey plan…And a fine of from 20,000,000 VND to 30,000,000 VND for revealing the statistical information associated with names and addresses of providers without their permission.
Beside above fine, the other remedial measures shall be applicable such as to invalidate the statistical reports; to suspend the statistical survey, revoke survey forms; invalidate the decision on survey and the survey plan; invalidate the voting, survey forms, and statistical survey results; to restore the restorable survey forms and survey reports and to edit the sources of the statistical information that is cited, propagated, or posted.
This Decree takes effect on September 05, 2013 and supersedes the Government's Decree No. 14/2005/ND-CP dated February 04, 2005.
