STORAGE PLACES FOR SEIZED OR CONFISCATED MATERIAL EVIDENCES MUST SATISFY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION CONDITIONS
On October 3, 2013, the Government promulgated Decree No. 115/2013/ND-CP providing the management and preservation of administrative violation material evidences and vehicles which are temporarily seized or confiscated according to administrative procedures. Remarkable contents provide regulations on temporary storage places for temporarily seized or confiscated material evidences and vehicles, which must ensure fire and explosion prevention and fighting and satisfy environmental protection conditions defined by the Ministry of Public Security.
Simultaneously, the Decree also raise responsibility of those who manage and preserve temporarily seized or confiscated material evidences and vehicles. Accordingly, persons issuing decisions on temporary seizure or confiscation of material evidences and vehicles shall manage and preserve temporarily seized or confiscated material evidences and vehicles. In case material evidences and vehicles are lost, sold, fraudulently exchanged, damaged or have their parts lost or replaced, persons issuing decisions on temporary seizure or confiscation of material evidences and vehicles shall pay compensations and be handled in accordance with law. Persons directly managing and preserving material evidences and vehicles shall take responsibility before law and persons issuing seizure or confiscation decisions for the management and preservation of material evidences and vehicles. Funds for the management and preservation of temporarily seized or confiscated material evidences and vehicles cover expenses for construction, repair, expansion or upgrading of physical foundations or hiring of places for temporarily storage; expenses for procurement of equipment and facilities necessary for the management, preservation, transportation, handover, receipt and inspection of temporarily seized or confiscated material evidences and vehicles; expenses for making announcements in the mass media; expenses for the disposal of temporarily seized or confiscated material evidences and vehicles which are no longer usable, and other expenses as prescribed by law.
This Decree takes effect on November 18, 2013.
