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THE GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 82/2003/ND-CP
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Hanoi, July 18,
2003
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DECREE
PRESCRIBING THE FUNCTIONS, TASKS,
POWERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of
the Government;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 30/2003/ND-CP of April 1, 2003 defining
the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of the agencies
attached to the Government;
At the proposals of the General Director of Vietnam News Agency and the
Minister of the Interior,
DECREES:
Article 1.- Position and
functions
Vietnam News Agency is
a governmental non-business agency which performs the function of a State news
agency in the publication of news and official documents of the Party and the
State, the provision of information in service of requirements of the Party's
leadership and the State's management; collects and disseminates information
through various press genres in service of the subjects inside and outside the
country that have the demands therefor; performs a number of specific tasks and
exercises a number of specific powers as the representative of the owner of
State capital portions at the State-invested enterprises under Vietnam News
Agency according to law provisions.
Vietnam News Agency is
subject to the State management over press activities by the Ministry of
Culture and Information.
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Vietnam News Agency
has the responsibility to perform the tasks and exercise the powers of the
Government-attached agencies engaged in non-business activities as prescribed
in the Government's Decree No. 30/2003/ND-CP of April 1, 2003 defining the
functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of the agencies attached
to the Government as well as the following specific tasks and powers:
1. To submit to the
Government or the Prime Minister its strategies and plannings, long-term,
five-year and annual plans as well as other important projects; to organize the
implementation of such strategies, plannings and plans after they are approved.
2. To publish news and
official documents of the Party and the State; to gather and edit news,
photographs, documents and classified documents in timely service of the
requirements of the Party’s leadership and the State's management.
3. To collect, edit
and disseminate information (news, articles, files, documents, books,
photographs, audio-visual products, multi-media products) in service of all
subjects inside and outside the country that have demands therefor according to
the provisions of the Press Law and the Publication Law.
4. When authorized by
the Prime Minister, Vietnam News Agency is allowed to announce the State's
official viewpoints on topical issues, rectify inappropriate information,
correct erroneous information or reject information with intent of distortion.
5. To participate in
performing the work of external information of the Party and the State
according to law provisions.
6. To coordinate with
the Ministry of Culture and Information in managing foreign news agencies'
sources of press information circulated on the Vietnamese territory, according
to law provisions.
7. To effect the
national archival of information documentation; to act as an information data
bank and manage national photographic files according to law provisions.
8. To coordinate with
the concerned agencies in performing the common information tasks and other
relevant tasks in service of national defense and security.
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10. To organize the
scientific research and application of scientific and technological advances
regarding news agency work and information technology in service of the news
agency and press functions.
11. To perform a
number of specific tasks and exercise a number of specific powers as the
representative of the owner of State capital portions at the State-invested
enterprises under its management according to law provisions.
12. To enter into
international cooperation according to law provisions.
13. To manage
investment and construction projects under its competence according to law
provisions.
14. To participate in
evaluating important schemes and projects within its professional operations at
the request of the Government or the Prime Minister,
15. To decide on, and
direct the implementation of, its administrative reform program according to
the objectives and contents of the State's administrative reform program
already approved by the Prime Minister.
16. To manage its
organizational apparatus and payroll; direct the implementation of wage regime
as well as preferential treatment, commendation and discipline regimes and
policies for State officials and public employees as well as laborers under its
management; to provide training and fostering on news agency and press
professional operations and techniques for State officials and public employees
under its management.
17. To manage the
assigned finance and assets, and organize the implementation of the budget
allocations and revenue amounts according to law provisions.
18. To abide by the
regime of reporting to the Government, the Prime Minister and competent State
agencies according to law provisions.
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a/ Organizations
assisting the General Director:
1. The Editorial
Secretariat;
2. The Department for
Organization and Personnel;
3. The
Planning-Finance Department;
4. The Inspection
Department;
5. The Office.
b/ Editorial
organizations:
1. The Domestic News
Department;
2. The World News
Department;
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4. The Department for
Editing and Production of Press Photos;
5. The Economic News
Department;
6. Vietnam Pictorial
Review;
7. The
Database-Documentation Center.
c/ Other
organizations:
1. The News Agency
Technical Center;
2. The Center for News
Agency International Cooperation;
3. The News Agency
Professional Fostering Center;
4. The Informatics
Center.
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Vietnam News Agency's
General Director is assigned to organize and structure Vietnam News Agency's
representative offices in Ho Chi Minh and Da Nang cities, its domestic bureaus,
the existing press editorial boards, publishing, distribution and audio-visual
establishments and other units according to law provisions.
Article 4.- Implementation
effect
This Decree takes
implementation effect 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette and
replaces the Government's Decree No. 66/1998/ND-CP of August 24, 1998 on the
functions, tasks, powers and organizational apparatus of Vietnam News Agency.
Article 5.- Implementation
responsibilities
The General Director
of Vietnam News Agency, the ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies,
the heads of the agencies attached to the Government and the presidents of the
People's Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to
implement this Decree.
ON BEHALF OF
THE GOVERNMENT
PRIME MINISTER
Phan Van Khai