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THE
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No.
72/2018/QH14
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Hanoi,
November 12, 2018
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RESOLUTION
RATIFICATION OF COMPREHENSIVE AND PROGRESSIVE AGREEMENT FOR
TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (CPTPP) AND RELEVANT DOCUMENTS
THE
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Pursuant
to the Constitution of Socialist Republic of Vietnam;
Pursuant
to the Law on International treaties No. 108/2016/QH13;
At the
request of the President in Proposal No. 05/TTr-CTN dated document 23, 2018 on
ratification of Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific
Partnership (CPTPP) and relevant documents;
In
consideration of the Government’s Report No. 522/BC-CP dated October 24, 2018
on description of CPTPP and relevant documents; Report No. 2905/BC-UBDN14 dated
October 30, 2018 of Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly and
comments of the National Assembly delegates,
RESOLVES
THAT:
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Comprehensive
and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is signed on
March 08, 2018 in Santiago of Chile, and relevant documents are ratified. The
whole text of CPTPP is provided in Appendix 01 hereof.
Article 2. Application of CPTPP
The
entire content of CPTPP is applicable; the directly applicable regulations of
CPTPP are specified in Appendix 02 hereof.
Article 3. Organization of CPTPP implementation
1. The
Government, the People’s Supreme Court, the People’s Supreme Procuracy,
relevant organizations shall review the bills in Appendix 3 and other
legislative documents in order to propose timely amendments, ensure uniformity
of the legal system and adherence to CPTPP commitments.
2. The
Prime Minister shall consider approving and directing relevant central and
local organizations to execute their plans for CPTPP implementation; focus on
human resources development to make the best use of the opportunities and
benefits of CPTT; develop and implement preventative measures against negative
effects that may occur during implementation of CPTPP; spread information about
CPTPP to raise awareness of the political system, businesses and the people of
Vietnam’s accession to CPTPP.
3. The
Government shall direct relevant ministries to complete procedures for
ratification of CPTPP and notify its date of entry into force for Vietnam.
Article 4. Supervision
The National Assembly, Standing Committee of the National
Assembly, Ethnicity Council, other committees of the National Assembly, the
National Assembly delegates shall supervise the implementation of this
Resolution.
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PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan
APPENDIX 1
FULL TEXT OF CPTPP AND RELEVANT DOCUMENTS
(Enclosed with the National Assembly’s Resolution No. 72/2018/QH14 dated
November 12, 2018)
(The
electronic file can be downloaded from http://dbqh.na.gov.vn/A16.08_HIEP_DINH_CPTPP/)
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CPTPP COMMITMENTS APPLICABLE WHEN CPTPP ENTERS INTO FORCE FOR
VIETNAM
(Enclosed with the National Assembly’s Resolution No. 72/2018/QH14 dated
November 12, 2018)
No.
Directly
applicable regulations of CPTPP
Implementation
time
1
Tariff
schedules in Appendix of Chapter 2 of CPTPP.
Entry
into force of CPTPP
2
Article
1.3 Section B of Chapter 1:
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Entry
into force of CPTPP
3
Article
1.3 Section B of Chapter 1:
“remanufactured good means a good classified in HS[1] Chapters 84 through 90 or under
heading 94.02 except goods classified under HS headings 84.18, 85.09, 85.10,
and 85.16, 87.03 or subheadings 8414.51, 8450.11, 8450.12, 8508.11, and
8517.11, that is entirely or partially composed of recovered materials and:
(a) has a similar life expectancy and performs the same as or similar to such
a good when new; and (b) has a factory warranty similar to that applicable to
such a good when new”
Entry
into force of CPTPP
4
Article
2.21 of Chapter 2 on Agricultural Export Subsidies:
No
Party shall adopt or maintain any export subsidy on any agricultural good
except the measures mentioned in Article 10 of WTO Agreement on Agriculture
Entry
into force of CPTPP
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Article
2.26 of Chapter 2 on Agricultural Safeguards.
Originating agricultural goods from any Party shall not be
subject to any duties applied by a Party pursuant to a special safeguard
taken under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture
Entry
into force of CPTPP
6
Article
3.10 of Chapter 3 on accumulation.
Full accumulation is permitted, which means accumulation of the
added value of non-originating materials and value of the originating product.
Entry
into force of CPTPP
7
Point a and Clause 1 Article 3.23 Chapter 3 on Waiver of
Certificate of Origin
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Entry
into force of CPTPP
8
Clause
12 Article 7.13 of Chapter 7 on Transparency
There
must be an interval of more than six months between the date it publishes a final
SPS measure [2]
and the date on which the measure takes effect, unless the measure is
intended to address an urgent problem or the measure is of a
trade-facilitating nature.
Entry
into force of CPTPP
9
Article
7.14 of Chapter 7 on Emergency Measures
In case
an emergency measure is adopted, it is mandatory to review the scientific
basis of that measure within six months and make available the results of the
review to any Party on request.
Entry
into force of CPTPP
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Article
7.16 of Chapter 7 on information exchange.
The
parties shall cooperate in exchange of information relevant to SPS
Entry
into force of CPTPP
11
Part B
of Chapter 9 on investor-state dispute settlement.
Procedures
for filing and settling disputes between a State and investor of another
Party.
Entry
into force of CPTPP
12
Clause
2 to 9 Article 7.8 of Chapter 7 on equivalence.
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3. When
an importing Party receives a request for an equivalence assessment and
determines that the information provided by the exporting Party is
sufficient, it shall initiate the equivalence assessment within a reasonable
period of time.
4. When
an importing Party commences an equivalence assessment, that Party shall
promptly, on request of the exporting Party, explain its equivalence process
and plan for making the equivalence determination and, if the determination
results in recognition, for enabling trade.
5. In
determining the equivalence of a sanitary or phytosanitary measure, an
importing Party shall take into account available knowledge, information and
relevant experience, as well as the regulatory competence of the exporting
Party.
6. The
importing Party shall recognise the equivalence of a sanitary or
phytosanitary measure if the exporting Party objectively demonstrates to the
importing Party that the exporting Party’s measure:
a.
achieves the same level of protection as the importing Party’s; or
b. has
the same effect in achieving the objective as the importing[3].
7. When
an importing Party adopts a measure that recognises the equivalence of an
exporting Party’s specific sanitary or phytosanitary measure, group of
measures or measures on a systems-wide basis, the importing Party shall
communicate the measure it has adopted to the exporting Party in writing and
implement the measure within a reasonable period of time.
8. The Parties
involved in an equivalence determination that results in recognition are
encouraged, if mutually agreed, to report the outcome to the Committee.
9. If an equivalence determination does not result in recognition
by the importing Party, the importing Party shall provide the exporting Party
with the rationale for its decision.
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13
Article
1.1 of Chapter 11 on financial services.
“financial
institution of another Party” means a financial institution, including a
branch, located in the territory of a Party that is controlled by persons of
another Party.
“new financial
service” means a financial service not supplied in the Party’s territory that
is supplied within the territory of another Party, and includes any new form
of delivery of a financial service or the sale of a financial product that is
not sold in the Party’s territory.
Entry
into force of CPTPP
14
Sub-categories
of services in NCM[4]
I, II and III of CPTPP
Entry
into force of CPTPP
15
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The Parties
shall explore opportunities for further cooperation, collaboration and
information exchange between the Parties on sanitary and phytosanitary
matters of mutual interest such as trade facilitation initiatives and
technical assistance, with the goal of eliminating unnecessary obstacles to
trade between the Parties.
Entry
into force of CPTPP
APPENDIX 3
AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING LAWS UNDER SCHEDULE OF CPTPP COMMITMENTS
(Enclosed with the National Assembly’s Resolution No. 72/2018/QH14 dated
November 12, 2018)
No.
Name
Amendments
Effective
date
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2012’s
Labor Code
Group
of content 1: Trade Union – Workers’ organizations
Amend
Chapter XIII of 2012’s Labor Code on the Union towards allowing establishment
of workers’ representative organizations that do not belong to the system of
Vietnam General Confederation of Labor.
- Allow
workers to establish and joint workers’ representative organizations that do
not belong to the system of Vietnam General Confederation of Labor.
- Establish
principles on rules and procedures for establishment of registration of
workers’ representative organizations (the Government shall elaborate and
provides guidelines after being assigned by the National Assembly).
Group
of content 2: Dialogues in the workplace, collective bargaining, labor
dispute - strike
Add to
Chapter V, Chapter XIII and Chapter XIV of 2012’s Labor Code regulations on
the union, workers’ representative organizations, right to dialogues in the
workplace, settlement of labor dispute, strike, among which labor dispute
settlement involves multiple representative organizations of employee in
terms of the right to collective bargaining, etc.
Review
the 2012’s Law on union after the Labor Code is amended in order to ensure
uniformity of the legal system.
Specified
by CPTPP [5].
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2
2005’s Law on Intellectual property (amended in 2009)
Amend
Article 148: Remove conditions for registration of third party to a contract;
add regulations on legal use of trademarks by recipients of licenses as
owners, procedures for establishment, maintenance and execution of
trademarks.
Entry
into force of CPTPP
Amend
Article 130 to facilitate settlement of disputes over domain names or apply
ICANN’s Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy; impose appropriate
penalties against possession of domain names that are identical or
confusingly similar to existing trade marks for profiteering.
Amend
Clause 3 Article 80 towards using the criterion “likely to cause confusion”
or keeps Clause 3 Article 80 unchanged but clarify the exceptions to brand
owners’ right to geographical indications.
Amend
Clause 3 of Article 60 towards expansion of exceptions of novelty.
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Amend
Clause 1 Article 72: a trademark must be a visual and/or audio sign.
2 years
after entry into force of CPTPP
Amend
Article 128 to permit exclusive protection of experiment data used for
registration of agricultural chemical products.
5 years
after entry into force of CPTPP, 5 more years if Vietnam’s implementation is
not complained by any other Party
Add
regulations on: (i) assurance of availability of information and time for
patent holders to exercise their rights before the products are launched; (ii)
authority to automatically initiate border measures against exports or imports
suspected as counterfeit or pirated copyright goods when they are under
customs control.
3 years
after entry into force of CPTPP
3
2015’s
Criminal Code (amended in 2017)
Add
regulations on penalties for (i) export of counterfeit trademark goods for the
purpose of distribution; (ii) import and export of pirated copyright goods
and goods infringing related rights for the purpose of distribution; (iii)
violations that involve counterfeit packages, labels; infringement of trade
secrets; (iv) infringement of trade secrets and (v) criminal liability of
judicial persons.
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2015’s
the Criminal Procedure Code (amended in 2017)
In
Clause 1 Article 155, remove the reference to Article 226 of the 2015’s
Criminal Code that allows competent authorities to initiate criminal
prosecution against infringement of industrial property rights without
request of the victim.
3 years
after entry into force of CPTPP
5
2000’s
the Law on Insurance Business (amended in 2010)
Add
regulations on ancillary services for insurance such as risk assessment and
counseling services, support services and appraisal services.
Entry
into force of CPTPP
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2010’s Law of Food safety
Add
requirements that SPS measures in emergency must have their scientific basics
reviewed within 6 months
Entry
into force of CPTPP
7
Anti-corruption Law (to be ratified during 6th
session of the 14th National Assembly)
Expand
the subjects of corruption to the private sectors; add regulations on
prevention, discovery and actions against corruption in the private sector.
Entry
into force of CPTPP
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[1] Harmonized Commodity
Description and Coding System developed and maintained by the World Customs
Organization (WCO).
[2] sanitary or phytosanitary measure
[3] No Party shall have recourse to
dispute settlement under Chapter 28 (Dispute Settlement) for this subparagraph.
[4] Non-conformable measures
[5] In case of a dispute, Vietnam will not
incur trade penalties for 03 years reagarding all obligations and 5 years
regarding “freedom of association” and “right to collective bargaining”.