This Decree prescribes principles, processes and procedures for application of measures to enforce the decision to impose administrative penalties or the decision to impose administrative remedies instead of administrative penalties (hereinafter referred to as enforcement), responsibility for compliance and provision of security for compliance with enforcement decisions.

An affected Vietnamese or foreign person or entity subject to an administrative penalty that has not voluntarily complied with the decision to impose an administrative penalty by the stipulated deadlines, the deadline for postponement of compliance with that decision or the prescribed deadline for compliance with the decision to impose an administrative remedy.

Where otherwise prescribed by any international treaty of which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is the member state, such international treaty shall prevail.

This Decree shall enter into force from December 28, 2013 and replace the Government’s Decree No. 37/2005/ND-CP dated March 18, 2005 on procedures for application of measures to enforce administrative penalties.

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