18. Sector: -
Sub-sector: Traditional Markets
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to traditional markets.
Existing Measure: -
19. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to securities to be listed or listed on a stock exchange and any matter relating to the acquisition of interests in, take-overs of, and mergers of a public-listed company.
Existing Measure:
- Law on Securities
- Ordinance on Foreign Exchange Control
- Decree No. 155/2020/ND-CP dated 31/12/2020
20. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure conferring rights or privileges to the socially, economically and geographically disadvantaged groups and ethnic minorities.
Existing Measure: -
21. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to the establishment of commercial presence of foreign enterprises and investors in Viet Nam in the form of branch.
Existing Measure: -
22. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to national defence and security.
Existing Measure: -
23. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to the defence industry.
Existing Measure:
- Ordinance on Defence Industry dated 26/01/2008 and its implementing regulations.
24. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to weapon, explosives and supporting tools.
Existing Measure:
- Law on Management and use of weapons, explosives and supporting tools
25. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to the renewable energy and atomic energy.
Existing Measure:
- Law on Atomic Energy
- Decree No. 31/2021/ND-CP dated 26/03/2021
- Decision No. 2068/QD-TTg dated 25/11/2015
26. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to river ports, sea ports and airports.
Existing Measure:
- Lawn Viet Nam Civil Aviation
- Viet Nam Maritime Code
27. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to cultural heritage, belief and religion.
Existing Measure:
- Law on Cultural Heritage
- Law on Belief and Religion
28. Sector : Mining and Quarrying
Sub-sector : Non-metallic minerals and minerals as common construction materials
Level of Government : All levels
Obligations Concerned : National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description : Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt any measure relating to the above sub-sector, except processing of non-metallic minerals (5), and minerals as common construction material.
Existing Measure : Law on Mineral
29. Sector: -
Sub-sector: Publishing, Printing, Press, News-gathering Agencies, Mass Media, Radio and Television Broadcasting, in any form
Level of Government: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to the above sub-sectors.
Existing Measure:
Decree No. 31/2021/ND-CP dated 26/03/2021
30. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt any measure relating to requirements on transfer of technology.
Existing Measure
31. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Royalty
Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to requirements on royalty relating to health, taxation, national defence and security, public interest.
Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to requirements on royalty when Viet Nam holds shares, interest or benefits in a person who is a party to the license contract, under which the royalty is related.
Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to requirements on royalty under a license contract, between or among related parties (6).
Existing Measure
32. Sector : All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Government : All levels
Obligations Concerned : National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors
Description : Viet Nam reserves the rights to adopt or maintain any measure in relation to the employment of expatriates. Restrictions (7) may be imposed on the number or ratio, minimum wages, duration and type of expatriates employed.
Existing Measure :
- Labour Code
- Law on Enterprises
33. Sector: All Sectors
Sub-sector: -
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to investment in all services sectors and sub-sectors.
Existing Measure: -
34. Sector: -
Sub-sector : Manufacture of spacecraft or parts thereof
Level of Government : All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description : Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to investment in the above- mentioned sub-sectors.
Existing Measure: -
35. Sector: -
Sub-sector: Space transport of freights or passengers
Level of Govemment: All levels
Obligations Concerned: National Treatment. Senior Management and Board of Directors. Prohibition of Performance Requirements
Description: Viet Nam reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to investment in the above-mentioned sub-sectors.
Existing Measure: -
ANNEX 3. SCHEDULE OF RESERVATIONS AND NON-CONFORMING MEASURES FOR INVESTMENT AND SERVICES. AUSTRALIA
LIST A. EXPLANATORY NOTES
1. This List A sets out, pursuant to Article 12 (Schedules of Non-Conforming Measures) of Chapter 8 (Trade in Services) and Article 13 (Reservations and Non- Conforming Measures) of Chapter 11 (Investment), Australia's existing measures that are not subject to some or all of the obligations imposed by: