Conditional business lines

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Regulations on conditional business investment industries and professions

Pursuant to Article 7 of the Law on Investment 2020, it is stipulated that conditional business investment industries and occupations are industries and occupations in which the implementation of business investment activities in that industry or occupation must meet necessary conditions for reasons of national defense, national security, social order and safety, social ethics, and community health.

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Business investment conditions for conditional business lines are stipulated in laws and resolutions of the National Assembly, ordinances and resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee, decrees of the Government and international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member. Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, People’s Councils, People’s Committees at all levels, other agencies, organizations and individuals are not allowed to issue regulations on business investment conditions.

Business investment conditions must be regulated in accordance with the above reasons and must ensure publicity, transparency, objectivity, saving time and compliance costs for investors.

Regulations on business investment conditions must have the following contents:

– Subjects and scope of application of business investment conditions;

– Forms of application of business investment conditions;

– Content of business investment conditions;

– Documents, order, and administrative procedures to comply with business investment conditions (if any);

– State management agencies and competent agencies handle administrative procedures for business investment conditions;

– Validity period of the license, certificate, certificate or other written confirmation or approval (if any).
Business investment conditions are applied in the following forms:

– License;

– Certificate;

– Document of confirmation and approval;

– Other requirements that individuals and economic organizations must meet to carry out business investment activities without requiring written confirmation from a competent authority.

Conditional business investment industries and occupations and business investment conditions for those industries and occupations must be posted on the National Business Registration Portal.

List of conditional business sectors and occupations from July 1, 2024

STT	INDUSTRIES AND OCCUPATIONS
1	Children production mark
2	Trading in support tools (including repair)
3	Trading in all kinds of fireworks, except firecrackers
4	Trading in disguised equipment and software used for audio and video recording, positioning
5	Trading in paintball guns
6	Trading in military equipment and supplies for the armed forces, military weapons, equipment, techniques, weapons, specialized military and police vehicles; components, parts, spare parts, supplies and special equipment, specialized technology to manufacture them
7	Pawn service business
8	Massage service business
9	Business Vehicle signaling equipment has the right of way
10	Security service business
11	Fire prevention and fighting service business
12	Practicing law professor
13	Notary public practice
14	Judicial expertise practice in the fields of finance, banking, construction, antiquities, relics, copyrights
15	Fighting practice asset price
16	Practicing as a bailiff
17	Practicing in managing and liquidating assets of enterprises and cooperatives during bankruptcy resolution
18	Accounting service business audit
19	Auditing service business
20	Tax procedure service business
21	Customs procedure service business quan
22	Duty-free goods business
23	Business of bonded warehouses, locations for collecting retail goods
24	Business of locations for customs procedures, gathering, inspection, and supervision quan
25	Securities trading
26	Trading in securities registration, depository, clearing and settlement services of Vietnam Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation, a market organization for trading listed securities and all types of securities other
27	Insurance business
28	Reinsurance business
29	Insurance broker, insurance support activities
30	Insurance agent
31	Price appraisal service business
32	Business lottery
33	Business of electronic games with prizes for foreigners
34	Business of credit rating services
35	Business of casinos (casino)
36	Betting business
37	Voluntary pension fund management service business
38	Gasoline business oil
39	Gas business
40	Business of commercial inspection services
41	Business of industrial explosives (including consumption activities cancel)
42	Trading in explosive precursors
43	Trading in industries and occupations that use industrial explosive materials and explosive precursors
44	Trading in explosive services mines
45	Trading in chemicals, except chemicals banned under the International Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, Use and Destruction of Chemical Weapons
46	Business alcohol
47	Trading in tobacco products, tobacco ingredients, machinery and equipment in the tobacco industry
48	Trading in food under the specialized management of the Ministry of Industry Trade
49	Commodity Exchange Activities
50	Electricity generation, transmission, distribution, wholesale, retail, specialized electricity consulting activities
51	Export rice
52	Trading in temporary import and re-export of goods subject to special consumption tax
53	Trading in temporary import and re-export of frozen foods
54	Trading in temporary import and re-export of goods List of used goods
55	Mineral trading
56	Industrial precursor business
57	Goods trading and activities directly related to purchasing activities selling goods of foreign service providers in Vietnam
58	Business by multi-level marketing method
59	E-commerce activities
60	Oil and gas activities
61	Energy audit
62	Vocational education activities
63	Vocational education quality accreditation career
64	Business of vocational skills assessment services
65	Business of technical inspection services for labor safety
66	Business of labor safety and hygiene training services activity
67	Employment service business
68	Service business of sending workers to work abroad
69	Business of voluntary drug addiction treatment, smoking cessation service, HIV/AIDS treatment, care for the elderly, people with disabilities, children
70	Labor subleasing service business
71	Road transportation business
72	Service business car warranty and maintenance
73	Manufacturing, assembling and importing cars
74	Motor vehicle inspection service business
75	Driver training service business automobile
76	Business of traffic safety examiner training services
77	Business of driving test services
78	Business of traffic safety inspection services information
79	Waterway transportation business
80	Business of services for building, converting, repairing and restoring inland waterway vehicles
81	Business of training services for crew and personnel driving inland waterway vehicles
82	Training and coaching maritime seafarers and organizing recruitment and supply of maritime seafarers
83	Cargo safety assurance service business sea
84	Sea transportation business
85	Ship towing service business
86	Import and demolition of used ships Application
87	Business of ship building, conversion, and repair services
88	Seaport operation business
89	Cargo transportation business no
90	Business of design, production, maintenance, testing services of aircraft, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers and aircraft equipment and facilities in Vietnam
91	Business of airports and airports
92	Business of aviation services at airports and airports
93	Business of operations assurance services flight
94	Trading services, professional training for aviation staff
95	Rail transport business
96	Trading in road infrastructure iron
97	Urban railway business
98	Multi-modal transport service business
99	Dangerous goods transportation service business insurance
100	Pipeline transportation business
101	Real estate business
102	Clean water business (clean water) active)
103	Architecture service business
104	Construction investment project management consulting service business
105	Construction survey service business construction
106	Business of design services, construction design verification
107	Business of construction supervision consulting services
108	Business of construction services construction works
109	Construction activities of foreign contractors
110	Business of construction investment cost management services
111	Business of construction inspection services construction
112	Business of specialized construction testing services
113	Business of apartment building management and operation services
114	Business of fire facility management and operation services burial
115	Trading in construction planning design services
116	Trading in chrysotile asbestos products of the Serpentine group
117	Trading in postal services main
118	Telecommunication service business
119	Reliable service business (Applied from date July 1, 2024)
120	Publisher’s activities
121	Printing service business, except packaging printing
122	Export distribution service business publications
123	Social network service business
124	Business of games on telecommunications networks and the Internet
125	Business of pay radio and television services
126	Business of services for setting up general electronic information pages case
127	Services of processing, recycling, repairing, renewing used information technology products on the List of used information technology products banned from import for foreign partners
128	Business of information content services on mobile telecommunications networks, networks Internet
129	Business of domain name registration and maintenance services
130	Business of data center services
131	Business of electronic identification and authentication services element
132	Business of network information security products and servicesAdditional
132a	Business of network security products and services (excluding business of network information security products and services and business of civil cryptography products and services events)
133	Trading in imported press release services
134	Trading in civil cryptographic products and services
135	Trading in devices that cause interference and disrupt communication signals mobile news
136	Activities of preschool educational institutions
137	Activities of general educational institutions
138	Activities of higher education institutions study
139	Operations of foreign-invested educational institutions, foreign educational representative offices in Vietnam, branches of foreign-invested educational institutions
140	Operations of regular educational institutions regularly
141	Specialized school activities
142	Training joint activities with foreign countries
143	Teaching quality accreditation education
144	Study abroad consulting service business
145	Aquaculture exploitation
146	Aquaculture business products
147	Business of aquatic feed, animal feed
148	Business of testing services for aquatic food, animal feed
149	Business of biological products, microorganisms, chemicals, environmental remediation agents in aquaculture and animal husbandry
150	Business of building and converting fishing vessels
151	Registering fishing vessels
152	Training and fostering ship crew fish
153	Raising and growing wild plants and animals in the Appendices of CITES and the list of endangered, precious and rare forest plants, animals and aquatic animals
154	Raising pine forest animals often
155	Export, import, re-export, transit and introduction from the sea of natural specimens of species included in the Appendices of CITES and the list of endangered, precious and rare forest plants, animals and aquatic products
156	Export, import, re-export of captive-bred, reared, and artificially cultivated specimens of species included in the Appendices of CITES and the list of endangered, precious, and rare forest plants, animals, and aquatic animals
157	Processing, trading, transporting, advertising, displaying, and storing specimens of plant and animal species included in the Appendices of the CITES Convention and the list of forest plants, Endangered, precious and rare forest and aquatic animals
158	Trading in plant protection drugs
159	Trading in services of handling objects subject to plant quarantine
160	Business Business of plant protection drug testing services
161	Business of plant protection services
162	Business of veterinary drugs, vaccines, biological products, microorganisms, chemicals used in animals y
163	Business of veterinary technical services
164	Business of animal testing and surgery services
165	Business of vaccination, disease diagnosis, and prescription services prescription, treatment, animal health care
166	Business of veterinary drug testing and testing services (including veterinary drugs, aquatic veterinary drugs, vaccines, biological products, microorganisms, chemicals used in veterinary medicine, aquatic veterinary medicine)
167	Business farm animal husbandry
168	Cattle and poultry slaughtering business
169	Food business under the specialized management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
170	Kinh Sales of quarantine and isolation services for animals and animal products
171	Fertilizer business
172	Fertilizer testing service business
173	Trading in plant varieties and animal breeds farming
174	Business of aquatic breeds
175	Business of testing services for plant varieties and livestock breeds
176	Business of testing services for aquatic breeds products
177	Trading in testing services for biological products, microorganisms, chemicals, environmental treatment substances in aquaculture and livestock farming
178	Trading in modified products gen
179	Business of medical examination and treatment services
180	Business of cosmetic surgery services
181	Business pharmaceutical
182	Cosmetic production
183	Trading in chemicals, insecticidal and antibacterial products used in the field of medical household appliances
184	Trading in medical equipment economic
185	Business of intellectual property assessment services (including assessment of copyright and related rights, assessment of industrial property and assessment of rights to plant varieties)
186	Business of services of conducting pressing work radiation
187	Business of atomic energy application support services
188	Business of conformity assessment services
189	Business of inspection, calibration and testing services measuring instruments, measurement standards
190	Business of evaluation, price appraisal and technology appraisal services
191	Business of intellectual property representation services (including industrial property representation services and plant variety rights representation services planting)
192	Film dissemination service business
193	Antiques appraisal service business
194	Project planning, construction organization and supervision service business construction of projects to preserve, renovate and restore monuments
195	Karaoke and discotheque service business
196	Travel service business conduct
197	Business of sports activities of sports enterprises and professional sports clubs
198	Providing art performance services, fashion shows, and organizing beauty and model contests
199	Trading in audio and video recordings of music, dance, and theater
200	Accommodation service business
201	Buy and sell relics, antiques, and national treasures
202	Exporting relics and antiquities that are not owned by the state, owned by political organizations or socio-political organizations; Importing cultural goods is under specialized management of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
203	Museum service business
204	Electronic game business (except electronic game business with prizes for foreigners and online video game business with prizes)
205	Business of land investigation and evaluation consulting services
206	Providing services on planning and land use planning
207	Trading in information technology infrastructure construction services, building software for land information systems
208	Providing land database construction services
209	Providing land price determination services
210	Trading in surveying and mapping services
211	Providing hydrometeorological forecasting and warning services
212	Providing underground water drilling and underground water exploration services
213	Business services of exploiting and using water resources, discharging wastewater into water sources
214	Providing basic investigation services, consulting on planning, projects, and water resource reports
215	Business of mineral exploration services
216	Mining minerals
217	Providing transportation and treatment services for hazardous waste
218	Import of scrap
219	Business of environmental monitoring services
220	Business activities of commercial banks
221	Business activities of non-bank credit institutions
222	Business activities of cooperative banks, people’s credit funds, and microfinance institutions
223	Providing payment intermediary services, providing payment services without going through customers’ payment accounts
224	Providing credit information services
225	Business activities, providing foreign exchange services of organizations other than is a credit institution
226	Gold trading
227	Printing and minting activitiesAdditional
228	Training and issuing certificates for radio operators

Note on Applying Current Legal Regulations

This article belongs to the Legal Knowledge group and is presented for reference purposes, helping readers understand the legal issue at an overview level before preparing a dossier or carrying out a transaction.

Legal regulations may vary depending on the timing, locality, type of dossier and specific circumstances. If you need to determine the exact legal basis applicable to your case, you should contact ANT Legal’s lawyers at 0966.475.966 for review and advice before proceeding.

Common Legal Risks to Note

Applying legal instruments that have been amended, supplemented or replaced.
Preparing an incomplete set of documents, materials or necessary evidence.
Misunderstanding the conditions, procedure, timeline or competent authority.
Signing, submitting a dossier or carrying out a transaction before fully assessing legal risks.

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