Decision No. 80/2009/QD-TTg Amending and Supplementing Certain Articles of the Regulation on Building and Implementing the National Trade Promotion Program for the 2006-2010 Period issued together with Decision No. 279/2005/QD-TTg dated November 3, 2005 of the Prime Minister.

Pursuant to …;

Amending and supplementing some Articles of the Regulation on the formulation and implementation of the National Trade Promotion Program for the period 2006-2010 issued together with Decision No. 279/2005/QĐ-TTg dated November 3, 2005 of the Prime Minister.

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PRIME MINISTER

Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government dated December 25, 2001;

Considering the proposal of the Minister of Industry and Trade,

DECISION:

Article 1. Amending and supplementing Article 1, Article 3, Article 5, Article 6, Article 7, Article 8, Article 9, Article 10, Article 12, and Article 19 of the Regulation on the formulation and implementation of the National Trade Promotion Program for the period 2006-2010 (hereinafter referred to as the Program) issued together with Decision No. 279/2005/QĐ-TTg dated November 3, 2005 of the Prime Minister, specifically as follows:

1. Economic organizations conducting foreign exchange trading agency activities; economic organizations conducting foreign currency receipt and payment service provision activities; economic organizations conducting border country currency exchange agency activities.

- Clause 3: "Except for the provisions stipulated in Clause 4 of Article 8, Clauses 8 and 13 of Article 9 of this Regulation, the Prime Minister authorizes the Minister of Industry and Trade, based on the provisions of this Regulation and the current laws governing the management of trade promotion activities, to aggregate, approve, and organize the implementation of the annual National Trade Promotion Program."

2. Article 3 shall be amended and supplemented as follows:

"This Regulation applies to:

- Clause 1. The main units of the Program, including: government and non-government trade promotion organizations and industry general corporations (in cases where there is no association in the industry) that have trade promotion projects participating in the Program, which are established, reviewed, and supported for implementation according to the provisions of this Regulation.

- Clause 2. Units participating in implementing the Program, including: enterprises of all economic sectors established in accordance with current laws and trade promotion organizations."

3. Article 5 shall be amended and supplemented as follows:

- Point b Clause 2: "Having sufficient human resources, financial resources, and technical facilities to implement the Program; having a development strategy for the industry and specific development strategies for each target market; understanding the trade promotion needs of enterprises; programs led by the unit have achieved the set goals in terms of quantity and quality."

- Supplementing Clause 3: "Based on the conditions stipulated in Clause 2 of this Article, the Minister of Industry and Trade shall approve the main units of the Program. Trade promotion organizations that have performed the function of leading the Program since before 2008 do not need to go through the approval process again."

4. Article 6 is amended and supplemented as follows:

"Units participating in implementing the Program as stipulated in Clause 2 of Article 3 of this Regulation directly implement the contents of the Program's projects and are supported financially according to the provisions of this Regulation."

5. Article 7 is amended and supplemented as follows:

a. Clause 1: "Funds for implementing the Program are contributed by units participating in the Program; the State supports part of it through the main units of the Program."

b. Clause 3: "The source of funds supporting the implementation of the Program is provided from the State budget."

c. Supplementing Clause 4: "The Ministry of Finance will notify the budget allocation for the Program at the time of the annual budget notification of the Ministry of Industry and Trade."

6. Article 8 is amended as follows:

a. Clause 1: "Enterprises of all economic sectors in provinces and cities, in addition to participating in the National Trade Promotion Program through the main units of the Program stipulated in this Regulation, also have the right to participate in trade promotion activities according to the regulations and guidance of the Chairman of the People's Committee of the province or centrally-administered city, in line with the business situation in their respective localities."

b. Clause 2: "People's Committees of provinces and centrally-administered cities base this Regulation to develop trade promotion contents and levels of financial support suitable to the actual trade promotion situation in their locality and the current laws governing trade promotion activities."

c. Clause 3: "Sources of funds supporting trade promotion activities in localities are implemented directly from the local budget and other legitimate sources of finance of the locality."

d. Supplementing Clause 4: "The Minister of Industry and Trade shall consider and submit to the Prime Minister for approval trade promotion projects of localities that receive support from the central budget."

7. Article 9 is amended and supplemented as follows:

a. Clause 10: "Organizing meetings with foreign importers visiting Vietnam to purchase goods."

b. Clause 11: "Organizing international sectoral export conferences in Vietnam."

c. Clause 12: "Trade promotion activities effectively expanding export markets as stipulated in Clause 1 of Article 4 of this Regulation."

d. Clause 13: "Other trade promotion activities decided by the Prime Minister."

8. Article 10 is amended and supplemented as follows:

a. Supplementing Clause 1:

- "Supporting 100% of training and seminar costs both domestically and internationally on trade promotion for staff of government and non-government trade promotion organizations for the content stipulated in Clause 3 of Article 9 of this Regulation."

b. Clause 2:

- Supplementing Point a: "Supporting 100% of costs for publicity, promotion, and inviting guests to visit the Vietnamese booth at overseas fairs."

- Supplementing Point c: "Supporting 100% of costs for publicity, promotion, and inviting guests to visit Vietnamese trading delegations and market survey teams abroad."

- Removing Point d.

c. Supplementing Clause 5: "Supporting 100% of costs for organizing trade meetings including venue rental and decoration, equipment, interpretation services, and publicity; and travel expenses within Vietnam for foreign importers for Clause 10 of Article 9 of this Regulation."

d. Supplementing Clause 6: "Supporting 100% of costs for venue rental and decoration, equipment, interpretation services, and publicity for Clause 11 of Article 9 of this Regulation."

đ. Supplementing Clause 7: "Supporting 100% of costs for round-trip air tickets, accommodation according to current financial regulations, and booth rental fees (if applicable) through industry associations for the content stipulated in Clause 12 of Article 9 of this Regulation."

9. Article 12 shall be amended and supplemented as follows:

"Annually, based on the trade promotion budget plan notified by the Ministry of Finance, the Minister of Industry and Trade approves the National Trade Promotion Program.

Immediately after the Program is approved, based on the budget estimate and implementation schedule of the Program, the Ministry of Finance temporarily allocates funds to the main units of the Program for implementation.

The Ministry of Finance provides detailed guidelines for the temporary allocation and settlement of funds."

10. Article 19 is amended and supplemented as follows:

"The leading unit of the Program shall submit a report (in accordance with the model prescribed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade) to the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance no later than thirty days after the completion of each project; submit an annual final report evaluating the results of the Program before December 31 of each year; and simultaneously notify participating units of relevant reports."

11. In this Regulation, the term "Ministry of Trade" is amended to read "Ministry of Industry and Trade".

Article 2. This Decision takes effect from July 15, 2009.

Article 3. The Ministers of Industry and Trade, Finance, and the Heads of Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and the Chairpersons of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally governed cities are responsible for implementing this Decision./.