(Postal services business licenses)

Legal bases:

• Law on post 2010;
• Decree 47/2011/ND-CP regulating detailed execution several contents of Law on Post.

Contents:

According to clause 1 Article 21 Law on Post: “Any letter service provider that has a recipient address for a single letter weighing up to 2 kilograms (kg) must possess a postal service business license (below referred to as postal license) granted by a competent state agency in charge of post.” So, when falling in this case, an enterprise must implement procedures to be granted the license according to the following contents:

1. Conditions to be granted the Postal Services Business License (Article 21 Law on Post 2010; Article 5 Decree 47/2011/ND-CP)

• Having a business registration certificate for postal activities or an investment certificate in the post sector:
• Being financially capable and staffed with personnel suitable to its business plan for business lines subject to licensing;
• Having a feasible business plan compliant with regulations on postage rates and quality of postal services;
• Devising measures to assure information security and safety for humans, postal articles and postal networks.
• For case of supply of postal services in provincial or inter-provincial scope, enterprises must have the minimum capital of VND 02 billions;
• For case of supply of international postal services, enterprises must have the minimum capital of VND 05 billions.

2. Dossier for the grant of postal license (Article 6 Decree 47/2011/NĐ-CP)

Documents of request for issuance of postal license will be made into 03 sets, including 01 original and 02 copies. Enterprise will be responsible for seal by itself and accuracy of these two duplicates.

Documents of request for issuance of postal license consist of:

• Application for postal license;
• A copy of the Certificate of Business registration on postal activities or certificate of investment in postal activities in Vietnam of enterprises which is sealed for confirmation and taken responsibility for accuracy of copied documents by self-enterprise;
• The charter of organization and operation of enterprise (if any);
• Business projects;
• Form of contract on supply and use of postal services in line with provision of law on post;
• Form of icon, label, particular symbol or elements in system of enterprise identification which are indicated on postal articles (if any);
• Price table of postal service charges in line with provision of law on post;
• Quality standards of postal service published for application in line with provisions of law on post;
• Regulations on the limit liability to pay compensation in case of arising damages, process of settling complaints of customers, time limit of settling complaints in line with provisions of law on post; 
• Agreements with other enterprises, foreign partners in Vietnamese, for case of cooperation to supply one, a few or all stages of postal services being requested for license; 

Documents being consular legalized proving the legal status of foreign partners in some special cases as above

3. Submitting methods: Direct or through a post office.

4. Place to submit:

• Department of Information and Communication: postal services supplies in scale of a province.
• Ministry of Information and Communication: postal services supplies in interprovincial and international scale

5. Term of the grant: 30 days from the day receiving the relevant dossier.

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