THEMINISTRY OF INDUSTRY
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom Happiness
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No.: 32/2006/QD-BCN
Hanoi, September 06, 2006
 
DECISION
ON ISSUANCE OF THE REGULATIONS ON CONDITIONS, ORDER AND PROCEDURES FOR GRANTING, AMENDING, SUPPLEMENTING, WITHDRAWAL AND MANAGEMENT USAGE OF ELECTRICITY OPERATION LICENSE
THE MINISTER OF INDUSTRY
Pursuant to Decree No. 55/2003/ND-CP on May 28, 2003 by the Government regulating functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Industry;
Pursuant to the Electricity Law of December 3, 2004;
Pursuant to Decree No. 105/2005/ND-CP of August 17, 2005 by the Government detailing and guiding the implementation of some articles of the Electricity Law;
Pursuant to Decision No. 258/2005/QD-TTg of October 19, 2005 by the Prime Minister on establishing and regulating functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Department of Electricity Regulation under Ministry of Industry;
At the request of the Director of Department of Electricity Regulation,
DECIDES:
Article 1. To issue together with this Decision the Regulation on conditions, order and procedures for granting, amending, supplementing, withdrawal and management usage of the electricity activity license.
Article 2. This Decision takes effect 15 days from the date of its publication in the official gazette and replaces the Decision No. 27/2002/QD-BCN of June 18, 2002 by the Minister of Industry on promulgating regulations on the conditions, order and procedures for granting the electricity activity permit.
Article 3. Chief of Office of the Ministry, Chief Inspector of the Ministry, the Director Generals under the Ministry, the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-affiliated cities, and other organizations or individuals engaged in electricity activities shall take responsibility for implementing this Decision./.

 

 
THE MINISTER


Hoang Trung Hai
 
PROVISIONS
CONDITIONS, ORDERS AND PROCEDURES FOR GRANT, AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENTATION, WITHDRAWAL AND MANAGEMENT OF THE USE OF THE ELECTRICITY ACTIVITY PERMIT
(Issued together with the Decision No.: 32/2006/QD-BCN of September 6, 2006 of the Minister of Industry)
Chapter 1:
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Scope and subjects of application
1. This Regulation prescribes the conditions, orders and procedures for issuance, amendment, supplementation, withdrawal and management of the use of the electricity activity permit.
2. This regulation applies to the following electricity activities:
a) Consultancy on electricity planning;
b) Consultancy on investment in electrical construction field;
c) Consultancy on supervision of construction of electricity works;
d) Electricity generation;
e) Electricity transmission;
e) Electricity distribution;
g) Electricity wholesale;
h) Electricity retail;
i) Electricity export and import.
Article 2. Cases of exemption of the permit for electricity activities
The following activities are exempt from the permit for electricity activities:
1. Consultancy on appraisal and criticism of investment projects for electricity construction;
2. Generating electricity for self-use without selling the electricity to other organizations or individuals;
3. The electricity is generated with installation capacity below 50 kW for sale to other organizations or individuals;
4. Electricity business in rural, mountainous and island areas to buy electricity from the electricity network distributed with a total capacity of transformers being less than 50 kVA to sell electricity directly to customers who use electricity in rural, mountainous, island area;
5. Dispatch of the national electricity system and operating the electricity market transactions;