THE GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No.11/2006/ND-CP
Hanoi, January 18, 2006
 
 
DECREE
PROMULGATING THE REGULATION ON PUBLIC CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND COMMERCIAL PROVISION OF PUBLIC CULTURAL SERVICES
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government dated December 25, 2001;
At the proposal of the Minister of Culture and Information,
 
DECREES:
Article 1.
To promulgate together with this Decree the Regulation on public cultural activities andcommercial provision of public cultural services.
Article 2.
The Minister of Culture and Information shall be responsible for guiding the implementation of this Decree.
Article 3.
This Decree takes effect 15 days after its publication in CONG BAO and replaces the Regulation on circulation of and trading in films, video tapes anddiscs, music tapes and discs; sale andrent of publications; cultural activities and cultural services in public places; advertisement, writing and placement of billboards, issued together with the Government's Decree No. 87/CP dated December 12, 1995, on enhancing management of cultural activities and cultural services and stepping up the fight against serious social evils.
Article 4.
Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of Government-attached agencies, and presidents of provincial-level People's Committees shall have to implement this Decree.
 
 
ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT
PRIME MINISTER



Phan Van Khai
 
REGULATION
ON PUBLIC CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND PROVISION OF PUBLIC CULTURAL SERVICES
(Promulgated together with the Governments Decree No. 11/2006/ND-CP dated January 18, 2006)
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.
Public cultural activities and provision of public cultural services must aim to build an advanced culture imbued with national identity; educate the population in healthy lifestyles and cultured manners; inherit and promote the tradition of humanism, sentimental attachment, andfine customs and habits; raise the aesthetic knowledge and level and enrich the spiritual life of the people; check the invasion of and do away with cultural products with harmful contents; contribute to promoting national socio-economic development.
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