| THE MINISTRY OF POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ------------ | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom – Happiness -------------- |
| No. 07/2004/CT-BBCVT | Hanoi, July 19, 2004 |
DIRECTIVE
ON ENHANCING THE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC INTERNET AGENTS
Over the recent years, Vietnam's Internet has witnessed a fast development and exerted positive impacts on various aspects of the national socio¬economic life, thus actually bringing about great efficacies and creating favorable conditions for and effectively supporting the open-door and proactive international economic integration policies of the Party and the State. Together with the general development of Internet, public Internet agents have also actively contributed to the universalization of Internet services to people of all strata. However, besides positive aspects of this mode of service provision, many public Internet access spots, which are providing Internet services in form of Internet service agents, have failed to comply with the law provisions on Internet management, letting users arbitrarily access unhealthy information which may cause harms to the political security, social order and safety and national cultural identity of Vietnam.
In order to enhance the management of activities of public Internet agents in strict compliance with the provisions of the Government's Decree No. 55/2001 / ND-CP of August 23, 2001 on management, provision and use of Internet services, thus minimizing negative phenomena which may occur in Internet agency activities, the Minister of Post and Telematics hereby instructs as follows:
