THE PRIME MINISTER

Directive No. 17/CT-TTg of August 9, 2013, strengthening management and control of the import of technologies, machinery and equipment by enterprises
Import of technologies, machinery and equipment to serve production and business operations is necessary and constitutes a frequent activity of enterprises in all sectors. Recently, besides enterprises that have performed this activity in a proper manner, there remain some enterprises, including economic groups and state corporations that have imported old, obsolete and inferior-quality machinery and equipment which fail to meet production and business requirements, leading to higher production cost, causing environmental pollution and reducing competitiveness of enterprises.
The main reason for this situation is that some enterprises have failed to comply with the law on investment and bidding in the course of import of technologies, machinery and equipment; there remain many limitations in the examination, supervision and mechanism of coordination among agencies in state management of the import of technologies, machinery and equipment.
In order to strengthen the effective management and control and promptly rectify the import of technologies, machinery and equipment by enterprises, especially economic groups and state corporations in implementing the Scheme on restructuring of state enterprises, focusing on economic groups and state corporations during 2011-2015, approved under Decision No. 929/QD-TTg of July 17, 2012, the Prime Minister instructs as follows:
1. Enterprises shall strictly comply with the law on investment, bidding, commerce, technology transfer, product and goods quality, etc., in the import of technologies, machinery and equipment to create fixed assets for their production and business.
2. The import of technologies, machinery and equipment must ensure conformity with the requirements set forth the national strategy on goods import and export, national strategy on scientific and technological development, master plans on socio-economic development of localities and regions in each period, master plans on sectoral development, and must satisfy technical and goods quality requirements of investment projects approved by competent agencies.
3. Dossiers of application for investment certificates and dossiers of investment projects must have description and explanation of technologies enclosed with the list of machinery and equipment expected to be imported with main technical parameters and features and be approved by competent agencies before importation.
4. For technologies, machinery and equipment under EPC contracts which have a content on technology transfer, such content must be arranged into a separate section or an annex enclosed with a list of machinery and equipment with technical parameters and features as required, sources and origins, year of manufacture, used or brand new stage of machinery and equipment.