Legal Newsletter Issue No.07, July 2020

Dear Valued Customers and Partners,

As usual, GV Lawyers is pleased to introduce you Legal Newsletter Issue No. 07, July 2020, including the following principal contents:

To begin with the Newsletter, we would like to review some remarkable legal information with the following contents:

Guidance on procurement bidding under the CPTPP
Novelties on licensing electricity activities
Novelties on duty-free business
Novelties on sanctioning administrative violations in the activities of business and production and trade in counterfeit goods, banned goods and protection of consumers’ interests

In the section “Articles”, we would like to introduce an article of Lawyer Le Quang Vy & Lawyer Nguyen Thi Hang titled “What do authors benefit from when EVFTA comes into effect?” posted on the website Vietnam Online Lawyers. In this article, the authors focused on

researching and discussing prominent provisions related to Vietnam’s Intellectual Property Law and EVFTA’s commitment to intellectual property protection in general and Copyright, Related Rights in particular under treatment of most-favored-nation status.

Furthermore, in the part “Reading for you”, we also share and update the news and latest useful information for your reference including:

Beware of the legal risks of e-mail contracts
Responding appropriately to legal risks posed by the Covid-19 pandemic
Some additions to be given to clarify the contents of the condotel sale and purchase contract

In the part “Answers to Queries “, we quote some remarkable contents to promptly resolve the problems for individuals and enterprises based on the written response from the competent state agencies, with the following contents: