According to the regulations on the items included in the dossier relating to practice permits (clause 4 Article 16, clause 5 Article 17, clause 5 Article 18 and clause 5 Article 19 of the Enterprise Law; Article 14, 15 Decree 88/2006/ND-CP), Article 6 Decree 139/2007/ND-CP dated 05/9/2007 providing guidelines on the subjects who have to submit the legitimate copies of the practice permits, the following regulations shall be observed:
1. For an enterprise doing business in sectors/lines in which the laws requires the Director of the enterprise or the head of the business unit to have a practice permit, than the Director of the enterprise or the head of the business unit must obtain practice permits.
2. For the enterprise doing business in sectors/lines that the law requires the Director of the enterprise and others to have practice permits then the Director of the enterprise with specialized legislations must obtain practice permit;
3. for the enterprise doing business in sectors/lines that the law does not require the Director or the head of the business unit to have practice permits then at least one professional officer in accordance with specialized legislations must have a practice permit;
4. if some stipulations of the specialized legislations on sectors/lines of business which require practice permits according to the following 3 types:
(i) the one that requires the director (or the head of the enterprise) to have practice permits, e.g. the following certificates:
- practice permits to conduct business in relics, antiques, and national precious items
- practice permits for services of industrial property representative (in case of no authorization)
- Certificate of production, processing and packaging insecticides
- Practice permits for sauna and pasteurization
- Practice permits for trading in insecticides.
- Practice permits in private health consultation and treatment
- Practice permits in private traditional medicine
- Legal practice permits for lawyer's offices and law firms (for One-member Limited Liabilities Companies)
(ii) the sectors/lines requiring both the director and others (management officers) to have practice permits, e.g. the following certificates:
- Auditor certificates
- Legal practice permits for legal partnerships
(iii) the sectors/lines only requiring others to have practice permits (not the director or the head of the enterprise), e.g. the following certificates:
- practice permits for veterinary health care
- practice permits for supervision of project construction
- practice permits of engineers
- practice permits of architects
- practice permits for lawyers - for law firms (Limited Liabilities Companies with 2 or more members)
- practice permits in pharmacy
- practice permits in brokerage of real estate
- certificate of real estate evaluation
