DECISION

PROMULGATING THE RATES OF CHARGES FOR INSPECTION OF THE TECHNICAL SAFETY AND QUALITY OF MOTORIZED VEHICLES AND ASSORTED SPECIAL-USE VEHICULAR EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY

THE MINISTER OF FINANCE

Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 86/2002/ND-CP of November 5, 2002 defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the ministries and ministerial-level agencies;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 178/CP of October 28, 1994 on the tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Finance;
Pursuant to August 28, 2001 Ordinance No. 38/2001/PL-UBTVQH on Charges and Fees; pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 57/2002/ND-CP of June 3, 2002 detailing the implementation of the Ordinance on Charges and Fees;
At the proposals of the Ministry of Communications and Transport in Official Dispatch No. 4365/BGTVT-TCKT of November 19, 2002 and of the director of the Enterprise Finance Department,

DECIDES:

Article 1.- To promulgate together with this Decision the Regulation on the rates of charges for inspection of the technical safety and quality of motorized vehicles and assorted special-use vehicular equipment and machinery, including:

1. Charges for inspection of the technical safety of motorized vehicles currently in circulation.

2. Charges for inspection of the technical safety of special-use vehicular equipment and machinery currently in circulation.

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4. Charges for inspection of the quality of components and motorized vehicles in being tested for manufacture and assembly.

5. Charge for inspection of the technical safety and quality of motorized vehicles, special-use vehicular equipment and machinery in manufacture and assembly in Vietnam.

6. Charges for inspection of the technical safety and quality of imported motorized vehicles, special-use vehicular equipment and machinery.

7. Charges for inspection of the quality of devices for checking motorized vehicles.

Article 2.- The charge rates in this Table are inclusive of value-added tax but exclusive of the fee for the granting of quality and technical safety certificates for motorized vehicles, assorted special-use vehicular equipment and machinery, and expenses for accommodation, travel and communication in service of the inspection work in places over 100 km far from the inspection offices.

Article 3.- Where an international agreement which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has signed or acceded to contains provisions different from this Table of Charges, the provisions of such international agreement shall apply.

Article 4.- The charge payers prescribed in this Decision are organizations and individuals for whom the Vietnam registry offices inspect the technical safety and quality of their motorized vehicles and assorted special-use vehicular equipment and machinery in manufacture, assembly, importation, transformation and circulation, and inspect devices used for checking motorized vehicles.

Article 5.- Several terms used in this Table of Charges are construed as follows:

1. Motorized vehicles include automobiles, tractors, motorized two-wheelers, motorized three-wheelers, mopeds and vehicles of similar kinds, including motorized vehicles used for the disabled.

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Article 6.- This Decision takes effect as from February 1, 2003 and replaces Decision No. 138/1999/QD-BVGCP of December 28, 1999 of the Government Pricing Committee on the charges for technical inspection, the charges for quality inspection of assorted equipment, construction machinery and road motorized means, and relevant guiding documents.

Article 7.- Organizations and individuals being charge payers, inspection agencies and concerned agencies shall have to implement this Decision.

FOR THE MINISTER OF FINANCE
VICE MINISTER




Tran Van Ta

THE TABLE OF THE RATES OF CHARGES FOR INSPECTION OF THE TECHNICAL SAFETY AND QUALITY OF MOTORIZED VEHICLES AND ASSORTED SPECIAL-USE VEHICULAR EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY
(Promulgated together with Decision No. 10/2003/QD-BTC of January 24, 2003 of the Minister of Finance)

I. CHARGES FOR INSPECTION OF THE TECHNICAL SAFETY OF MOTORIZED VEHICLES CURRENTLY IN CIRCULATION

1. Basic charge rates:

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Calculation unit: VND 1,000/vehicle

Ordinal number

Types of motorized vehicles

Charge rates

1

Trucks, trailer trucks (trucks + semi-trailers), of a tonnage of over 20 tons, and assorted special-use automobiles, tractors

300

2

Trucks, trailer trucks (trucks + semi-trailers), of a tonnage of between over 7 and 20 tons, and assorted special-use automobiles, tractors

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3

Trucks of a tonnage of between over 2 and 7 tons

180

4

Trucks of a tonnage of up to 2 tons

150

5

Bong sen and cong nong tractors and transport means of similar kinds

100

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Trailers, semi-trailers

100

7

Passenger cars with over 40 seats (including driver), buses

200

8

Passenger cars with between 25 and 40 seats (including driver)

180

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150

10

Cars with 9 seats or under (including driver), ambulances

120

11

Lambretta, motorized cyclos, three-wheeled

50

2. For motorized vehicles which, through inspection, fail to satisfy the technical safety and environmental protection standards, and must be maintained and/or repaired before having their sub-standard components re-inspected, the charges for subsequent inspections shall be collected as follows:

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2.2. If the re-inspection is conducted with seven days (excluding holidays as according to the prescribed regime), counting from the date of the first inspection, the charge for each re-inspection shall be equal to 50% of the rate prescribed in Table 1.

3. The charge for inspection of motorized vehicles for granting the provisional technical safety and environmental protection certificates (valid for no more than 15 days) shall be equal to 50% of the rate specified in Table 1.

4. The charge for inspection of the nature of technical expertise or quality evaluation at the requests of organizations and individuals can be negotiated but shall not exceed three times the rates specified in Table 1.

II. CHARGES FOR INSPECTION OF THE TECHNICAL SAFETY OF SPECIAL-USE
EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY CURRENTLY IN CIRCULATION

1. Basic charge rates:

Table 2

Calculation unit: VND 1,000/vehicle

Ordinal number

Types of inspected equipment

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First-time inspection

Periodical inspection

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Assorted special-use vehicular equipment and machinery

1

Bulldozers, with a capacity of between 54 and 100 horse power

240

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2

Bulldozers, with a capacity of between 101 and 200 horse power

300

240

3

Bulldozers, with a capacity of over 200 horse power

360

290

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320

260

5

Ground levelers, with a capacity of over 130 horse power

380

300

6

Scraper machines, with a capacity of up to 24 m3

360

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7

Scraper machines, with a capacity of over 24 m3

430

340

8

Steel-wheeled rollers, up to 5 tons

240

190

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280

220

10

Pneumatic-tired rollers

280

220

11

Sheep-foot rollers

240

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12

Asphalt pavers, with a capacity of up to 90 horse power

320

260

13

Asphalt pavers, with a capacity of over 90 horse power

380

300

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280

220

15

Drilling machines

360

290

16

Packing drilling machines

400

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17

Gravel stone distributors

280

220

18

Diesel-fueled pile drivers

400

320

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400

320

20

Excavators, with a shovel capacity of over 1 m3

480

380

21

Hydraulic pile pressing system

200

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22

Combined milling and screening machines up to 25 m3 /hour

300

240

23

Combined milling and screening machines over 25 m3 /hour

400

320

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380

300

25

Concrete-pumping equipment

240

190

26

Agricultural and forestry tractors joining traffic

280

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27

Asphalt-mixing stations, under 40 tons/hour

750

750

28

Asphalt-mixing stations, between 40 tons/hour and 80 tons/hour

1,000

1,000

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1,500

1,500

30

Asphalt-mixing stations, over 104 tons/hour

2,000

2,000

31

Cement concrete-mixing stations, gradation of up to 40 m3/hour

500

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Cement concrete-mixing stations, gradation of over 40 m3/hour

750

750

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Assorted lifting equipment: Lifting machines and cranes with lifting capacity

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500

500

2

Between 1 ton and 3 tons

600

600

3

Between over 3 tons and 5 tons

800

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Between over 5 tons and 7.5 tons

1,000

1,000

5

Between over 7.5 tons and 10 tons

1,500

1,500

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1,700

1,700

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Between over 15 tons and 20 tons

2,000

2,000

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Between over 20 tons and 30 tons

2,500

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Between over 30 tons and 50 tons

2,700

2,700

10

Between over 50 tons and 75 tons

3,000

3,000

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3,500

3,500

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Over 100 tons

4,000

4,000

2. When inspections show that special-use vehicular equipment or machinery fail to satisfy technical safety and environmental protection standards, and must be repaired before having their sub-standard components, the charges for subsequent inspections shall be collected as follows:

2.1. If the re-inspection is conducted no more than twice in one day (within working hours), no charge shall be collected. For special-use equipment or machinery which fail to satisfy technical safety standards through an inspection conducted in the afternoon and are re-inspected before the end of the working hours in the following morning, their re-inspection shall be regarded as being conducted within one day. For special-use equipment or machinery which are re-inspected from the third time on, the charge for each re-inspection shall be equal to 50% of the rate prescribed in Table 2.

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3. For other special-use vehicular equipment or machinery not yet prescribed in this Table of Charges, their owners and the inspecting agencies shall base themselves on the State’s regulations to reach agreement on specific inspection charges on the principle of harmonization of the two parties’ interests.

4. The charge for inspection of the nature of technical expertise or quality evaluation at the requests of organizations and individuals shall be agreed upon at a level not exceeding three times of the rate prescribed in Table 2.

III. CHARGES FOR INSPECTION OF THE TECHNICAL SAFETY AND QUALITY OF MOTORIZED VEHICLES AND SPECIAL-USE VEHICULAR MACHINERY IN TRANSFORMATION

1. Basic charge rates:

Table 3

Calculation unit: VND 1,000/vehicle

Ordinal number

Contents of transformation

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First unit delivered from workshop

The second unit on

1

Change of the use nature of motorized vehicles, special-use machinery (change of original properties thereof)

500

150

2

Change of systems and components of motorized vehicles, special-use vehicular machinery

300

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IV. CHARGES FOR INSPECTION OF THE QUALITY OF COMPONENTS AND MOTORIZED VEHICLES BEING TESTED FOR MANUFACTURE OR ASSEMBLY

1. Basic charge rates:

Table 4

Calculation unit: VND 1,000/model

Ordinal number

Description of work

Charge rates

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3,500

2

Testing of general safety requirements for assorted automobiles and trailer trucks (trucks and trailers, semi-trailers) manufactured or assembled from loose components and details

7,000

3

Testing of general safety requirements for assorted automobiles and trailer trucks (trucks and trailers, semi-trailers) newly built on the basis of automobile chassis or other kinds of automobiles

5,000

4

Testing of frames or engines used for automobiles, semi-trailers and trailers

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Testing of frames or engines used for motorcycles and mopeds

500

6

Testing of other components

300

2. The charge rate prescribed at Point 6 of Table 4 for testing many models of the same kind must not exceed VND 1,000,000/kind.

V. CHARGES FOR INSPECTION OF THE TECHNICAL SAFETY AND QUALITY OF MOTORIZED VEHICLES AND SPECIAL-USE VEHICULAR EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY IN MANUFACTURE OR ASSEMBLY IN VIETNAM

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Table 5

Calculation unit: % of product sale price

Ordinal number

Inspected products

Charge rates

First unit of a kind

Second unit on of the same kind

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Motorized vehicles

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Automobiles, semi-trailers and trailers

2.00

0.04

2

Motorcycles, mopeds

3.00

0.07

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Special-use equipment and machinery

1

Hot asphalt-mixing stations, Stations for mixing graded concrete, cement concrete

0.50

The minimum charge is VND 3,000,000/ station;

The maximum charge is VND 10,000,000/ station

0.20

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The maximum charge is VND 5,000,000/ station

2

Pneumatic-tired rollers, steel-wheeled rollers, vibrating rollers, other special-use machinery joining traffic

2.00

The minimum charge is VND 500,000/unit;

The maximum charge is VND 2,000,000/unit

0.10

The minimum charge is VND 200,000/unit;

The maximum charge is VND 800,000/unit

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Construction machinery

1.20

0.50

The minimum charge is VND 500,000/unit;

The maximum charge is VND 3,000,000/unit

The minimum charge is VND 350,000/unit;

The maximum charge is VND 2,500,000/unit

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Lifting equipment

1.20

The minimum charge is VND 500,000/unit;

The maximum charge is VND 3,000,000/unit

0.50

The minimum charge is VND 350,000/unit;

The maximum charge is VND 2,500,000/unit

2. The product sale prices for calculation of the charges for inspection of the technical safety and quality prescribed in Table 5 are exclusive of value added tax.

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VI. CHARGES FOR INSPECTION OF THE TECHNICAL SAFETY AND QUALITY OF IMPORTED SPECIAL-USE MOTORIZED VEHICLES, EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY

1. Basic charge rates:

Table 6

Calculation unit: % import price

Ordinal number

Description of work

Charge rate (for one unit)

1

Inspecting for certification of the quality of imported motorized vehicles, special-use equipment and machinery

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The minimum charge is VND 300,000/unit

2. The import prices are the buying prices of imports or the tax calculation prices promulgated by competent authorities.

3. The charge for inspection and expertise for notification of the quality of special-use motorized vehicles, equipment and machinery shall be equal to 50% of the rate prescribed in Table 6.

VII. CHARGES FOR INSPECTION OF THE QUALITY OF FOR MOTORIZED VEHICLE-CHECKING EQUIPMENT

1. Basic charge rate:

Table 7

Calculation unit: VND 1,000/equipment

Ordinal number

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Charge rate

1

Inspecting the quality of motorized vehicle-checking equipment

300

2. Where, through inspection, equipment fail to satisfy the manufacturer’s standards and thus they must be repaired or adjusted and re-inspected, the re-inspection charge shall be equal to 50% of the charge rate prescribed in Table 7.

3. Where the checking equipment suddenly break down and must be repaired and re-inspected ahead of schedule, the inspection charge prescribed in Table 7 shall apply.-

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