VietNamNet Bridge – Facebook has yet to comment since the Government released Decree 185 stipulating fines against e-commerce violations.

The decree imposes fines when individuals, organizations and businesses do not inform or register with the authorized agencies changes in information related to their websites supplying e-commerce services.

Speaking to the Daily, a representative of Facebook in Singapore through its media representative in Vietnam T&A Ogilvy said that Facebook has yet to comment on the issue. Facebook has also yet to disclose whether it has registered with the Ministry of Industry and Trade as requested.

The decree, which came into effect on January 1, 2014, regulates that fines are also imposed on individuals, organizations and businesses who own e-commerce websites without registration, supply e-commerce services which are not registered or different from their registered services and those who use e-commerce to sell counterfeit goods, illegally copyrighted products and prohibited goods and services.

Le Thi Ha, a representative of the ministry’s Department for E-commerce and Information Technology, said that Facebookers do not need to register to the ministry if they supply products or services on the social network. However, Facebook as the website owner has to register the businesses to the ministry and follow regulations of Decree 185 for using the domain name ‘.vn’.

Violating websites will be subject to fines up to VND100 million and the domain name ‘.vn’ will be confiscated.

Source: SGT