The Government promulgated the Decree No. 21/2020/ND-CP amending, supplementing a number of articles of the Decree No. 139/2017/ND-CP dated November 27, 2017 of the Government stipulating sanction for administrative violations in construction investment; mining, processing and trading minerals as building materials, producing and trading the building materials; managing the technical infrastructure works; trading real estate, developing housing, managing the use of houses and offices.

Accordingly, the Decree 21 abrogated a series of regulations on sanction in the construction field as follows:

- Abrogate the regulations on sanction for the act of selecting the organizations, individuals who are ineligible to participate in preparing the construction investment projects; Verifying the construction investment projects (previously fined VND 30-40 million);

- Abrogate the regulations on sanction for the construction organizations that have not labor contracts with the individuals who undertake key titles; the key titles have not certificates of professional training in specific fields of the project as regulated (previously fined VND 20-30 million);

- Abrogate the regulations on sanction for the foreign contractors who do not publish the information on the electronic information page as regulated when participating in the construction activities (previously fined from VND 30 - 40 million);

- Abrogate the regulations on sanction for the organizations that made the building materials development planning or mineral planning as building materials which do not meet the regulated capacity conditions (previously fined from VND 20-40 million);

 - Abrogate the regulations on sanction for the real estate brokerage training units that employ unqualified lecturers (previously sanctioned VND 2 - 5 million)...

This Decree took effect from April 01, 2020.

The Decree also specifies the transitional handling of the above administrative violations if they occurred before the effective date of this Decree but the decision on administrative violation sanction was made by the competent person and has not yet been implemented, continue to implement according to the regulations.

In the case that if the administrative violations have been drawn up the minutes of administrative violation or detected after the effective date of this Decree, the administrative violation sanction will be not imposed.