4 regulations that civil servants should know, effective from June 2018.
From June 2018, many new documents related to promotion of positions, emulation and commendation, and personnel management for officials and public employees officially came into effect.
| No. | Regulations | Content |
| 1 | Regulations on promotion of professional titles for teaching staff in public higher education institutions. | Circular 12/2018/TT-BGDĐT, effective from June 1, 2018, specifies the regulations for considering promotion to higher professional ranks for lecturers in public universities. Accordingly, the Promotion Review Council is established by the head of the agency or unit and organizes the promotion review process, which includes the following steps: preparing for the promotion review, reviewing promotion applications, and conducting the promotion review. |
| 2 | Reduce the term of office by one-third for female officials working in the courts when considering awards. | Specifically, Clause 11, Article 5 of Circular 01/2018/TT-TANDTC stipulates that for female leaders and managers, the time spent in office for consideration of awards for their contributions is reduced by one-third compared to the general regulations. Furthermore, when multiple individuals or groups meet the criteria for a particular award, priority is given to female individuals or groups with a higher percentage of female members. |
| 3 | Prohibited behaviors in administrative procedures under the one-stop mechanism. | Officials and public employees assigned to guide, receive applications, and process and return results for administrative procedures under the one-stop and integrated one-stop mechanisms at the One-Stop Service Center and at competent agencies are prohibited from performing certain actions, such as: - Abusing power, harassing, causing inconvenience and difficulties for organizations and individuals in carrying out administrative procedures; - Illegally obstructing or preventing the transmission, sending, or receiving of electronic data; illegally altering, deleting, destroying, falsifying, copying, or moving part or all of the data content used in administrative procedures. - Refusing to carry out, prolonging the processing time of administrative procedures, or arbitrarily requesting additional documents beyond what is stipulated by law. The above content is based on Decree 61/2018/ND-CP, effective from June 21, 2018. |
| 4 | The Disciplinary Committee has the right to order party members not to leave the country. | The Central Committee has just issued Regulation 01-Qdi/TW on the responsibilities and authority of the Inspection Committee in the fight against corruption. Accordingly, when a Party member shows signs of violating corruption regulations, the Inspection Committee has the right to request that the Party member not leave the country. When necessary, the Inspection Committee may request the competent authority to temporarily suspend the departure of Party members showing signs of violations and signs of fleeing. |
