Ministry of Industry and Trade: Need to be more fair with traditional taxis

Accordingly, the Ministry of Industry and Trade cited the provisions of Decree 52, entities applying e-commerce to trade in goods and conditional business services must comply with legal regulations related to the trading of such goods and services.

Therefore, when using mobile applications for transportation business, businesses must comply with both e-commerce regulations and other regulations of the transportation industry.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade believes that it is necessary to comprehensively review the current management model for passenger transport services to have a new approach suitable to practical requirements and development trends.

This Ministry proposed to review the classification of "passenger transport business by taxi", "passenger transport business by contract", "tourist transport business by car", because currently the boundaries between these types are no longer clear.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade also proposed to review and comprehensively evaluate legal documents on transportation services, eliminating regulations that are no longer suitable for practice. For example, regulations emphasizing the elements of "paperwork" and "listing" are not suitable for transactions in which the contract is concluded in an electronic environment.

The Ministry believes that it is necessary to consider loosening the imposed regulations on the business organization model of traditional transport units, thereby minimizing the inequality between the compliance costs of the traditional transport model and the transport model applying science and technology.

“Ideally, regulations on passenger transport should be developed in an open manner, only providing management principles and defining the rights and obligations of participating parties, without rigid regulations on forms of transport services,” the document stated.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed to strengthen inspection and handling of pilot vehicles that do not comply with the logo and badge application. Local traffic inspectors actively coordinate with traffic police to step up inspection and work with units participating in the pilot, and take measures to screen and terminate the use of services for vehicles that deliberately do not comply with regulations.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade also requested the Ministry of Transport to speed up the completion of the draft decree to replace Decree 86/ND-CP, which adjusts inappropriate regulations related to traditional taxis, and at the same time defines the operating model, adds new regulations and sanctions to handle violations suitable for software providers and transport units currently participating in the pilot.