To create a legal basis to strictly handle the acts that obstruct procedural activities of competent agencies and persons, on August 18, 2022, the National Assembly Standing Committee promulgated the Ordinance on sanctions of administrative violations for acts of obstructing procedural activities (the Ordinance). The Ordinance regulates acts of obstructing procedural activities subject to sanctions for administrative violations; forms and levels of penalties; remedial measures; measures to prevent and ensure the handling of administrative violations; competence, procedures in sanctioning, enforcement of sanctioning decisions and coercive enforcement of decisions on sanctioning administrative violations for acts of obstructing procedural activities. It should be noted that the penalties specified in the Ordinance is applicable to individuals, the penalties for organizations with similar violations will double the ones for individuals. In this article, NHQuang&Associates will introduce some notable contents of the Ordinance, which focuses on procedural obstructing acts to be sanctioned in criminal, civil, administrative areas.
