Decision No. 24/2026/QD-UBND Issuing the Regulation on the Management of Durian Buying and Selling Activities in Dak Lak Province

Decision No. 24/2026/QĐ-UBND, issued by the People's Committee of Đắk Lắk Province on 23 March 2026 (signed by Vice Chairman Đào Mỹ) and effective from the same date, promulgates the Regulation on management of durian purchase and sale activities in Đắk Lắk Province. It is grounded in the Law on Organisation of Local Government No. 72/2025/QH15, the 2015 Civil Code, the 2005 Commercial Law, the 2010 Law on Food Safety, the 2019 Law on Tax Administration, the 2020 Law on Enterprises, and Decrees No. 09/2018/NĐ-CP, 69/2018/NĐ-CP, 98/2020/NĐ-CP and 46/2026/NĐ-CP, following the proposal of the Department of Industry and Trade. The Regulation governs the principles, conditions, procedures and responsibilities of organisations and individuals engaged in purchasing, transporting, preliminary processing, preserving and selling fresh durian and processed durian (frozen extracted pulp) in the province, and the responsibilities of state management agencies. It defines durian purchase points, distinguishing fixed points — stable facilities equipped for collection, grading, preliminary processing and packing for commercial purposes — from temporary points rented or borrowed for short periods during the harvest season where permanent warehouses are not yet feasible. Operating principles require compliance with Vietnamese law and international commitments; openness, transparency, equality and fair competition; protection of growers' and consumers' interests; traceability, quality, food safety, environmental protection and the Đắk Lắk durian brand image; and traders' registration, declaration and submission to state inspection. Participants must comply with rules on product quality, food safety, traceability, growing-area codes, packing-facility codes, plant quarantine and origin, perform purchase contracts as agreed, refrain from exploiting the harvest season or market fluctuations to disrupt the market, and avoid prohibited acts including commercial fraud and misuse or counterfeiting of growing-area and packing-facility codes. State responsibilities are allocated: the Department of Industry and Trade leads inspection of commercial fraud; the Department of Agriculture and Environment handles quality, origin and environmental violations, disseminates sustainable cultivation and food-safety control procedures for fresh durian exports, and issues and supervises growing-area and packing-facility codes; the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism organises timely, transparent market and price information and counters false information; the provincial Tax Office leads action against tax evasion and unlawful invoices, guides electronic-invoice use and conducts periodic and unscheduled inspections; the provincial Police maintain security at purchase points, prevent crowding, price coercion and organised hoarding; and commune- and ward-level People's Committees disseminate the Regulation, supervise traders, and may temporarily certify temporary purchase points meeting minimum conditions on traffic safety, sanitation, environment, fire prevention and land-use planning. Inspection must follow each agency's mandate without obstructing lawful business; violations are handled under administrative-sanction law without creating extra-legal conditions or obligations. The Department of Industry and Trade is assigned to coordinate implementation and report to the provincial People's Committee.