offenders shall be sentenced to between five years and ten years of imprisonment 4. The offenders may also be subject to a fine of between five million dong and fifty million dong, a ban from holding certain posts, practicing certain occupations or doing certain jobs for one to five years. Article 185.- Import of technologies, machinery, equipment, discarded materials or materials which fail to satisfy environmental protection criteria 1. Those who import or permit the import of technologies, machinery, equipment, biological preparations, chemical preparations, noxious matters, radioactive substances or discarded materials which fail to satisfy the environmental protection criteria, have already been administratively sanctioned for such acts but still commit them, causing serious consequences, shall be subject to a fine of between ten million dong and one hundred million dong, non-custodial reform for up to three years or a prison term of between six months and three years. 2. Committing the crime and causing very serious consequences, the offenders shall be sentenced to between two and seven years of imprisonment. 3. Committing the crime and causing particularly serious consequences, the offenders shall be sentenced to between five and ten years of imprisonment. 4. The offenders may also be subject to a fine of between five million dong and fifty million dong, a ban from holding certain posts, practicing certain occupations or doing certain jobs for one to five years. Article 186.- Spreading dangerous epidemics to human beings 1. Those who commit one of the following acts of spreading dangerous epidemics to other persons, shall be sentenced to between one and five years of imprisonment: a) Taking out of epidemic areas animals, plants, animal or plant products or other objects capable of spreading dangerous epidemics to human beings; b) Bringing into or permitting to bring into Vietnam animals, plants or animal or plant products, which are infected with diseases or carry dangerous disease germs capable of spreading to human beings; c) Other acts of spreading dangerous epidemics to human beings. 2. Committing the crime and causing very serious or particularly serious consequences, the offenders shall be sentenced to between five and twelve years of imprisonment. 3. The offenders may also be subject to a fine of between ten million dong and one hundred million dong, a ban from holding certain posts, practicing certain