Chapter IV
STATE MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Article 24.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Industry and Trade
1. To submit to the Government or the Prime Minister for promulgation, or promulgate according to its competence legal documents on liquor production and trading.
2. To coordinate with ministries, branches and localities in controlling and managing liquor production and trading under the master plan on development of the beer, liquor and beverage industry.
3. To perform the state management of the liquor industry in its construction investment in accordance with law and this Decree.
4. To guide the elaboration and application of Vietnam standards, application of manufacturer standards and prescribe procedures for registration of manufacturer standards.
5. To organize the line management of quality of liquor products, food hygiene and safety and industrial safety.
6. To specify the competence, order and procedures for the grant, modification and withdrawal of liquor production licenses, licenses for manual liquor production, liquor wholesale or wholesale agency licenses, liquor retail or retail agency licenses.
7. To inspect and examine the observance of liquor production master plans, regulations on product quality, food hygiene and safety, environmental protection by liquor production establishments; to settle complaints and denunciations and handle illegal acts in liquor production and trading.
8. To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned functional agencies in, organizing inspections for detecting and handling other violations in liquor trading.
9. To coordinate with functional state agencies in organizing the confiscation and destruction of smuggled, fake, imitation or inferior-quality liquor products or those with expired use durations, bearing trademarks not protected in Vietnam, neither properly labeled nor stuck with stamps.
10. To coordinate with other entities in organizing the dissemination and public information for the implementation of this Decree.
Article 25.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Finance
To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned ministries and branches in, prescribing the sticking, printing and issuance of imported liquor stamps and managing the use of these stamps. To study and elaborate a schedule of sticking stamps on domestically produced liquors.
Article 26.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Health
1. To draft and submit to the Government or the Prime Minister for promulgation legal documents on food hygiene and safety, prevention and control of harms of liquor abuse.
2. To inspect and supervise the observance of regulations on food hygiene and safety and prevention and control of harms of liquor abuse.
3. To coordinate with concerned agencies in detecting, inspecting and handling establishments producing fake liquors or trading in smuggled liquors or failing to ensure food hygiene and safety.
4. To specify the competence, order and procedures for the grant, modification and withdrawal of certificates of satisfaction of food hygiene and safety for liquor products of organizations and individuals.
5. To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned ministries and branches in, elaborating and promulgating regulations on management of medicated liquor production and trading.
Article 27.- Responsibilities of ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies
Ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies shall, within the scope of their powers and under the Governments assignment, coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade in performing the state management of liquor production and trading, disseminating the Decree on liquor production and trading for its effective enforcement.
Article 28.- Responsibilities of provincial/municipal Peoples Committees
1. To perform the state management of the liquor industry in their respective localities. To manage and solve problems of the liquor industry falling under their competence.
2. To direct local liquor production establishments in strictly observing the master plan, ensuring the achievement of the set objectives and development orientations.
3. To elaborate, appraise and approve master plans on development of the beer, liquor and beverage industry in their localities, including plannings on liquor production and traditional liquor production villages; to evaluate and decide on recognition of traditional liquor production villages.
4. To inspect the liquor production, circulation and sale in their localities.
5. To supervise and inspect the implementation of the master plan, product quality standards, food safety and hygiene, and fulfillment of tax obligations toward the State, labor safety and environmental protection in liquor production enterprises, and handle violations in their localities in accordance with law.
6. To organize the implementation of the master plan on development of the beer, liquor and beverage industry and the provisions of this Decree, and disseminate and educate about them among people for their strict observance in liquor production.
7. To conduct public information and education about harms of liquor abuse and use of liquors with high contents of toxic ingredients in order to improve public awareness about the necessity to gradually replace them with high-quality liquors up to the prescribed food quality, hygiene and safety standards.
8. To direct local administrations at all levels in identifying causes of liquor poisoning in their localities and taking remedial measures according to their competence.
Tìm kiếm
Nghị định 40/2008/NĐ-CP (Bản Word)
Nghị định 40/2008/NĐ-CP (Bản Pdf)