Chương IV Nghị định 41/2016/NĐ-CP: Tổ chức thực hiện và điều khoản thi hành

Chapter IV

IMPLEMENTATION

Article 23. Responsibilities of the Ministry of Natural resources and Environment

1. Lead and cooperate with ministries, ministerial-level agencies, governmental agencies, People’s Committees in coastal provinces, and relevant organizations to issue, amend, extend, re-issue, suspend or revoke decisions on authorization of foreign entities’ science research activities in the marine waters of Vietnam.

2. Lead and cooperate with the Ministry of National defense, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, governmental agencies and People’s Committees in coastal provinces to govern foreign entities’ science research activities in the marine waters of Vietnam.

3. Cope with violations intra vires according to this Decree and relevant laws.

4. Minister of Natural resources and Environment, within its functions, missions and authority vested, shall be responsible for guiding, inspecting and expediting the implementation of this Decree.

Article 24. Responsibilities of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, governmental agencies and People’s Committees in coastal provinces

1. Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, governmental agencies and People’s Committees in coastal provinces, within the scope of their missions and authority, shall be responsible for:

a) Providing opinions on the issuance, amendment, extension and revocation of decisions on authorization of science research activities in response to the written inquiries of the Ministry of Natural resources and Environment;

b) Instruct inferior units to inspect and oversee science research activities by foreign entities in the marine waters of Vietnam;

c) Cope with violations intra vires; provide information to and cooperate with the Ministry of Natural resources and Environment to handle violations of foreign entities carrying out science research activities in the marine waters of Vietnam according to this Decree and relevant laws.

2. Ministry of National defense, within the scope of its missions and authority vested, shall be responsible for directing in-house patrol and control units to inspect foreign entities’ science research activities in accordance with the authorization decisions that competent authorities have issued, amended or extended. Ministry of National defense shall, intra vires, detect and deal with violations of foreign entities conducting science research activities in the marine waters of Vietnam or report such matters to competent authorities for their remedies according to this Decree and relevant laws.

3. Ministry of Public security shall be responsible for, intra vires, preventing, detecting, fighting, handling or reporting violations of foreign entities conducting science research activities in the marine waters of Vietnam to competent authorities according to this Decree and relevant laws.

4. Competent units of maritime patrol and control, within their functions, missions and authority vested, shall be responsible for inspecting science research activities of foreign entities in the marine waters of Vietnam. Moreover, the units shall tackle with violations intra vires.

Article 25. Effect

This Decree comes into force as of July 01, 2016. It replaces the Decree No. 242-HDBT dated August 05, 1991 by the Ministers' Council on foreign entities and equipment entering the marine waters of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for science research activities.

Article 26. Responsibility for implementation

1. Ministry of Natural resources and Environment shall lead and cooperate with ministries, ministerial-level agencies, governmental agencies and People’s Committees in coastal provinces shall implement this Decree.

2. Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Heads of governmental agencies, Chairpersons of People’s Committees in coastal provinces and relevant entities are responsible for implementing this Decree./.