Chương V Nghị định 66/2019/NĐ-CP về bảo tồn và sử dụng bền vững các vùng đất ngập nước: Tổ chức thực hiện và điều khoản thi hành

Chapter V

ORGANIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION

Article 31. Responsibilities of ministerial agencies

1. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment shall have the responsibilities to:

a) serve as the contact point assisting the Government in carrying out consolidated state management on preservation and sustainable use of the nationwide wetlands; provide guideline, inspect the implementation of the provisions specified in this Decree;

b) manage the national wetland sanctuaries situated on at least 02 provinces and central-affiliated cities;

c) provide guidelines on: stocktaking, inventory management and grading of the nationwide wetlands; monitor the important wetlands; develop the reports on the wetlands; organize the appraisal council to appraise the application for the sanctuary establishment; organize the management of the wetland sanctuaries or the important wetlands situated outside of the sanctuaries;

d) carry out other responsibilities specified in this Decree.

2. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall have the responsibilities to:

a) cooperate with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in managing the preservation and sustainable use of the important wetlands;

b) provide information, basic inspection figures, results of the scientific research relating the wetlands under the Ministry management at the request of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

3. The Ministry of Finance shall provide guidelines on managing, using and making expenditure statements for the management, preservation and sustainable use of the important wetlands.

4. The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall allocate the investment funding to the tasks and projects allowed to use public funding to manage and develop the important wetlands according to the current applicable laws.

5. Other ministries and ministerial agencies within their assigned tasks and powers must cooperate with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in carrying out regulations on wetland preservation and sustainable use according to this Decree and relevant law provisions.

Article 32. Responsibilities of provincial People’s Committees

The provincial People’s Committees shall have the responsibilities to:

1. carry out state management on preservation and sustainable use of the wetlands within their provinces; implement the provisions of this Decree and relevant documents relating preservation and sustainable use of the wetlands within the provinces.

2. manage the important wetlands under the local government management; adopt measures to prevent the shift in the wetland ecological attributes and restore the natural wetland ecosystems, the collapsed important wetlands.

3. publicize, educate and make the environmental protection and biodiversity conservation known to the community living in, adjacent to the wetlands and organizations, individuals whose operations involve the important wetlands.

4. allocate the funding for the implementation of preservation and sustainable use of the wetlands within their provinces from the local government budget as per law.

5. cooperate with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and relevant ministries in providing guidelines, inspecting the preservation and sustainable use of the important wetlands; manage the interprovincial sanctuaries partially situated in their provinces and send the inspection, stocktaking results of the wetlands to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Article 33. Entry into force

1. This Decree comes into force from September 15, 2019.

2. Decree No. 109/2003/ND-CP dated September 23, 2003 of the Government on preservation and sustainable development of wetlands will expire when this Decree comes into force.

3. The national parks, nature reserves, habitat/species conservation areas and landscape protection areas specified in the list of important wetlands produced by the regulatory authorities before this Decree comes into force shall not apply for establishment nor request approval for establishment of sanctuaries, shall organize the sanctuary management and have the responsibilities to implement the provisions on the wetland preservation and sustainable use as specified in this Decree./.