Chương III Thông tư 22/2021/TT-BNNPTNT danh mục loài cây trồng lâm nghiệp chính: Tổ chức thực hiện

Chapter III

IMPLEMENTATION

Article 13. Responsibility for implementation

1. The Vietnam Administration of Forestry shall:

a) Regularly review, consolidate, update and publish lists of forest tree cultivars and cultivar sources that have been recognized or have their recognition decisions invalidated on its web portal;

b) Inspect the management of forest tree cultivars production and trading by local governments as prescribed by law;

c) Handle complaints and denunciations about and impose penalties for violations against regulations on management of forest tree cultivar production and trading nationwide within its power.

2. Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development of provinces and central-affiliated cities shall:

a) Provide guidelines for effective management, exploitation and use of recognized forest tree cultivars and cultivar sources;

b) Provide instructions for application of standards for forest tree cultivars;

c) Regularly review, consolidate, update and publish the list of forest tree cultivar sources that have been recognized or have their recognition decisions invalidated on their web portals; notify the Vietnam Administration of Forestry of recognition or invalidation of decisions on recognition of forest tree cultivar sources after such decisions are promulgated;

d) Inspect, handle complaints and denunciations about and impose penalties for violations against regulations on the management of forest tree cultivar production and trading within their provinces as prescribed by law;

dd) Before December 31, submit to the Vietnam Administration of Forestry a report on production, trading and use of forest tree cultivars within their provinces (including area of planted forests by each type of tree species).

3. Organizations and individuals shall:

a) Comply with regulations of law on forest tree cultivars during their production and trading, ensuring quality of forest tree cultivars as prescribed;

b) Facilitate the inspection and imposition of penalties by competent authorities as prescribed by law.

Article 14. Transitional clause

1. Any forest tree cultivar source recognized by a competent authority before the effective date of this Circular shall continue to be used until its expiry specified in the recognition decision.

2. Where an application for recognition of forest tree cultivar or forest tree cultivar source has been submitted before the effective date of this Circular but the forest tree cultivar or forest tree cultivar source has not yet been recognized, such application shall be processed as prescribed in this Circular.

Article 15. Effect

1. This Circular comes into force from February 12, 2022.

2. This Circular supersedes the Circular No. 30/2018/TT-BNNPTNT dated November 16, 2018 of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

3. In the cases where any of the documents or national standards referred to in this Circular is amended or replaced, the newest one shall prevail.

4. Difficulties that arise during the implementation of this Circular should be promptly reported to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development for consideration./.