Chương VI Thông tư 26/2022/TT-BNNPTNT quản lý truy xuất nguồn gốc lâm sản: Tổ chức thực hiện

Chapter VI

ORGANIZATION OF IMPLEMENTATION

Article 32. Responsibility for implementation

1. The Vietnam Administration of Forestry shall:

a) Implement this Circular nationwide;

b) Propose to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam approval for the harvesting plans in the cases prescribed at Point a Clause 2 Article 6 hereof.

2. Forest protection department shall:

a) Provide guidelines and inspect and supervise the compliance with law on harvesting, management and tracing of forest products nationwide as prescribed herein;

b) Develop a pilot model of codes of places of production of material production forests serving tracing associated with sustainable forest management and forest certification;

c) Develop a pilot model of information technology application to management and tracing of forest products;

d) Consolidate and report the compliance with regulations on management and tracing of forest products nationwide in this Circular.

3. Sub-departments of Forest Protection of regions shall:

a) Organize inspection of origins of forest products as prescribed in this Circular under direction of the Forest Protection Department in their assigned regions;

b) Consolidate and report the implementation of this Circular in regions where they are assigned to inspect at the request of competent authorities.

4. Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development shall organize the implementation and provide guidelines on the implementation of this Circular within provinces;

5. Forest protection authorities of provinces shall:

a) Consolidate and save information on the harvesting, import and export of forest products within provinces; organize inspection, supervision and tracing of forest products as prescribed herein;

b) Manage forest product dossiers as prescribed in this Circular;

c) Report the management, inspection and tracing of forest products; the situation of facilities for raising of animals and plants in provinces as prescribed herein;

6. Local forest protection authorities shall:

a) Consolidate and save information on the harvesting, import and export of forest products in areas where they manage, organize inspection, verification, supervision and tracing of forest products as prescribed herein;

b) Manage forest product dossiers as prescribed in this Circular;

c) Save dossiers submitted by forest product owners as prescribed in Chapter II and Chapter III hereof; manage packing list certification log books using Form No. 09 in the Appendix enclosed herewith;

d) Consolidate reports using Form No. 18 in the Appendix enclosed herewith on the receipt and delivery of forest products in their areas and submit them to the provincial forest protection authorities within 10 days from the day on which reports of business operators are received as prescribed in Point c Clause 8 of this Article.

7. Forest owners shall:

a) Store all dossiers on origins of forest products as prescribed in this Circular;

b) Prepare reports before and after harvesting as prescribed herein.

8. Organizations, individuals, household businesses, households or residential community shall:

a) Store all forest product dossiers as prescribed in this Circular;

b) Take responsibilities for the accuracy and comply with regulations on inspection and tracing issued by competent authorities;

c) Regarding business operators: prepare an inventory log book of forest products using Form No. 07 in the Appendix enclosed herewith; promptly update all information on the entry and exit of forest products and present it at the request of competent authorities; prepare 6-month reports on the entry and exit of forest products to local forest protection authorities using Form No. 18 in the Appendix enclosed herewith before July 15 and annual reports thereon before January 15. The first-6-month report shall cover the period from January 01 to June 30; an annual report shall cover the period from January 01 to December 31 of the year.

Article 33. Effect

1. This Circular comes into force from February 15, 2023.

2. Circular No. 27/2018/TT-BNNPTNT dated November 16, 2018 of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on management and tracing of forest products is invalid from the day on which this Circular comes into force.

3. Transitional clauses

a) If forest product owners store timber with legal origin which is harvested from natural forests, timber after being confiscated, timber included in the list of endangered/rare forest plants and animals, timber listed in the Appendices CITES before the date on which this Circular comes into force, upon trading, transfer and transport thereof, they must carry out certification of their packing lists as prescribed in Article 5 hereof. The forest product owners shall make statistics on the volume of timber with legal origins which are harvested from natural forests, timber after being confiscated, timber listed in the Appendices CITES, which are stored at their facilities, make packing lists using Form No. 01 in the Appendix enclosed herewith and submit them to local forest protection authorities for certification and management. These tasks must be completed before September 30, 2023.

b) If dossiers on harvesting of forest products have been approved before the day on which this Circular comes into force but such forest products have not yet been harvested or are being harvested, it is continued to comply with regulations in Circular No. 27/2018/TT-BNNPTNT dated November 16, 2018 of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on management and tracing of forest products. Harvested forest product dossiers shall comply with regulations in this Circular.

4. In case the legislative documents referred to this Circular are amended or replaced, the newest document shall be applied.

5. Difficulties arising in the period of implementation of this Circular should be promptly reported to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (via NAFIQAD) for consideration and decision./.