Chương IV Thông tư 30/2018/TT-BNNPTNT Danh mục cây trồng lâm nghiệp chính công nhận giống nguồn giống: Tổ chức thực hiện

Chapter IV

IMPLEMENTATION

Article 18. Responsibility for implementation

1. The Vietnam Administration of Forestry shall:

a) Consolidate and publish lists of cultivars and cultivar sources that have been recognized or have their recognition decisions invalidated and producers and traders of forest tree cultivars its website;

b) Inspect, handle complaints and denunciations about and impose penalties for violations against regulations on the management of forest tree cultivar production and trading nationwide as prescribed by law.

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 cultivar sources;

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

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

d) Before December 31, submit to the Vietnam Administration of Forestry a report on forest tree cultivar production and trading within their provinces;

dd) 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.

3. Organizations and individuals shall:

a) Comply with the requirements for ensuring quality of cultivars during their production and trading;

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

Article 19. 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 cultivar source has been submitted before the effective date of this Circular but the forest tree cultivar or cultivar source has not yet been recognized, such application shall be processed as prescribed in this Circular.

Article 20. Effect

1. This Circular comes into force from January 01, 2019.

2. The Circular No. 44/2015/TT-BNNPTNT dated November 23, 2015 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Decision No. 89/2005/QD-BNN dated December 29, 2005 of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development are null and void from the effective date of this Circular.

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

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