Closely following management practices
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment is currently finalizing the Draft Decree detailing and implementing the Law on Fisheries in the direction of strong decentralization, reduction of administrative procedures, removal of bottlenecks in production, export and resource management. The consistent spirit is to perfect institutions for sustainable development while increasing compliance with international commitments on combating against against against against illegal exploitation without declaration and without regulations.
The draft covers the protection of resources to aquaculture, fishing management of fishing vessels and import-export processing activities. The regulations are reviewed to reduce overlapping conflicts and prioritize feasibility to help business management agencies and fishermen apply consistently. Notably, the additional conditions for granting an extension of the revocation of fishing licenses and clarifying cases of removal of fishing vessel registration along with requirements for exported vessels and the scope of regulation for IUU fishing behavior. This approach not only strengthens management effectiveness but also increases transparency throughout the value chain from exploitation to consumption.
From reality, many new regulations have been proposed to meet the requirements of management at sea and on land. Notably, it stipulates that the journey monitoring device of fishing vessels must operate continuously to help authorities monitor the journey to trace the origin and prevent violations.
The responsibility of ship owners and equipment suppliers is clearly stated to close operational loopholes. Along with that, the scope of operation of logistics ships and fishing vessels is clarified, the policy for fishing vessel control forces and crew members of service ships is supplemented to improve the capacity to enforce the law at sea. These adjustments are an important foundation in efforts to remove the yellow card warning and enhance the position of Vietnamese seafood in the international market.
Strong decentralization, procedures reduction
One of the notable points of the Draft is to minimize administrative procedures and shorten the time for handling documents. Procedures with high frequency and high compliance costs such as granting a document approving the exploitation of rare endangered species and granting a certificate of eligibility for the production of seafood breeds for food production and environmental treatment products or the testing procedures have been designed in a streamlined and transparent manner. The system of process forms is unified nationwide, helping to end the situation where each place has a different type of capital, which is costly and time-consuming for businesses.
Along with cutting down on procedures, there is a thorough decentralization to localities, especially to the commune level in stages near people and businesses such as confirming cage aquaculture facilities or key farming objects. Strong decentralization also creates a creative space for localities to choose implementation methods suitable to the specific characteristics of the region but still ensures the principle of unified management.
The draft also proposes to remove many bottlenecks that have caused supply chains to be congested in recent times. In particular, the regulation abolishes the ban on mixing imported mining materials with domestic mining materials in the same export shipment. For people and businesses, the entire system of forms and processes will be standardized to ensure publicity, transparency and unity.
The draft is currently being made public by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to seek widely opinions from the management agency of the professional association of enterprises and the fishing community.
