On December 30, information from the People's Committee of Nghe An province said that there were results of inspection and handling by the Interdisciplinary Team to inspect the compliance with the law in mineral activities of enterprises in Quy Hop district.
Of the 23 inspected enterprises, 11 enterprises used land as mine office areas, waste dumps, and product gathering areas for mining without being leased land by the Provincial People's Committee.
There are 22 enterprises that have prepared statistical reports and inventories of remaining mineral reserves in licensed areas with incomplete information according to the form prescribed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment; there are 22 enterprises that have prepared incomplete books, vouchers, documents, and related materials to determine actual annual mining output.
All 23 enterprises that make annual status maps still lack some information such as: dumping areas, product storage areas; reserves, mineral exploration projects...; 5 enterprises have signs of mineral exploitation beyond the licensed boundary.
3/23 enterprises did not prepare annual environmental protection reports as prescribed. 7/23 enterprises did not exploit in accordance with the mine design approved by the competent authority; 3/23 enterprises did not submit the approved mine design to the competent state management agency for minerals.
6/23 enterprises issued blasting passports with incomplete contents according to the prescribed form; 2/23 enterprises violated technical safety standards on industrial explosives in the use of industrial explosives; 1/23 enterprises did not conduct safety risk assessments and did not develop emergency response plans in industrial explosives activities; in particular, 1 enterprise reported incorrect data on the use of industrial explosives.
In compliance with labor safety laws, 20/23 enterprises have violations, such as not organizing occupational disease examinations for workers doing heavy, toxic, and dangerous work; not conducting work environment monitoring to control harmful effects on workers' health according to the provisions of law; not organizing labor safety and hygiene training for workers; not conducting periodic health check-ups twice a year...
18/23 enterprises also incorrectly declared resource tax, environmental protection fees, corporate income tax, value added tax... with a total amount of over 3 billion VND.
The interdisciplinary team drew up a record of administrative violations and transferred the file to the Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee, Nghe An Tax Department and Chairman of Quy Hop District People's Committee to impose administrative penalties on 23 enterprises with violations with a total amount of over VND 9,848,720,637. Of which, the penalty and collection of tax violations was over VND 4.2 billion; and the penalty for violations in other fields was over VND 5.6 billion.
