The building up resources for oil spill response at all levels in Vietnam

The building up resources for oil spill response at all levels in Vietnam (Image from the Internet)

The building up resources for oil spill response at all levels is stipulated in Article 8 of Decision 02/2013/QD-TTg on the Regulation on oil spill response issued by the Prime Minister, specifically as follows:

1. National Search and Rescue Committee shall take charge and cooperate with the Ministries and agencies in establishing and running training programs and drills to raise the efficiency of the national oil spill response and recovery in Vietnam.

2. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Transport shall run training courses in provincial and national oil spill response and recovery.

3. The People’s Committees of provinces shall establish and run training courses and drills to raise the efficiency of local oil spill response and recovery.

4. Local oil spill response centers and Units must ensure that their personnel are trained and capable of deploying emergency response when oil spills occur. Local oil spill response centers shall do practices and drills according to the plans approved by National Search and Rescue Committee.

5. Facilities, ports and projects must invest in or sign contracts for oil spill response with the facilities that have vehicles and instruments for response or with local oil spill response centers, at a level corresponding to the risk of oil spills in their areas, in order to responsively dispatch vehicles and equipment for responding to oil spills. Booms must bee deployed within 1 hours if below 20 tonnes of oil is spilled, within 12 hours if 20 - 100 tonnes of oil is spilled; within 24 hours if 100 - 500 tonnes of oil are spilled. Vehicles and equipment must be ready for oil spill response and recovery at the request of competent authorities.

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