What are state management responsibilities of the Ministry of Industry and Trade for chemical-related activities in Vietnam?

What are state management responsibilities of the Ministry of Industry and Trade for chemical-related activities in Vietnam? - image from internet

Pursuant to Article 63 of the Law on Chemicals in 2007 stipulating state management responsibilities of the Ministry of Industry and Trade for chemical-related activities in Vietnam:

1. The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall, within the scope of its tasks and powers, perform the following contents of state management of chemical-related activities:

a/ To promulgate according to its competence or submit to the Government for promulgation legal documents, strategies, plannings and plans on development of the chemical industry and technical regulations on chemical safety;

b/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with ministries and branches in, formulating and submitting to the Government for promulgation a national chemical database, a list of chemicals subject to conditional production and trading, a list of chemicals restricted from production and trading, a list of banned chemicals; a list of chemicals subject to declaration and the list of chemicals requiring chemical incident prevention and response plans;

c/ To manage chemicals for industrial use, chemicals which are pre-substances for industrial use and chemicals under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction; to manage chemicals used in consumer industrial products; to promulgate a list of chemicals banned from use in domestic products and consumer products, except those managed by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development;

d/ To develop a national chemical database;

dd/ To perform the uniform management of the classification and labeling of hazardous chemicals; chemical registration and declaration and chemical safety information;

e/ To synthesize and produce statistics on the chemical safety situation nationwide;

g/ To guide the elaboration and organize the appraisal of chemical incident prevention and response plans; to coordinate with concerned agencies in preventing, responding to and remedying chemical incidents;

h/ To enter into international cooperation in chemical-related activities and chemicals safety;

i/ To specify technical-material foundations and professional conditions on chemical facilities under its management;

k/ To participate in the dissemination of and education about the law on chemicals;

l/ To inspect chemical-related activities; to settle complaints and denunciations concerning chemical-related activities;

m/ To perform other tasks concerning chemical-related activities as assigned by the Government.

2. The Government shall decide to set up, and define the functions, tasks and organizational structure of, an agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, which shall perform the state management of chemical-related activities to assist the Minister in performing the state management of chemical-related activities.

Above are state management responsibilities of the Ministry of Industry and Trade for chemical-related activities in Vietnam. Please refer to the Law on Chemicals in 2007 for further information.

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