On February 15, 2017, the Ministry of Finance issued Circular 14/2017/TT-BTC providing guidelines for the management and use of maritime safety assurance fees, which are part of the state budget revenues, and the financial mechanism in the field of providing public utility services to ensure maritime safety.
According to the provisions of Circular 14, public utility services ensuring maritime safety include 06 types as follows:
- Operation and maintenance of lighthouse systems and independent navigational aids.- Operation and maintenance of public maritime channels.- Surveying for issuing maritime safety notifications for public maritime channels.- Repair, renovation, and upgrading of works and assets ensuring maritime safety.- Dredging and maintenance of maritime channels to ensure compliance with design standards approved by competent authorities (excluding dredging work for new maritime channel construction investment).- Emergency tasks ensuring maritime safety.
See the service provision methods in Circular 14/2017/TT-BTC, effective from April 1, 2017.
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