Promulgating the Procedure for Remediation of Marine Oil Spill Incidents

01:08, 11/07/2024

On December 26, 2018, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment issued Circular 33/2018/TT-BTNMT stipulating the procedure for remedying the consequences of oil spills at sea.

The remediation of marine oil spill incidents is conducted according to the following procedure:

- Investigate and assess the level of environmental pollution caused by the marine oil spill incident.- Develop a plan to remediate the consequences of the marine oil spill incident.- Implement the plan to remediate the consequences of the marine oil spill incident and monitor the implementation of the plan.- Evaluate the results of the implementation of the remediation plan for the marine oil spill incident.

Additionally, Circular 33/2018/TT-BTNMT also sets forth four principles for the remediation of marine oil spill incidents, specifically:

- Relevant agencies, organizations, and individuals are responsible for closely coordinating and mobilizing resources to execute the remediation of the marine oil spill incident.- Remediation of the oil spill consequences must utilize information, data, results from oil spill response, and supplementary, updated investigations and surveys.- Choose advanced and environmentally-friendly technologies.- The quality of the marine environment after remediating the oil spill incident must be improved and capable of recovery, meeting the national environmental technical standards and regulations.

Refer to the relevant regulations at Circular 33/2018/TT-BTNMT which took effect from March 12, 2019.

- Thanh Lam -

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