What is the National single-window portal? Functions of the national single-window portal in Vietnam

What is the National single-window portal? Functions of the national single-window portal in Vietnam (Internet image)

1. What is the National single-window portal?

National single-window portal referred to in clause 1 of Article 7 in the Decree 08/2015/ND-CP means an integrated information system constituted by a customs clearance system administered by a customs authority, an information system administered by the Ministry of Science and Technology and other information systems (hereinafter referred to as specialized document processing system).

2. Principles of operation of the national single-window portal in Vietnam

In Article 8 of Joint Circular 178/2015/TTLT-BTC-BNNPTNT-BTNMT-BYT stipulating the principles of operation of the national single-window portal as follows:

- Comply with specialized laws or legislation on protection of state secrets, protection of trade secrets and confidential business information with respect to electronic transactions performed on the national single-window portal.

- Ensure accuracy, objectivity, adequacy and timeliness of electronic transactions performed on the national single-window portal.

3. Functions of the national single-window portal in Vietnam

Article 9 of Joint Circular 178/2015/TTLT-BTC-BNNPTNT-BTNMT-BYT stipulates the functions of the national single-window portal as follows:

- Receiving relevant electronic documents and information, validating digital signatures of declarants and those sent from processing entities.

- Forwarding other electronic documents and information of declarants to specialized processing systems (including digital signatures, if declarants use digital signatures), storing information sent by declarants on the national single-window portal to serve searching and statistical purposes.

- Receiving notifications from specialized processing systems.

- Returning electronic documents to declarants (including digital signatures, if these systems use digital signatures).

- Responding with processing results of Ministries to relevant specialized processing systems.

- Storing the status of electronic transactions performed on the national single-window portal and storing electronic documents.

- Providing certain data reporting and statistical functions upon the requests of processing entities and declarants.

4. Authority and extent of access to the national single-window portal in Vietnam

In Article 10 of Joint Circular 178/2015/TTLT-BTC-BNNPTNT-BTNMT-BYT stipulating the authority and level of access to the National Single Window Portal as follows:

- Persons obtaining permission to access the national single-window portal shall include:

+ Organizations or individuals carrying out administrative procedures prescribed in Article 1 of Joint Circular 178/2015/TTLT-BTC-BNNPTNT-BTNMT-BYT;

+ Customs authorities or entities directly or indirectly affiliated to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Health of Vietnam;

+ State regulatory authorities not defined in point b of this clause that are allowed to use information available on the national single-window portal.

- Extent and authority of access:

+ Organizations or individuals specified in point a of clause 1 of Article 10 of Joint Circular 178/2015/TTLT-BTC-BNNPTNT-BTNMT-BYT may have access to the national single-window portal to declare information, receive feedbacks on information about processing of documents for implementation of single-window administrative procedures, get other single-window administrative documents and processing results with respect to single-window administrative procedures, and searching information available for the public on the single-window customs portal;

+ Persons specified in point b of clause 1 of Article 10 of Joint Circular 178/2015/TTLT-BTC-BNNPTNT-BTNMT-BYT  may have access to the single-window portal in order to receive information, process information and return processing results in the form of single-window administrative documents or other processing results with respect to single-window administrative procedures, and obtain other single-window administrative documents and processing results from relevant entities;

+ Persons referred to in point c of clause 1, subject to clause 2 of Article 25 of Joint Circular 178/2015/TTLT-BTC-BNNPTNT-BTNMT-BYT .

Ngoc Nhi

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