Rules and responsibilities for providing online public environmental services in Vietnam

Rules and responsibilities for providing online public environmental services in Vietnam (Internet image)

1. What are the online public environmental services?

According to Clause 1, Article 116 of the Law on Environmental Protection 2020, online public environmental services include public administrative environmental services, environmental information provision services and other public environmental services prescribed by law.

2. Provision of online public environmental services in Vietnam

The provision of online public environmental services shall comply with the following regulations:

- Regulatory bodies that have the power to provide online public environmental services as prescribed by the Government must ensure connection, interconnection, convenience, simplicity and safety and serve the state management of environment.

- The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and provincial People's Committees shall operate and provide guidance on provision of online public environmental services ensuring the synchronization, connection and interconnection as prescribed by law.

(Clause 2, Article 116 of the Law on Environmental Protection 2020)

3. Rules for providing online public environmental services in Vietnam

- Regulatory bodies shall develop, provide and render online public environmental services under this Decree and the plans and roadmaps of competent authorities, ensuring the connection between the National Single Window Portal and the National Public Service Portal. Organizations and individuals are encouraged to use public environmental services online.

- The online public environmental services in relation to exports, imports and goods in transit shall comply with regulations on administrative procedures via National Single Window and ASEAN Single Window and specialized inspection for exports and imports; other online public services shall comply with regulations on administrative procedures by electronic means.

- If the administrative procedure result is announced in the form of a physical document, the authority in charge of handling administrative procedures shall digitalize the result for storage on the single-window information system as prescribed and connection with the public service portal of the superior authority. In the case where electronic administrative procedure result is announced, if the organization or individual requests a physical document, the authority in charge of handling administrative procedures shall transform the result into a physical document according to the Government’s regulations on administrative procedures by electronic means.

(Article 165 of the Decree 08/2022/ND-CP)

4. Responsibility for providing online public environmental services in Vietnam

- MONRE shall develop electronic web portals providing online services of central environment administrative procedures and concentrated administrative procedures under the Prime Minister’s decision; cooperate with the Ministry of Finance and Office of the Government in receiving and confirming requests and establishing connections.

- Provincial People’s Committees shall develop electronic web portals providing online services of local environment administrative procedures and concentrated administrative procedures as prescribed in clause 1 of this Article, ensuring synchronization and connection with the online public environmental service provision system of MONRE.

(Article 166 of the Decree 08/2022/ND-CP)

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