What is a packing list of forest products? The latest form of packing list in Vietnam

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What is a packing list of forest products? The latest form of packing list of forest products in Vietnam

1. What is a packing list of forest products?

According to Point a, Clause 1, Article 5 of Vietnam's Circular 27/2018/TT-BNNPTNT, a packing list shall be made by the forest product owner after the harvesting; when trading, transporting and dispatching forest products at a time and on the same vehicle;

When preparing the application for issuance of license to export forest products as prescribed or shall be made by the competent person when preparing documents about penalties for violations;

According to Clause 16, Article 2 of Vietnam's Law on Forestry 2017, “forest product” means a product that is utilized from the forest including forest plants, animals and other forest organisms consisting of timbers, non-timber forest products, rattan and bamboo products after being processed.

2. Latest form of packing list of forest products

The form of packing list of forest products specified at Point c, Clause 1, Article 5 of Vietnam's Circular 27/2018/TT-BNNPTNT is as follows:

- Form of packing list of round wood and sawn wood

Form No. 01

- Sample list of forest products for wood products:

Form No. 02

- Sample list of forest products for non-wood forest plants and their derivatives:

Form No. 03

- Sample list of forest products for forest animals and their parts and derivatives:

Form No. 04

3. Regulations on making packing list of forest products

Clause 2, Article 5 of Vietnam's Circular 27/2018/TT-BNNPTNT stipulates the making of lists of forest products as follows:

- The forest product owner shall specify all information about forest products in the packing list according to the Forms No. 01, No. 02, No. 03 and No. 04 attached to Vietnam's Circular 27/2018/TT-BNNPTNT;

- Regarding the wood that has not been classified by diameter ranges specify its total quantity and volume or weight in the packing list as follows:

+ Round wood of the same size and shape after exploitation, solid wood with a small end diameter of 10 cm to less than 20 cm, a length of 01 meter or more or a small end diameter of 20 cm or more than 30 cm in length.

+ Sawn wood having a length of at least 01 m, width of at least 20 cm and thickness of at least 05 cm, each section, strip and board number shall be written on the vertical cross-section of the wood.

- When making a packing list of round wood and sawn wood marked with the numbers, the forest product owner shall write such number in the packing list as follows

+ Round wood of the same size and shape after exploitation, solid wood with a small end diameter of 10 cm to less than 20 cm, a length of 01 meter or more or a small end diameter of 20 cm or more than 30 cm in length.

+ Sawn wood having a length of at least 01 m, width of at least 20 cm and thickness of at least 05 cm, each section, strip and board number shall be written on the vertical cross-section of the wood.

- Regarding non-wood forest plants or forest animals, the forest product owner shall enumerate in detail real quantity and volume or weight or enumerate total quantity and volume or weight of each non-wood forest plant or forest animal in the packing list;

- At the bottom of each page of the packing list, the forest product owner shall specify the total quantity and volume or weight of each forest product and append his/her signature. On the last page of the packing list, the forest product owner shall specify the total quantity and volume or weight of each forest product written in the entire packing list.

4. Forest products that must be specified in the packing list

 Subjects must certify the list of forest products according to Article 6 of Vietnam's Circular 27/2018/TT-BNNPTNT as follows:

(1) Wood harvested from domestic natural forests and having not undergone any processing.

(2) Non-wood forest plants on the list of endangered/rare forest plants and animals and CITES Appendices, which are harvested from domestic natural forests and have not undergone any processing.

(3) Wild or domestically raised forest animals and parts and derivatives thereof; forest animals and products of imported forest animals on the list of endangered/rare plant forests and animals.

(4) In the cases where the forest products specified in items (1), (2), (3) of this section are internally transported within a province, the packing list is not required to be certified by a local forest protection authority.

Quoc Dat

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