04 Circulars on fishery-related national technical regulations in Vietnam to be annulled from November 01, 2023

04 Circulars on fishery-related national technical regulations in Vietnam to be annulled from November 01, 2023

Effective from November 1, 2023, the following circulars on fishery-related national technical regulations are to be wholly annulled:

- Circular 82/2009/TT-BNNPTNT dated December 25, 2009, issued by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on National Technical Regulations on food safety conditions in aquatic production.

- Circular 22/2014/TT-BNNPTNT dated July 29, 2014, issued by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on National Technical Regulations on the conditions for aquaculture.

- Circular 16/2015/TT-BNNPTNT dated April 10, 2015, issued by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on National Technical Regulations on the conditions for aquaculture.

- Circular 12/2017/TT-BNNPTNT dated June 7, 2017, issued by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on National Technical Regulations on technical requirements for tilapia breeding and farming facilities.

Draft Dossier on National Technical Regulations in Vietnam

The draft dossier on national technical regulations as stipulated in Clause 1, Article 10 of Decree 127/2007/ND-CP (amended by Decree 78/2018/ND-CP) includes:

- Decision assigning the task of drafting national technical regulations to an agency or organization, together with the approved project on development of national technical regulations;

- Report on the process of drafting national technical regulations by the agency or organization responsible for drafting;

- Draft national technical regulations for submission, accompanied by an explanation; a copy of the original document used as the basis for the draft national technical regulations and other reference documents;

- List of agencies to which the draft was sent for comments; aggregated and received comments along with the written comments, including the comments from relevant ministries and sectors;

- Official Dispatch requesting appraisal from the ministry or ministerial-level agency, including confirmation of the completeness of the draft National Technical Regulation dossier;

- Report on the appraisal results for the draft national technical regulations;

- Document responding to appraisal comments on the draft national technical regulations;

- Completed draft national technical regulations following the receipt of appraisal comments, accompanied by an explanation.

More details can be found in Circular 05/2023/TT-BNNPTNT which comes into force in Vietnam from November 1, 2023.

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