Consultation to finalize the draft Decree on National Single Window

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The workshop: Photo: H. nu

Deputy General Director of Customs Nguyen Cong Binh chaired the workshop with the attendance of Mr. Michael Trueblood, Director of USAID's Economic Growth and Governance Office, USAID Vietnam and 35 representatives from ministries and sectors; and 50 representatives from associations and enterprises.

At the workshop, Deputy Director General Nguyen Cong Binh said that the Agreement to establish and implement the ASEAN Single Window was signed and approved by the member countries at the Protocol to establish and implement the ASEAN Single Window. The NSW mechanism has been officially launched from November 2014 and has now been linked to 11 ministries, so far, 14 ministries and sectors have been connected and 47 administrative procedures have been implemented on the National Single Window. In the coming time, the number of administrative procedures implemented on the National Single Window will increase more.

However, the number of administrative procedures deployed on the National Single Window is still small (47 out of 245 total administrative procedures). The process of implementation has revealed the overlap, inadequacies and shortcomings due to the provisions in legal documents being developed in traditional manual method, which lacks the coordination among related administrative procedures, leading to many requests for unnecessary information and overlapping in regulations on administrative procedures of ministries and sectors; and due to the standardization, simplification, harmonization of administrative procedures still being at low level; and due to a lack of legal basis specifying the responsibility of ministries and sectors in information sharing on the implementation of administrative procedures.

In order to have a legal basis for the implementation of administrative procedures on the National Single Window, although the Ministry of Finance has coordinated with other ministries and sectors to develop legal documents, these documents only govern some specific administrative procedures and fail to govern all to implement administrative procedures by electronic method.

Therefore, in order to reduce the Customs clearance time and facilitate enterprises in the import and export activities, over the past time, the Government has issued many resolutions 19 on the reform of specialized inspection for import and export goods. On 15th May 2018, the Prime Minister also promulgated Resolution 19-2018 / NQ-CP on measures to implement the reform of specialized inspection, simplification and reduction of administrative procedures on specialized inspection. Accordingly, the Government set targets and requests for cutting the rate of goods subject to specialized inspection to less than 10%, review and remove 50% of goods subject to specialized inspection.

In the implementation of Resolution No. 84 / NQ-CP dated 6/9/2017 of the Government, the Ministry of Finance is assigned to chair the development of the National Single Window Decree. Accordingly, the National Single Window Decree aims to institutionalize the policy of the Party and the State on administrative reform, concretizing the objectives of Government Resolutions 19 on main tasks and solutions which are further improving the business environment, raising national competitiveness and Resolution 36a / NQ-CP on developing the e-Government.

At the same time, implementing international commitments to create the legal basis for the implementation of administrative procedures for import and export goods and goods in transit and passengers and means of transport on exit, entry by non-paper electronic method, contributing to reducing the cost of implementing administrative procedures. Simplifying procedures, facilitating Customs clearance of import and export goods by reducing pre-check and boosting post-check; developing the inter-sector coordination regulation in specialized inspection; publicizing the specialized inspection and improving the specialized inspection for import and export goods toward applying the principles of risk management and mutual recognition of inspection results according to international agreements; and applying IT to the implementation of procedures registration and response of inspection results.

"In order to develop the draft National Single Window Decree, the GDVC has assessed the implementation of National Single Window and reviewed the provisions of Agreement to establish and implement the ASEAN Single Window, the Protocol to establish and implement the ASEAN Single Window, the Protocol on the Legal Framework to implement the ASEAN Single Window, as well as looked back on legal provisions on specialized inspections for import and export goods," Deputy Director General Nguyen Cong Binh emphasized.

According to Michael Trueblood, the development of a new decree on National Single Window and specialized inspection for import and export goods is important and timely in the context that the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement that Vietnam has acceded to, has been in effect since February 2017. In addition, the Fifth Government Resolution No. 19/2018 has set higher standards for improving the business environment and enhancing national competitiveness. Therefore, the draft National Single Window Decree will help Vietnam continue to facilitate more enterprises through the simplification of Customs procedures and import and export procedures.

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Due to the wide scope of application of the draft Decree on the National Single Window, many new contents related to many agencies, organizations, individuals and specialized law, so in order to further complete the draft Decree before submitting to the Government for promulgation, the GDVC encourages ministries, sectors, associations and business community to give comments on key issues such as regulations on administrative procedures on the National Single Window Portal; the registration for use and access to the National Single Window Portal and digital signatures; the responsibility of the Customs declarants in carrying out administrative procedures through the National Single Window, the responsibilities of the concerned agencies; regulations on the list of goods subject to specialized inspection before Customs clearance, the principle of specialized inspection, cases exempt from specialized inspection, sampling for specialized inspection, Customs clearance of goods subject to specialized inspection.