Director General Nguyen Van Can: Arranging officer on the basis of duties and work

	Automatic supervision of goods at Noi Bai airport is piloted from 16 October 2017
	Decision on pilot automatic supervision for goods imported and exported at Noi Bai airport
	Fixed the schedule of implementing Aviation Single Window at Noi Bai Airport

Director General Nguyen Van Can stated at the working session

The restructuring at Noi Bai airport aims to implement policies of the Party and the Government on arrangement of streamlined and effective apparatus to meet the assigned requirements and tasks. Concretizing Decisions of the Ministry of Finance on criteria for establishment and restructuring Customs Branches under provincial, inter-provincial and municipal Customs Departments and Decision on criteria for establishment and restructuring teams under Customs Branches and equivalent units under provincial, inter-provincial and municipal Customs Departments.

Noi Bai International Airport Customs Branch is a major branch in the entire sector and located in a key area. Therefore, its apparatus restructuring has been studied and discussed carefully by the specialized units under the General Department of Vietnam Customs and Ha Noi Customs Department.

Currently, the Noi Bai International Airport Customs Branch is structured in 9 teams, including the Supervision Team in charge of supervising Customs procedures for aircraft on exit, entry or in transit, and goods imported and exported or in transit. The Exit Luggage Customs Procedures Team is in charge of carrying out Customs procedures for passenger and luggage of passengers on exit; The Entry Luggage Customs Procedures Team is in charge of carrying out Customs procedures for passenger and luggage of passengers on entry. The Export Cargo Customs Procedures Team is in charge of carrying out Customs procedures for exported goods under commercial contract, goods temporarily imported for export, temporarily imported goods of duty free shops, goods imported by catering suppliers, bonded warehouses management. The Import Cargo Customs Procedures Team is in charge of carrying out goods imported by individuals and organizations in accordance with the law. The Team of General Affairs is in charge of advising leaders of Customs Branches on summarizing, reporting, handling violations, arranging officers and training, serving, managing assets, storing dossiers and performing duties. The Duty Management Team is in charge of monitoring and collecting tax debt, implementing tax refund, tax accounting, post clearance audit, final settlement for declaration of goods temporarily imported for export. The 2 Customs Enforcement Teams are in charge of advising to senior levels and preventing smuggling of goods and drugs.

At the working session, the units discussed the apparatus restructuring in Noi Bai Airport attaching to management requirements. Based on the units’ opinions, the Director General said that the apparatus of Noi Bai International Airport Customs Branch will be reduced from 9 teams to 6 teams, including General Affairs Team, Customs Enforcement Team, Procedures Team, Supervision Team, Luggage Team and Duty Management Team.

Regarding the Supervision Team, the General Director stressed that the supervision stage must be improved. “The supervision must be based on information collected from many sources to analyze and transfer to other units and ensure the management rather than manual supervision”.

“Based on the work and duties to assign officers rather than based on officers to assign work” the Director General instructed.

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However, before issuing Decision on restructuring units’ functions and tasks including Noi Bai Customs Branch, the Director General requested specialized units to standardize procedures under the new management requirements and specify and unify procedures in the Draft to prevent vacancy in the management.