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In order to implement this requirement, the General Department of Vietnam Customs implemented a centralized review period (from 7th to 10th June 2017) for the administrative procedures of management policies for exported and imported goods.

Mr. Ngo Minh Hai, Deputy Director of the Customs Control and Supervision Department, said that the review for documents on specialized management and inspections had been conducted regularly by the General Department of Vietnam Customs especially since implementing the Government's guidance in Decision 2026/QD-TTg approving the Scheme on Solutions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of specialized inspections and Resolution 19 in the past 4 years.

It can be seen that the review of administrative procedures on the management policies for imported and exported played an important role in administrative reform. Through the review, the Customs proposed the Government to direct relevant ministries and departments to amend many administrative procedures in a simpler way and facilitate the imports and exports and clearance goods. According to Mr. Hai, it was necessary to review to encrypt the specialized management and inspection documents for e-customs declaration.

During this period, the General Department of Vietnam Customs and the provincial and municipal Customs Departments requested that ministries and sectors should review the entire administrative procedures of the management policies for imported and exported goods, including 270 administrative procedures of management policy. Including import license, export license; Notification of approval or exemption from inspection of quality, food safety, quarantine. Customs also reviews documents required during implementing customs procedures that are not the result of the administrative procedure of a ministry or sector (conditions for importing goods). For example certificate of business registration, investment certificate or business certificate in which the fertilizer business certificate issued by the competent authority.

For each administrative procedure of management policy, it is necessary to review that it is correct and sufficient contents such as: agency which issues documents regulating on management policies; Type of management policy (ban, license, automatic license, quotas, quality control, Veterinary Quarantine, phytosanitary, food safety inspection ...); Administrative procedures; Results of the administrative procedures; Validity of the administrative procedures; Objects of exemption; legal framework; List of applicable goods; Time of document presentation and submission.

The large volume of the list of administrative procedures that regulate the management policy for exported and imported goods, the representative of the Customs Supervision Department also presented the contents that are expected to cause great difficulties when reviewing, such as the list of applicable goods. Because ministries and sectors issued documents which are not unified, are not accompanied by the list, and are accompanied by the list but only regulate one commodity or some commodities, or even the list of commodities such as animal feed is regulated in many documents. Therefore, entire the list of those commodities needs to be reviewed.

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Based on the results of the review, the General Department of Vietnam Customs will develop a list of administrative procedures regulating on management policy for imported and exported goods, in order to apply code and encrypt on the e-customs clearance system as well as synchronized exchange of information with the National Single Window.