The Government Office has just announced the conclusion of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha at a meeting on reviewing and finalizing the draft Decree on the management of dredging activities in seaport areas and inland waterways (replacing Decree 159/2018).
It is necessary to clearly and transparently regulate and control the recovery of products from dredging activities to ensure overall efficiency (Illustration photo).
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested the Ministry of Transport to continue to study and fully absorb the opinions of delegates, and coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies to revise and complete the draft Decree.
In particular, it is important to carefully review the decentralization to localities to ensure the principle of unifying state management of maritime and inland waterways from the central to local levels, complying with relevant legal regulations, not leaving legal gaps or disrupting or affecting maritime and inland waterway activities.
The Ministry of Transport also needs to review, supplement and adjust regulations to encourage and attract maximum social resources and legal capital sources outside the state budget to carry out dredging work and manage the operation of maritime routes and inland waterways (enterprises are responsible for financial and economic efficiency...).
State management agencies will control planning, plans, standards, technical parameters of waterways, safety assurance, mineral resources, and environment.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha noted that the main purpose of selecting investors is to carry out dredging and maintenance of shipping channels and inland waterways.
Therefore, it is necessary to clearly and transparently regulate and control the recovery of products (sand, gravel, minerals, etc.) from dredging activities to ensure overall efficiency, avoid policy abuse, and cause negative impacts on security, safety, environment, and landscape.
At the same time, the Ministry of Transport will study the opinions of the Ministry of National Defense to revise and supplement regulations in the direction of ensuring the general principles of application for dredging activities in seaport waters and inland waterway waters in general and having specific regulations for dredging activities serving military and defense purposes.
At the same time, accept the opinions of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on compliance with regulations on dumping dredged materials at sea, as well as requirements on protecting river beds, banks, and beaches, requirements for activities in water source protection corridors, and regulations on the responsibilities of provincial People's Committees for planning and arranging dumping areas at sea and areas for dumping dredged materials on shore.
The Ministry of Transport also needs to study the opinions of the Ministry of Planning and Investment on the criteria and conditions for competent authorities to consider approving organizations and enterprises to carry out dredging of public shipping channels and inland waterways using capital mobilized by the enterprises themselves.
In addition, the case study of a business proposing to dredging a public shipping channel along with investing in building a seaport, as well as regulations on the use of legal capital sources outside the budget, is also included.
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