On March 26, the Government Office issued Notice No. 118 on the conclusion of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha at the meeting on reviewing and finalizing the draft Decree on the management of dredging activities in seaport areas and inland waterways.
In the announcement, the Deputy Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Transport to continue to study and fully absorb the opinions of delegates at the meeting, and coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies to revise, supplement, and perfect the draft Decree.
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The Deputy Prime Minister noted that it is necessary 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.
At the same time, 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 management and operation of maritime routes and inland waterways (enterprises are responsible for financial and economic efficiency...).
Meanwhile, state management agencies control planning, plans, standards, technical parameters of waterways, safety assurance, mineral resources, and the environment.
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 and avoid policy abuse that negatively affects security, safety, environment and landscape.
The Deputy Prime Minister also directed the Ministry of Transport to study the opinions of the Minister 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; requirements on protecting river beds, banks, and beaches; requirements for activities in water source protection corridors; 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 Deputy Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Transport to study the opinions of the Ministry of Planning and Investment on: 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 enterprises themselves.
In case an enterprise proposes to dredging a public shipping channel together with investing in building a seaport; regulations on the use of legal capital sources outside the budget.
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