In July, at a press conference held by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam, officials said that the government will 'revise legal documents on waste import management, taking into account environmental protection, and establishing mechanisms to manage, control and prevent waste trade and imports. In the short term, the government said it would crack down on containers that have been in the port for more than 90 days. According to the press conference, it will also require the port to carefully check the environmental permit for imported waste containers before allowing unloading.
Vietnam Saigon Jiefang Daily reported on August 4 that the Ministry of Transport recently held a meeting to discuss measures to deal with imported waste stored in ports. At present, nearly 6,000 scrap containers are stored in ports across the country, mainly concentrated in the city's ports. According to Saigon Newport Company In order to reduce the pressure on container storage, many units have issued a notice to stop receiving imported waste, and at the same time, transfer the storage container to other ports, and review and clean up, re-export or destroy 2,500 storage containers, because the above containers have been stored for more than 90 day.
In the future, the Ministry of Resources and Environment will announce the company and the list, the waste import indicator. This will be the basis for the maritime companies, the port to determine whether to accept the goods of the enterprise, avoiding the shipment to China and not receiving the goods or the smuggling of waste by various enterprises, resulting in The ports are congested, etc. In addition, only licenses are issued for enterprises with production and reprocessing capabilities. The permitted indicators should not exceed the production capacity of the enterprise. For the period of storage at the port, it must be reduced from 90 days to 30 days, if not Any enterprise will come to collect it, the port will be re-exported, the container will be relocated outside the port, destroyed or cleaned up to increase the port's commodity circulation rate.
Recently, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phúc stressed that it is necessary to review all remaining licenses and stop issuing new waste import licenses. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment should check the approval of past permits and strictly handle illegal officials and enterprises. The Ministry of Trade must also re-examine the issue of re-export of temporary imported waste.
Viet Nam is planning to take legislative action to address the issue of waste imports. The report said that Vietnam will review the legal documents on waste import management to make the necessary amendments. According to the Vietnam Maritime Administration, the unit has requested the relevant authorities to use the commodity code. Imports of steel, plastics, paper stocks, etc., which are imported from different licensed lists, are strengthened. When the maritime companies or shippers propose to obtain the import licenses and promised goods for the goods that have not been expired. Documents such as documents are allowed to move goods from the ship to the port. For the storage of goods that have been stored for more than 90 days, the goods that cause environmental pollution must be re-exported.