TIME LIMIT FOR THE LICENSE FOR INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS
On October 27, 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issues Circular No. 17/2022/TT-BCT on amending and supplementing a number of Articles of the Circular No. 32/2017/TT-BCT specifying and providing guidelines for implementation of certain articles of the law on chemicals and the Government’s Decree No. 113/2017/ND-CP guiding the Law on Chemicals.
Circular No. 17/2022/TT-BCT supplements the time limit of licenses for the production of, or trading in industrial chemicals restricted from production and trading as follows:
The new license has an effective time of 05 years from the issuing date. For persistent organic pollutants (POP), the time limit of the license is 05 years from the issuing date or equals the expiration of the time limit for POP exemption registration prescribed in Decree No. 08/2022/ND-CP.
The time limit for re-granted and adjusted licenses is the remained time of the issued licenses.
Besides, the Circular amends the regulations on the report on chemical operations of organizations, and individuals in the production of, or trading in the industrial chemical industry.
From February 15 of every year, organizations, and individuals in the production of, or trading in the industrial chemical industry shall take responsibility for reporting the chemical operations of the previous year to the Department of Chemical, Departments of Industry and Trade in provinces and cities where the head offices, production, and business plants are located in the Vietnam National Chemical Database System (https://chemicaldata.gov.vn/cms.xc)
Organizations, and individuals in the production of, or trading in the industrial chemical industry shall take responsibility to report when having accidents in the chemical activities or termination of operation of chemical activities to the Departments of Chemical, Departments of Industry and Trade in provinces and central-affiliated cities where the head offices, production and business plants.
Before March 01 of every year, the Departments of Industry and Trade of provinces and central-affiliated cities shall take responsibility to report the management of chemical activities to the Department of Chemical via the Vietnam National Chemical Database System.
This Circular takes effect on December 22, 2022.
