FROM JUNE 01, MORE WORKS SUBJECT TO HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION
On April 15, 2020, the Government issues the Decree No. 48/2020/ND-CP on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Government’s Decree No. 38/2016/ND-CP of May 15, 2016, detailing a number of articles of the Law on Hydro-meteorology.
In accordance with this Decree, from the effective date of this Decree, there are many works subject to hydro-meteorological observation under Clause 3, Article 13 of the Law on Hydro-meteorology, specifically:
Firstly, highways in areas with severe weather phenomena determined according to disaster risk zoning announced by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Vietnam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration and updated once every 3 years.
Secondly, general inland waterway ports of category I or higher category. In which, general inland waterway ports of category I or higher category to be observed in terms of visibility, water level, and wind direction and speed, at a frequency of 4 times a day according to Hanoi time at 01:00, 07:00, 13:00 and 19:00.
Thirdly, works of particular nature, including islands belonging to the Spratly archipelago, rigs of economic-technical service clusters (DK1), and military aerodromes serving national defense and security purposes.
Besides, the Government also changes the time to provide hydro-meteorological observation information and data for civil aerodromes on the direction and speed of wind, including gusts, visibility, weather phenomena, cloud, temperature, dew point temperature, and barometric pressure, and additional observation data once every 30 minutes (if available), continuously for 24 hours at aerodromes operating around the clock.
This Decree takes effect on June 01, 2020.
