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Continuing to amend the Customs Law is extremely urgent to meet new practical conditions, with a focus on digital customs transformation and smart customs. Download Minister of Finance Ngo Van Tuan reported at the Meeting. Continuing the program of the 4th Meeting, on the afternoon of July 14, the National Assembly Standing Committee reviewed and commented on the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Customs Law. According to Minister of Finance Ngo Van Tuan, the current Customs Law has been promulgated and implemented for 12 years, undergoing 5 amendments. However, facing the strong development requirements of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution, especially the explosion of e-commerce, along with the need to promote administrative procedure reform and streamline the two-level government, continuing to amend the Customs Law is extremely urgent to meet new practical conditions, with a focus on digital customs transformation and smart customs. The draft law includes 2 articles with 5 major groups of amendments and supplements. Specifically. is to reduce and simplify administrative procedures and implement digital customs: Convert regulations on documents in customs dossiers from electronic documents to electronic data messages to serve digital customs operations. Abolish the conditions for customs clearance agents and customs clearance agent staff. Extend the storage period for goods stored at bonded warehouses, duty-free business locations, and retail collection locations (CFS); At the same time, the extension application procedure is abolished to create maximum convenience for businesses. Minimize the reporting regime of enterprises, increase the application of information technology in management work. Promote decentralization and decentralization: This amendment and supplement will increase decentralization for the Government to detail the contents of 8 articles of the Law. Assign additional tasks to the Minister of Finance to detail and guide a number of specific contents in 7 articles. Add new regulations to match the trend: Add new legal concepts including: customs inspection, compliance management in customs management and duty-free business locations. The bill also adds Article 16a with separate regulations on customs inspection and supervision of import and export goods traded through e-commerce platforms, ensuring synchronization with the E-commerce Law. Amending and completing regulations to synchronize with the legal system and practice: The Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Customs Law will amend and supplement 15 articles to standardize titles, names, functions and tasks, in accordance with the new state apparatus organization model after being arranged and streamlined. Amend the concepts of bonded warehouse and customs declarant to be consistent with the Law on E-commerce and the Law on Tax Administration. At the same time, it clearly stipulates the responsibilities of competent agencies, organizations and individuals in the planning, design and construction of works related to free trade zones... The bill also abolishes inappropriate regulations related to tax-protected warehouses and customs inspection and supervision of goods sold at duty-free shops.. Preliminary examination of the Law project, the Standing Committee of Law and Justice approved the necessity and scope of amendments to the law. Law project. It is recommended to continue to review and improve inadequate regulations to ensure convenience for businesses; At the same time, for new regulations, it is necessary to ensure consistency with the legal system, fully assess the impact and investment requirements in digital infrastructure before submitting to the National Assembly for consideration and approval. The Standing Committee on Law and Justice basically approved the direction of amending regulations on administrative procedures in the direction of taking administrative procedure reform and digital transformation as the focus. However, it is recommended to continue reviewing to reduce the time for handling administrative procedures, perfecting the customs management mechanism for e-commerce and regulations on transportation routes and post-customs clearance inspection in the direction of transparency, creating favorable conditions for businesses and improving state management efficiency. Continue to review the content of detailed regulations to ensure transparency, consistency and feasibility in implementation, avoiding legal gaps. At the same time, review and clarify the content, functions and relationships between information systems serving electronic customs; Supplementing regulations on connection, communication, and data sharing between customs authorities and relevant agencies and organizations to ensure unity, synchronization, and improve management efficiency. Regarding some specific contents of the draft Law, the Standing Committee on Law and Justice agreed with the proposal to add regulations on customs inspection. However, to ensure feasibility and transparency in implementation, the inspection agency recommends clarifying the scope, grounds, methods and procedures of inspection; Clearly distinguish between customs inspection and other specialized assessment activities; Specific provisions on the right to complain of businesses, the legal value of inspection results, as well as the handling mechanism when re-evaluation results are available. Related to management of customs clearance agentssecurity, the inspection agency recommends adjustments in the direction of the Ministry of Finance only promulgating standards and technical regulations; On that basis, the authorities build appropriate management processes to improve the effectiveness of post-inspection work. With the proposal to pilot the customs model as the only specialized inspection focal point, the Law and Justice Committee highly appreciates the solution of connecting and sharing specializ
