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At the First Extraordinary Session of the XVI National Assembly held this morning (August 3), the National Assembly continued to hear reports on two projects: Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Customs Law; Law amending and supplementing Article 6 and Appendix IV on the list of conditional investment and business sectors and trades of the Investment Law. Download Minister of Finance Ngo Van Tuan presented presentations on 02 Law projects at the National Assembly - Photo: VGP/Nhat BacImproving compliance with customs laws. Authorized by the Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Ngo Van Tuan presented presentations on 02 Law projects: Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Customs Law; The Law amends and supplements Article 6 and Appendix IV on the list of conditional investment and business sectors of the Investment Law. Accordingly, the Law amends and supplements a number of articles of the Customs Law to: Create a legal basis for redesigning the customs management process, restructuring and building the information technology system. Strengthen data connectivity between ministries, branches and local authorities. Reform customs procedures, promote voluntary compliance based on classifying the level of legal compliance and risk level of taxpayers and customs declarants. Promote decentralization and decentralization of powers to local customs. Promote the reduction of administrative procedures and reduce costs of implementing administrative procedures. Overcoming shortcomings of the 2014 Customs Law; ensure consistency and synchronization with relevant laws. Strengthen strict inspection of smuggling and trade fraud, and improve compliance with customs laws. The Law is built from the perspective of: Fully institutionalizing the Partys guidelines and policies and the States legal policies on digital transformation, modernization and technology application in State management of customs. Simplify administrative procedures, review, reduce and simplify the composition of customs procedures documents. Ensuring state management requirements on customs, anti-smuggling and trade fraud. Inheriting and promoting regulations that have brought positive socio-economic impacts of the current Customs Law. The law only regulates framework contents of a principled nature. Ensuring the goal of international economic integration, internalizing international treaties and best international practices... The draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Customs Law includes 4 Articles, specifically: Article 1 (Amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Customs Law); Article 2 (Amending and supplementing a number of points and clauses of relevant laws); Article 3 (Implementation provisions); Article 4 (Transitional provisions). In which, 15 articles are amended and supplemented (Articles 13, 14, 22, 35, 44, 46, 57, 79, 81, 84, 90, 94, 97, 98, 99) to be consistent with the titles, names, functions, and tasks according to the new organizational model after the arrangement of the state apparatus. Amend and supplement the concept of bonded warehouse in Clause 10, Article 4. Amend and supplement the concept of customs declarant in Clause 14, Article 4 in the direction of adding a number of subjects who are customs declarants to be consistent with current trade activities and the provisions of the Law on E-commerce and the Law on Tax Administration. Amend and supplement point a, Clause 3, Clause 4, Clause 5, Article 22 in the direction of adding responsibilities of agencies and organizations. When planning and designing construction related to free trade zones, the Government shall regulate in detail the location for customs procedures. Amend and supplement Clause 4, Article 26 in the direction of commodity codes on the List of goods exported and imported under license, according to conditions, List of goods subject to specialized inspection to ensure uniformity of commodity codes according to the List of exported and imported goods of Vietnam regardless of the authority to promulgate the list and the Government. detailing this clause. Supplementing Article 52 with the content assigning the Ministry of Finance to detail customs procedures and customs supervision for exported and imported goods via postal and express delivery services. Amending and supplementing Article 58 in the direction of stipulating that port warehousing enterprises are responsible for carrying out the destruction of goods causing environmental pollution in cases where the owner of the means of transport, the driver of the means of transport or the person authorized to own the means of transport cannot be identified. Authorized transportation. The Customs Authority takes the lead in supervising the destruction. Add to Article 61 the draft Law the content in Clause 2, Article 47 of the current Law on customs inspection and supervision of goods sold at duty-free shops. Add to Article 62 regulations on locations for establishing bonded warehouses, locations for collecting retail goods, locations for gathering, inspection, and supervision of exported and imported goods in free trade zones, logistics centers, centralized digital technology parks, and industrial clusters. At the same time, additional regulations on tax-free goods business locations will be assigned to the Government for detailed regulations. Supplementing regulations that customs authorities proactively suspend customs procedures if during the process of inspection, supervision and control, clear grounds are discovered to suspect that goods in transit are intellectual property counterfeit goods. Remove the regulation temporary suspension of customs procedures does not apply towith goods in transit in Article 73. Download National Assembly delegates at the First Extraordinary Session, National Assembly Session State policies and laws on reducing conditional business investment industries and the control and prohibit
