Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee has just issued a document directing the implementation of Official Letter No.1063/TTg-NN dated August 12th 2020 of the Prime Minister on strengthening lead and direct the prevention of illegal fishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU).
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Accordingly, the Provincial People's Committee requested departments, branches, and people's committees of coastal districts, towns and cities, depend on their assigned functions and tasks, to proactively deploy and disseminate the content of the above documents to related organizations and individuals in the province to know and implement. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is assigned to chair, and coordinate with concerned departments, branches and localities in, guiding the implementation and inspection of the implementation of the Prime Minister's directing opinions in Official Dispatch No. 1063/TTg-NN; propose advisory ideas on the contents of responsibility and authority of the Provincial People's Committee before August 30th 2020.
On March 20, 2020, the Secretariat's Standing Committee issued Document No. 81-CV/TW on strengthening lead, direct the effective implementation of prevention and control of illegal fishing, unreported and unregulated. Implementing the direction of Secretariat's Standing Committee in the above-mentioned document, in order to soon remove the "Yellow Card" of the European Commission (EC) for Vietnam's seafood products exported to the European market, determined not to get the "Red Card" warning; To develop a sustainable, responsible fishing industry and international integration, the Prime Minister has issued a written request to the heads of relevant ministries, departments and agencies and People's Committees of provinces and cities in coastal areas directly under central government emphasizes responsibility, directly lead and is accountable to the Prime Minister for the prevention and control of IUU fishing; building action plans to implement the assigned tasks under the direction of the Secretariat's Standing Committee. In which, focus on assigning tasks and solutions with specific routes and plans for each year, each period; regularly inspect and supervise performance results, strengthen coordination among related agencies and units to organize the effective implementation of assigned tasks. Focus on organizing the implementation of the Fisheries Law 2017 and documents guiding the implementation of the Law in localities, urgently implementing the management regulations related to prevent IUU fishing such as: Complete the installation of Vessel monitoring system (VMS), fishing vessel monitoring system and fishing vessel marking. Review and identify ship owners and fishing vessels that are highly likely to violate IUU fishing to take measures to propagate, mobilize, manage, prevent early, detect and promptly handle violations. Closely coordinate with the Ministry of National Defense to manage the operation of local fishing vessels, prevent and terminate local fishing vessels committing violations of fishing in foreign waters; Focus on thoroughly handling acts of intentional violation of fishing in foreign waters and violations of IUU fishing in any form, ensuring the strictness of the law according to the provisions of Decree No. 42/2019/ND-CP dated May 16th 2019 of the Government on sanctioning of administrative violations in the fisheries sector ...
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