National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department. (Photo: NAFIQAD)
National single window simplifies seafood export certification
VIET NAM
Thursday, September 22, 2016, 03:20 (GMT + 9)
The certification for fisheries exports to Korea and China will be expanded nationwide starting on October 1 under the National Single Window (NSW), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) announced.
Ministry sources explained that this decision to conduct the previous nine administrative procedures via the one-stop system shows the efforts of the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD) to improve one-stop access to the ministry’s services.
“The implementation of E-licensing under the NSW, along with the application of digital signatures has really changed the traditional work of specialized management agencies of the Ministry in approaching the application of modern information technology,” a spokesperson from MARD pointed out.
Under the new initiative, NAFIQAD will coordinate with the General Department of Customs and Viettel ICT to provide training to staff and firms.
Fisheries firms welcomed the initiative but deemed it necessary to carry out certain upgrades.
MARD also stressed that concerning to the expansion of other administrative procedures (phase II) applied in the NSW, in 2016, MARD will continue to expand the deployment of 2 additional administrative procedures at the Department of Animal Health: License quarantine certificate on import animal products (over 25,000 records / year), and Registration import quarantine for animal products imported into Vietnam for importer (4,500 records / year).
Meanwhile, the ministry expressed its intention to implement 30 procedures on the national single window system within four years.
So far, the ministry’s national single window system has received 25,513 files, more than 77 per cent of which were handled as of August 31.
To date 33 administrative procedures of nine ministries were conducted via the national single window system, the General Department of Customs said.
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