Responsibilities of government agencies. The responsibilities of government agencies in the development, verification and approval of verifiers are specified in Appendices 1A and 1B to this Annex and summarised in Table 1.
Responsibilities of government agencies. The Government of Viet Nam assigns overall responsibility for the organisation classification system and risk‑based verification to the Central FPD and the Provincial FPD. The Central FPD has responsibility for: – preparing implementation guidelines on the OCS based on regulations issued by the government; – creating and managing the centralised Organisations classification and OCS database; – managing the centralised database of violations of the Law on Forest Protection and Development; – deciding on the risk‑category status of Organisations based on the appraisal results notified by the Provincial FPD or other entities authorised by the government; – publicising and updating the list of Organisations in each risk category on the FPD website. The Provincial FPD or other entities authorised by the government has responsibility for: – receiving the self‑assessment of Organisations registering into the system and appraising the self‑assessment; – reassessing the classification status of Organisations as specified in Table 3 of this Annex; – monitoring the compliance of Organisations with the classification criteria in a timely manner through documentary and field checks to detect any non‑compliance and to propose to the Central FPD any change in the category status of Organisations from Category 1 to Category 2; – liaising with other provincial government agencies and verification entities to verify the compliance status of Organisations; – reporting the results of the appraisal to the Central FPD for decision and public announcement by the Central FPD; – reporting to the Central FPD any cases of non‑compliance by Organisations in the assessment period, which shall be managed and maintained in the Organisation classification and OCS database by the Central FPD.
Responsibilities of government agencies. The timber supply chain control system is conducted by a number of government agencies, of which the local Forest Protection Agencies have the main responsibility for conducting checks at each stage of the supply chain and archiving documents, as specified in Appendix 2. The responsibility of Forest Protection Agencies for supply chain control includes:
(a) reception, entry and archiving of supply chain declarations by Organisations and Households.
(b) systematic, random and ad hoc physical inspections, in particular on the basis of the analyses of supply chain data.
(c) analysis of data to provide for volumebased reconciliations between:
(i) quantitative data at different stages of the supply chain as identified in Section 6.2;
(ii) quantitative data of suppliers and buyers;
(iii) data declared by Organisations and Households and the physical batch of timber;
(iv) input and output analysis at processing sites;
(v) Organisations and Households in the context of investigations of suspicious timber flows.
(d) verification and endorsement of information in input and output monitoring books of Organisations handling timber from domestic natural forests.
(e) inspection of input and output monitoring books of Organisations as part of systematic inspection and ad hoc inspection on suspicion of risk. The above reconciliation functions are carried out at each stage of the supply chain in accordance with existing procedures as well as datacollection and management systems, to be revised or developed before the FLEGT licensing regime is operational. Supply chain control is conducted according to a plan including systematic and random checks. Ad hoc checks are conducted on identifying or receiving any information on any sign of violation by Organisations and Households. At each stage of the supply chain, the checks by the Forest Protection Agency include the following elements:
(a) conformity between the timber product dossier and actual timber;
(b) archiving of the timber product dossier;
(c) examination of other verifiers relevant to different categories of timber at each stage of the supply chain for Households and Organisations;
(d) on identification of suspicious timber flows, checking conformity between suppliers and buyers. The responsibility of the customs authority for the control of transit timber includes:
(a) reception, entry and archiving of customs dossiers by traders.
(b) systematic, random and ad hoc documentary and physical inspections, in particular ...
Responsibilities of government agencies. The timber supply chain control system is conducted by a number of government agencies, of which the local Forest Protection Agencies have the main responsibility for conducting checks at each stage of the supply chain and archiving documents, as specified in Appendix 2. The responsibility of Forest Protection Agencies for supply chain control includes:
