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 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:
Responsibilities of government agencies. The Government of Viet Nam assigns overall responsibility for the organisation classification system and riskbased 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 riskcategory 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 selfassessment of Organisations registering into the system and appraising the selfassessment; – 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 noncompliance 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 noncompliance by Organisations in the assessment period, which shall be managed and maintained in the Organisation classification and OCS database by the Central FPD.
