Gov’t steps up Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures enforcement
VGP - Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang signed Decision 534/QD-TTg, dated June 19, 2024 approving a project to strengthen the enforcement of the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) and SPS commitments within FTAs.
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By 2025, the project targets to achieve 70 percent of application of sanitary, phytosanitary measures. All personnel in food safety and animal and plant quarantine management will receive training, and a national SPS portal be formed.
Information exchange among cooperatives, businesses, associations, management agencies in localities and the national SPS system will be stepped up through a database.
To that end, the project sets forth a number of tasks and solutions such as raising stakeholders’ awareness of the SPS measures, strengthening the capacity of analyzing and assessing risks of food safety hazards and diseases, harmonizing domestic SPS regulations with international ones, and consolidating the national SPS system.
By 2030, the application rate will reach 100 percent.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang tasked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to work out a project to perfect the structure and functions of the SPS Viet Nam Office and submit it to competent authorities for approval, along with relevant mechanisms.
It was also asked to coordinate with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and other ministries and agencies to review regulations on biodiversity management and conservation.
The Ministry of Health will take the prime responsibility for amending and supplementing food safety regulations./.
