In accordance with the Decree No. 66/2014/ND-CP dated July 04, 2014 of the National Assembly detailing and guiding a number of articles of the Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
Foreign organizations and individuals and international organizations that participate in the response to and remediation of consequences of natural disasters in Vietnam and import or re-export means, equipment and goods to serve emergency relief, search and rescue, relief and support for natural disaster victims are exempted from import and export duties and fees.
After completion of operations of search and rescue, relief and support for natural disaster victims, means, equipment and goods permitted for import for re-export may have customs procedures cleared at priority gates at airports, seaports and land border gates. Persons permitted to enter Vietnam for natural disaster response and consequence remediation may carry out entry and exit procedures at priority gates at airports, seaports and land border gates; persons engaged in urgent response may be granted visas at border gates.
Besides, the Decree also details the frequency and lengths of time of transmission of information on the direction and command of response to natural disasters. Accordingly, Vietnam Television and Voice of Vietnam shall broadcast documents directing natural disaster response of the Prime Minister, the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and the National Committee for Search and Rescue immediately after receiving them and re-broadcast them at least once every 3 hours for level-3 natural disasters and every 1 hour for level-4 or level-5 natural disasters until they receive new directing documents or responses to natural disasters have been operated or natural disaster developments have changed and no longer cause any consequences.
Within that, the length of time of broadcasting information on directions and commands on response to natural disasters includes the time of broadcasting the full text of competent agencies’ documents directing and commanding response to natural disasters and bulletins on natural disaster forecasts and warnings, clearly stating changes of directing and commanding documents and updates of natural disaster developments and natural disaster response activities.
This Decree takes effect on August 20, 2014.
