What are regulations on procedures for facility-level approval of accident response plans in Vietnam?

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• In Vietnam, what are regulations on procedures for facility-level approval of accident response plans?
•  In Vietnam, what are regulations on duration of radiation-related affair permit and certificates for radiation employees?

In Vietnam, what are regulations on procedures for facility-level approval of accident response plans?

Pursuant to Article 36 of Decree 142/2020/ND-CP stipulating procedures for facility-level approval of accident response plans:

1. Competent agencies capable of approving accident response plans shall be competent agencies capable of issuing radiation-related permit specified under Article 28 of this Decree.

2. Procedures for requesting approval of accident response plans

a) Administrative procedures

Organizations and individuals shall request for approval of accident response plans by any of following methods:

- Online at website of competent agencies specified under Clause 1 of this Article;

- Online or via post service to competent agencies specified under Clause 1 of this Article.

b) Application compositions:

- Official Dispatches requesting approval of accident response plans;

- Accident response plans shall be prepared conforming to Annex II of this Decree.

c) Application quantity: 3 (in case of online or postal application).

d) Deadline for resolution and result return

- Within 5 working days from the date on which applications are received, application receivers must examine adequacy and legitimacy of applications and inform fees in writing in case of adequate applications or request revision in writing in case of inadequate applications;

- Within 15 days from the date on which adequate applications and fees for approval of accident response plans are received, competent agencies are responsible for organizing appraisal of applications and issuing decisions on approving accident response plans;

- In case of not approving accident response plans, before this deadline, competent agencies must respond in writing and provide reasons.

3. In case request for approval of facility-level accident response plans are submitted together with application for permit issuance: Deadline for processing the request shall conform to deadline for processing applications for radiation-related affair permit.

 In Vietnam, what are regulations on duration of radiation-related affair permit and certificates for radiation employees?

Pursuant to Article 37 of Decree 142/2020/ND-CP stipulating duration of radiation-related affair permit and certificates for radiation employees:

1. Radiation-related affair permit shall remain valid for:

a) 12 months for: Import and export of class 4 and class 5 radiation sources according to QCVN 6:2010/BKHCN (issued to each shipment of close radiation sources and to multiple shipments for open radiation sources).

b) 6 months for: Import and export of class 1, class 2 and class 3 radiation sources according to QCVN 6:2010/BKHCN, nuclear materials and nuclear equipment (issued to each shipment).

c) 6 months for: Transit of radiation sources, source materials and nuclear materials.

d) 5 years for operation of irradiators.

dd) 03 years for other radiation-related affairs.

2. Certificates for radiation employees shall last indefinitely.

3. Duration of extended permits shall continue from the expiry date of old permits.

4. Duration of revised, added or reissued permits shall be similar to that of old permits, except for cases specified under Clause 5 of this Article.

5. Duration of permits that are revised to unify previously issued permits that are valid shall be similar to duration of the latest issued permits

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