Accordingly, during the session, members of the National EPR Council reached consensus on approving the draft Circular issuing the Regulation on the management and use of financial contributions to the Vietnam Environment Protection Fund to support recycling of products and packaging and waste treatment by manufacturers and importers; and the Decision promulgating criteria, priorities, and financial support levels for waste treatment activities in 2024 from financial contributions made by manufacturers and importers. These are two essential legal documents for executing EPR regulations in the coming period.

Concurrently, the Council agreed to roll over the financial contribution funds paid by manufacturers and importers into the Vietnam Environment Protection Fund for waste treatment support in 2022 to support waste treatment activities in 2024; and recommended that MONRE promptly disclose and publicize criteria, priorities, and financial support rates for 2024 waste treatment activities so that localities, agencies, and enterprises can prepare dossiers in accordance with requirements and access financial disbursements from 2024.

The Council requested the National EPR Council Assisting Office to urgently complete its personnel structure and establish its Working Regulations and Internal Expenditure Regulations in accordance with legal provisions to bring the Office into prompt operation.

The Council proposed that the Vietnam Environment Protection Fund transfer bank interest accrued from financial deposits paid by manufacturers and importers into the commercial bank account of the National EPR Council Assisting Office once opened, facilitating execution of tasks assigned to the Council and its assisting office.

Delivering concluding remarks at the meeting, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Vo Tuan Nhan directed the Legal Department of MONRE to study and assimilate opinions from the National EPR Council, collaborating with relevant MONRE departments to finalize and promptly submit to the Minister for promulgation the Circular on the Management and Use of Financial Contributions to the Vietnam Environment Protection Fund for recycling support and waste treatment; and to submit for approval the Decision announcing criteria, priorities, and financial support levels for waste treatment in 2024.

Deputy Minister Vo Tuan Nhan also requested National EPR Council Members and related agencies within MONRE to continue cooperating and supporting the Legal Department and Assisting Office in implementing tasks according to their assigned mandates, functions, and authority.

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