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Vietnam Biodiversity Law: Protecting and Conserving the Nation's Natural Heritage

This introduction provides an overview of the proposed Biodiversity Law in Vietnam, aimed at addressing the degradation of biodiversity and ensuring the sustainable development of the country. The law will unify state management, promote international cooperation, and establish provisions for protected areas and genetic resource conservation.

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Vietnam Biodiversity Law: Protecting and Conserving the Nation's Natural Heritage

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  1. MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT INTRODUCTION ONTHE BIODIVERSITY LAWPresented by: Huynh Thi MaiDepartment of Environment - MONRE Hanoi, 22-23/5/2007

  2. REQUESTS TO DEVELOP THE BIODIVERSITY LAW Vietnam is ranked the 16 among 25 countries with high biodiversity - Vietnam biodiversity is sharply reduced by many causes Vietnam has promulgated a range of legal documents Participated almost key international conventions regarding to biodiversity The existing legal system is still insufficient MONRE was assigned to coordinate with other ministries and related ministerial agencies in drafting the Law to submit to the National Assembly. The Biodiversity Law will be prepared in two steps

  3. OBJECTIVES Long-term objectives: To solve the problem of biodiversity degradation; preserve the ecoregions with a high level of biodiversity; protect rare, valuable, endangered and wild species; ensure genetic sustainability to achieve ecological balance at a sustainable level to serve the country’s sustainable development goal. Short-term objectives: To build and complete the Biodiversity Law to submit to the National Assembly for approval.

  4. VIEWPOINTS, PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES(1) To concretize the Party’s Documents, Constitution of the SRV in 1992 and the Party’s Resolution No.41/NQ-TW To unify and harmonize with the current system of laws with consideration of reforming the laws on environment in the future To clearly identify scope of regulations with related laws The Biodiversity Law must have gathered and coded results of regulations on the biodiversity in the different Laws and documents under laws

  5. VIEWPOINTS, PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES(2) 5. To unify state management on biodiversity 6. To pay attention to the benefits of related parties 7. To consider and learn selectively from other countries’ experience 8. To conform to legislation reform requirements

  6. THE BIODIVERSITY LAW FRAMEWORK Chapter I: General provisions Chapter II: Planning, establishment and management of protected areas Chapter III: Conservation of endangered animals and plants Chapter IV: Conservation of, access to and benefit sharing from genetic resources Chapter V: Biosafety Chapter VI: International cooperation for biodiversity conservation Chapter VII: Mandate, responsibilities, management organization and resourcesfor biodiversity conservation Chapter VIII: Implementation provisions

  7. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

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