{"id":1170,"date":"2020-10-30T08:47:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T08:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:48:06","slug":"decree-102-2020-nd-cp-vietnam-timber-legality-assurance-system-vntlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/decree-102-2020-nd-cp-vietnam-timber-legality-assurance-system-vntlas\/","title":{"rendered":"Decree 102\/2020\/N\u0110-CP \u2013 Vietnam Timber Legality Assurance System (VNTLAS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 95%\">Effective from October 30th 2020, This Decree establishes a legal framework to ensure that timber harvested, imported, processed, and exported in Vietnam is legal, especially for exports to the EU under the <strong>VPA\/FLEGT Agreement<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 95%\">Definition: Timber must be sourced, transported, and traded in compliance with Vietnamese laws. <span style=\"color: #333333\">Exporting companies are classified into <\/span>Group I <span style=\"color: #333333\">(low risk) and <\/span>Group II <span style=\"color: #333333\">(higher risk), based on compliance history and capacity to manage legality. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 95%\">FLEGT Licensing: <span style=\"color: #333333\">Required for timber exports to the EU and issued by the <\/span><span style=\"color: #282828\">Vietnam CITES Management Authority<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333333\">for eligible shipments. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 95%\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">Verification System: <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333\">Includes procedures for verifying legality of:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 95%\">Domestic timber (from natural or planted forests)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 95%\">Imported timber<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 95%\">Exported timber<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 95%\">Supply Chain Control: Covers all stages: harvesting, transportation, processing, trading, and exporting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 95%\">Transparency &amp; Accountability: Enterprises must maintain records and allow inspections to verify legality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 95%\"><!--StartFragment --><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 95%\">This decree implements Vietnam\u2019s commitments under the <strong>Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA)<\/strong> with the <strong>European Union (EU)<\/strong>, aiming to combat illegal logging and promote sustainable forest management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><!--EndFragment --><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><!--EndFragment --><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective from October 30th 2020, This Decree establishes a legal framework to ensure that timber harvested, imported, processed, and exported in Vietnam is legal, especially for exports to the EU under the VPA\/FLEGT Agreement. Definition: Timber must be sourced, transported, and traded in compliance with Vietnamese laws. Exporting companies are classified into Group I (low [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawpage.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}