Decision No. 58/2000/QD-BTC dated April 21, 2000 of the Ministry of Finance promulgating the table of fee levels for technical expertise and issuance of permits for the use of machinery, equipment, supplies and substances subject to strict safety requirements

Pursuant to the Governments Decree No.15/CP of March 2, 1993 on the tasks, powers and State management responsibility of the ministries and ministerial-level agencies;
Pursuant to the Governments Decree No.178/CP of October 28, 1994 on the tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Finance Ministry;
Pursuant to the Governments Decree No.04/1999/ND-CP of January 30, 1999 on charges and fees belonging to the State budget;
After consulting the relevant ministries and at the proposal of the General Director of Tax,

DECIDES:

Article 1.- To issue together with this Decision the table of fee levels for technical expertise and issuance of permits for the use of machinery, equipment, supplies and substances subject to strict safety requirements.

The technical expertise fee shall apply as follows:

1. For the first-time expertise to issue permits and the regular expertise to extend permits, the fee level shall be 100% of that prescribed in the table.

2. For the regular expertise according to safety technical standards without the permit extension, the fee level shall be 50% of that prescribed in the table.

3. For the irregular expertise according to safety technical standards or at the request of the concerned establishment, the fee level shall be 100% of that prescribed in the table.

Article 2.- Payers of fees at the levels prescribed in this Decision are organizations and individuals (including foreign organizations and individuals, and defense units engaged in economic activities), that have their machinery, equipment, supplies and substances subject to strict safety requirements technically expertized by the safety-expertizing centers set up under decisions of the competent State agencies, and are granted use permits by the labor safety State inspectorate according to law provisions.

Article 3.- The safety-expertizing centers set up by decisions of the competent State agencies shall collect the fees for technical expertise and issuance of permits for the use of machinery, equipment, supplies and substances subject to strict safety requirements (referred collectively to as the collecting agencies) and manage and use such fees as follows:

1. For technical expertise fee:

a/ Where the fee-collecting agencies are regularly provided with the State budget fund for their expertizing activities, they may make a maximum temporary deduction of 10% (ten percent) of the actually collected fee amount to spend on the organization of fee collection according to the provisions at Point 5.b, Section III of the Finance Ministry�s Circular No.54/1999/TT-BTC of May 10, 1999. The remaining collected fee amount (90%) must be remitted to the State budget.

b/ Where the fee-collecting agencies are not regularly provided with State budget fund for their expertizing activities, they may temporarily deduct the collected expertise fee amount before remitting it to the State budget in order to spend on the organization of fee collection and the technical expertise activities according to the expenditure estimates already approved by the competent authorities after getting written consent from the Finance Ministry, provided that the maximum deduction level shall not exceed 90% of the collected fee amount; the remaining fee amount (at least 10%) must be remitted to the State budget.

2. For the permit-issuing fee for the use of machinery, equipment, supplies and substances subject to strict safety requirements, the fee-collecting agencies shall be entitled to deduct 10% of the collected permit-issuing fee amount before remitting it to the State budget for spending on the organization of fee collection; the remaining fee amount (90%) shall be remitted to the State budget.

The fee-collecting agencies shall have to organize the collection, remittance and management of fees according to the provisions of Government�s Decree No.04/1999/ND-CP of January 30, 1999 on charges and fees belonging to the State budget and the Finance Ministry�s Circular No.54/1999/TT-BTC of May 10, 1999 guiding the implementation thereof.

Article 4.- This Decision takes effect 15 days after its signing. The table of fee levels issued together with this Decision shall replace the table issued together with Inter-ministerial Circular No.66-TT/LB of August 29, 1995 of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.

Article 5.- Organizations and individuals being fee payers; units organizing the collection of fees for technical expertise and issuance of permits for the use of machinery, equipment, supplies and substances subject to strict safety requirements and the relevant agencies shall have to implement this Decision.

TABLE OF FEE LEVELS

FOR TECHNICAL EXPERTISE AND ISSUANCE OF PERMITS FOR THE USE OF MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES AND SUBSTANCES SUBJECT TO STRICT SAFETY REQUIREMENTS

(Issued together with the Finance Minister�s Decision No.58/2000/QD-BTC of April 21, 2000)