Compliance management and assessment have been computerised and automated, while the compliance level of enterprises is publicised to meet the requirements of modern customs management.

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Automatically ranking enterprises

So far, Customs has organized compliance assessments and risk rankings for nearly 150,000 import-export enterprises. Every year, the Risk Management Department under the General Department of Customs has collected and updated information on tens of thousands of enterprise records, classified them and selected about 500 enterprises for post-clearance inspection to assess their compliance.

Currently, the risk management system which has been fully designed both in terms of legal framework and processes, risk management measures and compliance management, creates the basis for the application of risk and compliance management in customs operations.

According to the Department of Risk Management, the compliance management and assessment is conducted automatically, the compliance level of enterprises is publicised to meet management requirements. The assessment and rankings of enterprises are automatically performed by the system every day based on updated information on the enterprise's profile and in accordance with the provisions of Circular No. 81/2019 dated November 15, 2019 of the Ministry of Finance on risk management in customs operations.

The Risk Management Department has proactively proposed a mechanism to manage, analyse and assess compliance for enterprises (from 4th, 5th to 2nd, 3rd), and make a list of these enterprises to apply appropriate control measures on the basis of risk assessment.

For the first six months of 2021, the Risk Management Department reviewed enterprises with daily changes of rank for channelling and sent information about 68,956 times of enterprises changing their risk ranks to the VCIS system.

Ensuring timeliness and accuracy

In the short term, the Risk Management Department will continue the mechanism to manage and assess risks periodically for enterprises that changed ranks; regularly monitor and disclose the results of the compliance assessment, work with the Department of Information Technology and Customs Statistics to study and introduce solutions to overcome shortcomings and errors in the disclosure and ranks of enterprises.

The unit will also finalize the information indicators and the issue of management of enterprises’ profiles, conduct compliance and risk assessment for other customs declarants (besides enterprises engaging in import, export or transit of goods) and port, warehouse and yard operators in accordance with Circular 81.

Along with that, the unit will review and develop additional criteria and assessment mechanisms for specific enterprises.

The Director of Risk Management Department Nguyen Nhat Kha said the Customs sector as well as ministries and sector will conduct an assessment of the compliance level with the law of enterprises which import goods subject to quality inspection and food safety inspection to identify and classify them.

At the same time, the unit will assess and classify the risk level for goods according to the criteria for foreign exporters and manufacturers.

The principle of risk management is widely and substantively carried out to help risk classification to arrange reasonable resources for inspection. The inspection agency will focus on inspecting and controlling high-risk goods of enterprises that do not comply with the law and high-risk shipments.