CIRCULAR

PRESCRIBING UPDATE, USE AND MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DATABASE

Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s Decree No. 15/2017/ND-CP dated February 17, 2017 on functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development;  

Pursuant to the Law on Animal Husbandry dated November 19, 2018;

At the request of the Director General of the Department of Livestock Production;

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development hereby promulgates a Circular prescribing update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database.

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

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This Circular provides for update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database according to regulations in Clause 4 Article 11 of the Law on Animal Husbandry.

Article 2. Regulated entities

This Circular is applicable to organizations and individuals involved in update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database.

Chapter II

NATIONAL ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DATABASE

Article 3. Database of legislative documents on animal husbandry

Database of legislative documents on animal husbandry comprises the legislative documents related to animal husbandry and classified according to regulations in Article 4 of the Law on Promulgation of Legislative Documents.

Article 4. Database of livestock breeds, livestock gene sources, animal feeds and livestock waste treatment products

1. Data on livestock breeds, including:

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b) Data on producers of livestock sperms, embryos and larvae, and incubator facilities, including name, phone number, email (if any); address of production facility; breed of sperms, embryos, larvae or eggs; production scale and quantity;

c) Data on individual providers of artificial insemination and embryo transfer in livestock breeding, including name, phone number, email (if any), address; number of sperm doses inseminated per year or number of embryos transferred per year;

d) Data on owners of boars, male buffalos and bulls used for direct cross-breeding for commercial purpose, including name, phone number, email (if any), address; scale, breed and number of male studs, annual cross-breeding result (if any);

e) Data on livestock breed and livestock line testing facilities, including name, phone number, email (if any) and address of facility; scale of production of livestock for testing and testing capacity (maximum number of livestock lines, livestock breeds and individuals that can be tested); livestock breed or livestock line accreditation tasks;

g) List of livestock breeds in need of conservation;

h) List of livestock breeds prohibited from export.

2. Data on livestock gene sources, consisting of:

a) Data on collectors of livestock gene sources, including name, phone number, email (if any), and address; name, quantity, collecting site, biological criteria and uses of each gene source;

b) Data on organizations and individuals involved in conservation of livestock gene sources, including name, phone number, email (if any), address; name, quantity, conservation site and conservation method of each gene source;

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3. Data on animal feeds, consisting of:

a) Data on commercial animal feeds producing facilities granted certificate of eligibility for animal feed production by Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development, including name, phone number, email (if any), address and design capacity of facility; number, date of issuance and issuer of certificate of eligibility for animal feed production;

b) Data on commercial animal feeds producing facilities granted certificate of eligibility for animal feed production by Department of Livestock Production, including name, phone number, email (if any), address and design capacity of facility; number and date of issuance of certificate of eligibility for animal feed production;

c) Data on animal feed importers, including name, phone number, email (if any) and address;

d) Data on animal feed trading facilities, including name, phone number, email (if any) and address of facility;

dd) Data on animal feed testing facilities, including name, phone number, email (if any), address and scale of facility;

e) Data on commercial animal feed output, including product name, quantity and user;

g) Data on imported animal feeds, including product name, imported weight, import turnover and product origin;

h) List of chemicals and biological or microbial products prohibited from use in animal feeds;

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k) Data on designated feed analysis laboratories, including name, phone number, email (if any) and address of laboratory; designated analysis, date of designation, end of designation and designating body;

l) Data on designated eligibility assessment bodies for animal feeds, including name, phone number, email (if any) and address; scope of service, date of designation, end of designation and designating body.

4. Data on livestock waste treatment products, comprising:

a) Data on facilities manufacturing livestock waste treatment products, including name, phone number, email (if any), address and design capacity of facility;

b) Data on facilities testing livestock waste treatment products, including name, phone number, email (if any) and address of facility;

c) Data on names and quantity of livestock waste treatment products, and applicable standards.

Article 5. Database of livestock production premises, animal product processing facilities and animal product markets

1. Data on livestock production premises, consisting of:

a) Data on organizations and individuals involved in animal husbandry, including name, ID number of livestock production premises, email (if any), address; species, quantity of livestock, breeds, production methods and output;

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c) Data on certificates of livestock production premises, including number, date of issuance and issuer of certificate of eligibility for animal husbandry; number, date of issuance and issuer of certificate of good husbandry practice; number, date of issuance and issuer of certificate of biosafe farm;

d) Data on designated eligibility assessment bodies, including name, phone number, email (if any) and address; date of designation, end of designation and designating body.

2. Data on animal product processing facilities, including name, ID number, phone number, email (if any) and address of facility; food safety certificate and date of issuance and issuer thereof; capacity, commodity, product type, origin of ingredients; quantity of ingredients procured (domestically/internationally), output, export value, consumption markets (domestic/foreign).

3. Data on animal product markets, comprising:

a) Data on price, including prices for studs, products from livestock breeds; complete feeds for fattening pigs and poultry; a number of main ingredients of animal feeds; and main animal products;

b) Data on export and import markets for animal products, including export countries, import countries; quantity and types of products; specifications, export value and import value;

c) Data on international conventions, including the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the SPS Agreement) and commercial commitments (tariff and non-tariff), Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (the TBT Agreement), and documents providing for sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade of import countries.

Article 6. Database of disease-free zones

Data on disease-free zones, including zone name and address, livestock species, livestock production scale; certified diseases (epidemics), methods for biosafety control; number and date of issuance of certificate of disease-free zone.

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1. Data on livestock science and technology, consisting of:

a) Results of scientific research on animal husbandry;

b) Technologies applied to animal husbandry;

c) List of national standards and national technical regulations for animal husbandry; technical procedures; economic-technical quota; technical advancements.

2. Data on animal disease prevention according to regulations of laws on veterinary medicine, including epidemics, susceptible species, epidemic sites and livestock loss.

3. Data on facilities whose certificate of eligibility for animal husbandry, certificate of disease-free zones, certificate of good husbandry practice; certificate of biosafe farm or certificate of eligibility for animal feed production is revoked.

4. Data on facilities whose decision on designation of eligibility assessment body or decision on designation of feed analysis laboratory is revoked or suspended.

Chapter III

UPDATE AND USE OF NATIONAL ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DATABASE

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1. The contents prescribed in Article 3 and Point a Clause 3 Article 5 of this Circular shall be updated on a monthly basis, before the 30th of each month.

2. The contents prescribed in Points a and b Clause 1; Point a Clause 2; Points a, b, c and d Clause 3; and Points a and c Clause 4 of Article 4; Clause 1 Article 5 and Article 6 of this Circular shall be updated on a quarterly basis, before the 30th of the last month of each quarter.

3. The contents prescribed in Points c, d, dd, e, g and h Clause 1; Points b and c Clause 2; Points dd, e, g, h, i, k and l Clause 3; and Point b Clause 4 of Article 4; Clause 2 and Points b and c Clause 3 of Article 5 and Article 7 of this Circular shall be updated on an annual basis, before December 30 of each year

Article 9. Use of national animal husbandry database

1. The bodies acting as the contact points for development and update of the national animal husbandry database at central and provincial levels have the right to use such database as authorized.

2. The bodies and individuals holding the right to use the national animal husbandry database are specified in Articles 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 herein.

Chapter IV

MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DATABASE

Article 10. Management of accounts used to update national animal husbandry database

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2. For grant and locking of update accounts: the Department of Livestock Production shall grant and lock update accounts of individuals (officials and public employees) and bodies (administrative authorities).

3. Management of update accounts:

a) A body granted an update account shall assign its members to update, use and manage the national animal husbandry database according to regulations of laws;

b) An individual granted an update account has the power to secure, update, use and manage the national animal husbandry database, and shall use the account as prescribed by law.

4. An update account will be locked if:

a) The body to which the account is granted dissolves, terminates its operation or undergoes a transfer process; or

b) The individual to whom the account is granted transfers to another workplace, resigns or retires.

Article 11. Management of national animal husbandry database

1. Develop and operate infrastructure and software of the national animal husbandry database to ensure system-wide consistent data connection and sharing. Such development and operation are funded by the state budget and private sources.

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3. Manage access to and update of information in the database.

4. Monitor use of the database.

5. Provide training to the workforce, and support operation and use of the database.

Article 12. Assurance of safety of national animal husbandry database

1. Use copyrighted security software and apply technologies to detect and prevent unauthorized network access.

2. Employ encrypted channels and authentication for the following operations: Login to manage the system; application login; automatic data transmission between servers; and data input and edit.

3. Encrypt database connections.

4. Implement measures to ensure data authenticity and protect data integrity.

5. Perform professional operations to ensure system security, including keeping logs of data access, creation, modification and deletion to manage and monitor the system.

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7. Back up data periodically and protect backups by implementing data hiding and encryption measures.

8. Take other necessary measures to protect the database.

Chapter V

RESPONSIBILITIES OF RELEVANT BODIES AND INDIVIDUALS

Article 13. Responsibilities of Department of Animal Husbandry

1. Take charge in developing the national animal husbandry database.

2. Take charge in providing guidelines on reporting figures of service to update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database and nationwide information compilation for relevant bodies and individuals.

3. Take charge in operating, maintaining, monitoring and upgrading infrastructure and software, and implementing measures to ensure safety of the national animal husbandry database.

4. Manage administrator accounts; authorize update and use of the national animal husbandry database.

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6. Evaluate and rank the capacity for update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database of bodies, and announce such information annually.

7. Cooperate with relevant bodies and individuals in handling difficulties that arise during update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database.

8. Invest in and develop infrastructure of service to update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database.

9. Organize update of the data mentioned in Article 3; Points e, g and h Clause 1; Points b and c Clause 2; Points b, c, dd, c, g, h, i, k and l Clause 3; and Points b and c Clause 4 of Article 4; Point d Clause 1 Article 5; Point c Clause 1 and Clause 4 Article 7 of this Circular; and take responsibility for the timeliness, accuracy and adequacy of information updated to the national animal husbandry database.

Article 14. Responsibilities of affiliates of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

1. Department of Science Technology and Environment shall

a) Direct and provide guidelines on reporting figures of service to update, use and management of the national animal husbandry science and technology database for relevant bodies and individuals;

b) Cooperate with the Department of Livestock Production in update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database according to its assigned tasks and powers;

c) Inspect implementation of regulations on update, use and management of the national animal husbandry science and technology database prescribed in this Circular;

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2. Department of Animal Health shall

a) Direct and provide guidelines on reporting figures of service to update, use and management of the national databases of livestock disease prevention and surveillance; disease-free zones and imported animal feeds of animal origin for relevant bodies and individuals;

b) Cooperate with the Department of Livestock Production in update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database according to its assigned tasks and powers;

c) Inspect implementation of regulations on update, use and management of the national databases of livestock disease prevention and surveillance; disease-free zones and imported animal feeds of animal origin specified in this Circular;

d) Organize update of the data concerning imported animal feeds of animal origin mentioned in Points c and g Clause 3 Article 4; Article 6 and Clause 2 Article 7 of this Circular; and take responsibility for the timeliness, accuracy and adequacy of information updated to the national animal husbandry database.

3. Agro Processing and Market Development Authority shall

a) Direct and provide guidelines on reporting figures of service to update, use and management of the national animal product processing database for relevant bodies and individuals;

b) Cooperate with the Department of Livestock Production in update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database according to its assigned tasks;

c) Inspect implementation of regulations on update, use and management of the national database of animal product processing and of domestic and international markets prescribed in this Circular;

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4. Plant Protection Department shall

a) Direct and provide guidelines on reporting figures of service to update, use and management of the national database of imported animal feeds of plant origin for relevant bodies and individuals;

b) Cooperate with the Department of Livestock Production in update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database according to its assigned tasks and powers;

c) Inspect implementation of regulations on update, use and management of the national database of imported animal feeds of plant origin prescribed in this Circular;

d) Organize update of the data concerning imported animal feeds of plant origin mentioned in Points c and g Clause 3 Article 4 of this Circular; and take responsibility for the timeliness, accuracy and adequacy of information updated to the national animal husbandry database.

5. Centre for Informatics and Statistics shall

a) Take charge in reporting figures of service to update, use and management of the national domestic and international markets database and provide guidelines thereon for relevant bodies and individuals;

b) Cooperate with the Department of Livestock Production in update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database according to its assigned tasks and powers;

c) Organize update of the data mentioned in Clause 3 Article 5 of this Circular; and take responsibility for the timeliness, accuracy and adequacy of information updated to the national animal husbandry database.

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1. Direct development, update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database and provide training in such tasks for relevant bodies and individuals in their provinces.

2. Cooperate with the Department of Livestock Production in update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database according to its powers and assigned tasks.

3. Inspect implementation of regulations on update, use and management of the national crop production database and provision of information thereof prescribed in this Circular of relevant bodies and individuals within their provinces.

4. Invest in and develop infrastructure of service to development, update, use and management of the national animal husbandry database within their provinces.

5. Organize update of the data mentioned in Points a, b, c, d and dd Clause 1; Point a Clause 2; Points a, d and e Clause 3; and Point a Clause 4 of Article 4; Points a, b and c Clause 1 Article 5; and Clause 3 Article 7 of this Circular; and take responsibility for the timeliness, accuracy and adequacy of information updated to the national animal husbandry database.

Article 16. Responsibilities of relevant bodies and individuals

1. Comply with regulations in this Circular and relevant regulations of laws on update and use of the national animal husbandry database.

2. Designated eligibility assessment bodies shall update the data on certificates of good husbandry practice and biosafe farm certificates prescribed in Point c Clause 1 Article 5 herein.

3. Collectors of livestock gene sources shall update the data prescribed in Point a Clause 2 Article 4 herein.

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Chapter VI

IMPLEMENTATION

Article 17. Effect

This Circular takes effect from January 07, 2020.

Article 18. Implementing responsibilities

During the implementation of this Circular, any problem arising should be reported to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in writing for consideration and amendment./.

PP. THE MINISTER
THE DEPUTY MINISTER




Phung Duc Tien

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