ANTD.VN - The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed transferring the management of national petroleum reserves to the Ministry of Finance , however, the Ministry of Finance said this was inappropriate.
The Ministry of Finance has just issued Official Dispatch No. 13834/BTC-TCDT to the Government Office reporting on petroleum reserve work.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade's management of national petroleum reserves is appropriate.
In particular, the Ministry of Industry and Trade's proposal to the Government to transfer the task of managing the national reserve of petroleum products from the Ministry of Industry and Trade to the Ministry of Finance in the 2024-2025 period is considered inappropriate.
The Ministry of Finance said that according to the provisions of Article 8 and Article 21 of the Law on National Reserves; Clause 1, Article 7 of Decree No. 94/2013/ND-CP dated August 21, 2013 of the Government (Decree No. 94) detailing the implementation of the Law on National Reserves and Article 1 of Decree No. 128/2015/ND-CP dated December 15, 2015 amending and supplementing Decree No. 94; the Ministry of Industry and Trade is assigned by the Government to manage the national reserve petroleum products, and the Ministry of Finance is responsible for state management of the national reserve sector.
Furthermore, petroleum is a special commodity, flammable, toxic and a conditional business; storage, transportation, purchase, sale, import and export must comply with strict technical standards; petroleum tanks, pipeline systems and means of transport must be specialized and specific.
Therefore, the national petroleum management agency must be a competent agency with expertise and professionalism; and have the function of state management of the industry and field.
Based on the assigned functions, tasks and powers, the Ministry of Industry and Trade is the agency assigned by the Government to perform the state management function of industry and trade, including the following sectors and fields: Electricity, coal, oil and gas, energy, etc.
“Therefore, the Government's assignment of the Ministry of Industry and Trade to manage the national reserve petroleum products is consistent with its functions, tasks, and capacity and actual conditions of the organization and management apparatus of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
In case the Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes to amend the provisions in Decree No. 94/2013/ND-CP dated August 21, 2013 of the Government to transfer the national petroleum reserve from the Ministry of Industry and Trade to the Ministry of Finance for management; the Ministry of Finance requests the Ministry of Industry and Trade to carefully assess the legal basis, advantages, disadvantages, solutions and implementation roadmap to have a basis to report to competent authorities for consideration and decision" - the Ministry of Finance emphasized.
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The Ministry of Finance believes that it is appropriate for the Ministry of Industry and Trade to manage the national petroleum reserves. |
Ministry of Industry and Trade does not increase or compensate for purchases of gasoline and oil for national reserves
In a document sent to the Government leaders, the Ministry of Industry and Trade stated that separate storage of petroleum products has not been implemented because there is no national petroleum reserve of the state, and petroleum enterprises must be hired to store them.
However, the Ministry of Finance said that since the Law on National Reserves was issued in 2012, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has stored national reserve petroleum together with commercial petroleum under storage contracts and storage contract appendices signed with 04 enterprises and has not selected storage enterprises according to regulations.
Every year (from 2014 to 2022), the Ministry of Industry and Trade will carry forward the storage contracts signed in 2014 through contract appendices to store national reserve petroleum; in 2023, no contract has been signed to store national reserve petroleum.
Regarding the import and export of national reserve petroleum: Since the promulgation of the National Reserve Law, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has not developed and implemented increased purchases, additional purchases, or compensatory purchases of national reserve petroleum.
National reserve gasoline has never been used for export according to the provisions of the National Reserve Law; only exported for sale, exported for conversion of types, and exported for annual loss according to the norm.
According to the provisions of Article 37 of the Law on National Reserves, the Ministry of Industry and Trade is responsible for developing a plan for rotating goods exchange and sending it to the Ministry of Finance for synthesis and submission to the Prime Minister for decision and implementation within the planning year.
Every year, the Prime Minister does not approve the plan to rotate and exchange national reserve gasoline and oil because national reserve gasoline and oil are stored by the Ministry of Industry and Trade together with the business gasoline and oil, and the storage time and actual quantity of national reserve gasoline and oil rotated and exchanged cannot be determined.
The conversion of Diesel 0.25%S to Diesel 0.05%S DTQG is the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Regarding the problem raised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade regarding the conversion of DO 0.25S oil type to DO 0.05S DTQG, the Ministry of Finance stated that, according to regulations, before converting DO 0.25S oil type to DO 0.05S DTQG, the Ministry of Industry and Trade must develop a plan for the minimum selling price of DO 0.25S oil and a plan for the maximum buying price of DO 0.05S DTQG oil and send it to the Ministry of Finance to promulgate the minimum selling price and maximum buying price.
However, the Ministry of Industry and Trade did not develop a price plan dossier but immediately carried out the conversion, which is not in accordance with regulations. The responsibility belongs to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The conversion of the type was completed in 2015, therefore, the Ministry of Finance does not have enough legal basis to determine the purchase and sale prices of the oil type that has been implemented. The Ministry of Finance requests the Ministry of Industry and Trade to report to the Prime Minister, clearly stating the problems and handling plans according to the provisions of law, and submit to the Prime Minister for direction and handling of difficulties and obstacles in converting the type of Diesel 0.25%S to Diesel 0.05%S DTQG.
Regarding the conversion of Ron 92 gasoline to Ron 95 DTQG, the Ministry of Finance also requested the Ministry of Industry and Trade to develop a conversion plan as it has done in converting Diesel 0.25%S to Diesel 0.05%S DTQG; using the money from selling RON 92 gasoline to buy RON 95 DTQG gasoline, the state budget will not compensate for the cost of conversion.
In particular, the Ministry of Industry and Trade selects options for calculating prices, the difference between selling and buying prices, and contents related to buying and selling prices, and coordinates with relevant units to clarify the reasons why the conversion of DTQG gasoline types cannot be applied by asset auction methods, open bidding methods, restricted bidding methods, etc., but is carried out by appointment in special cases, as a basis for reporting to competent authorities to approve the method of converting RON 92 gasoline types to RON 95 DTQG.
Up to now, RON 92 gasoline has not been used in the market. The Ministry of Finance requests the Ministry of Industry and Trade to urgently organize and complete the conversion in accordance with the direction of the Prime Minister in Official Dispatch No. 3074/VPCP-KTTH dated October 23, 2018.
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