What are the contents of geological baseline surveys of minerals in Vietnam? What are the responsibilities of People's Committees of all levels to protect unexploited minerals?
What are the contents of geological baseline surveys of minerals in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Clause 1, Article 22 of the Law on Minerals 2010 provides as follows:
Contents of geological baseline surveys of minerals
1. A geological baseline survey of minerals has the following contents:
a/ Survey and discovery of minerals simultaneously withdrawing of maps for regional geology, catastrophic geology, environmental geology, marine mineral geology and specialized geological and mineral maps and researches;
b/ Assessment of mineral potential by kind or group of minerals or geological structures of prospect to discover new mineral areas.
2. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment shall specify the contents of geological baseline surveys of minerals; procedures for appraising and approving projects on geological baseline surveys of minerals and reporting on the outcomes of geological baseline surveys of minerals.
Thus, according to the above regulations, a geological baseline survey of minerals has the following contents:
- Survey and discovery of minerals simultaneously withdrawing of maps for regional geology, catastrophic geology, environmental geology, marine mineral geology and specialized geological and mineral maps and researches;
- Assessment of mineral potential by kind or group of minerals or geological structures of prospect to discover new mineral areas.
What are the contents of geological baseline surveys of minerals in Vietnam? What are the responsibilities of People's Committees of all levels to protect unexploited minerals? (Image from the Internet)
What are the rights and obligations of organizations conducting geological baseline surveys of minerals in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Clause 1, Article 23 of the Law on Minerals 2010, as follows:
Rights and obligations of organizations conducting geological baseline surveys of minerals
1. Organizations conducting geological baseline surveys have the following rights:
a/ To conduct geological baseline surveys of minerals under projects approved by competent state management agencies;
b/ To send out of areas in which geological baseline surveys of mineral are conducted, even out of the country, mineral specimens of appropriate weights and types for analysis and testing purposes under the approved projects.
2. Organizations conducting geological baseline surveys of minerals have the following obligations:
a/ To register geological baseline surveys of minerals with competent state management agencies before conducting these surveys;
b/ To properly implement approved projects and comply with standards, technical regulations, norms and unit prices in the process of conducting geological baseline surveys of minerals;
c/ To ensure the truthfulness and completeness in the collection and summarization of geological and mineral-related documents and information; to refrain from disclosing geological and mineral-related information during the process of conducting geological baseline surveys of minerals;
d/ To protect the environment, minerals and other natural resources during survey periods;
e/ To propose competent state management agencies to approve reports on the results of geological baseline surveys of minerals;
f/ To submit approved reports on the results of geological baseline surveys of minerals for archival according to the law on archives; to send geological and mineral specimens to the Geology Museum according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment's regulations.
Thus, according to the above provisions, the organizations conducting geological baseline surveys have the following rights:
- To conduct geological baseline surveys of minerals under projects approved by competent state management agencies;
- To send out of areas in which geological baseline surveys of mineral are conducted, even out of the country, mineral specimens of appropriate weights and types for analysis and testing purposes under the approved projects.
What are the responsibilities of People's Committees of all levels to protect unexploited minerals?
Pursuant to Article 18 of the Law on Minerals 2010, responsibilities of People's Committees of all levels to protect unexploited minerals are as follows:
- Within the ambit of their tasks and powers, provincial-level People's Committees shall:
+ Promulgate according to their competence or propose competent state management agencies to promulgate documents on enforcement of the mineral law in their localities;
+ Propagate, disseminate and educate about the law on protection of unexploited minerals;
+ Organize the protection of unexploited minerals;
+ Mobilize and direct the coordination among local forces to stop or prevent illegal mineral activities in their localities.
- Within the ambit of their tasks and power, People's Committees of districts, towns and provincial cities (below collectively referred to as district-level People's Committees) shall:
+ Organize the enforcement of the mineral law in their localities;
+ Direct People's Committees of communes, wards and townships (below collectively referred to as commune-level People's Committees) to apply measures to protect unexploited minerals; mobilize and direct the coordination among local forces to stop or prevent illegal mineral activities.
- Within the ambit of their tasks and powers, commune-level People's Committees shall detect and prevent illegal mineral activities in time and coordinate with functional agencies to protect unexploited minerals in their localities.
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