Vietnam's outstanding new policy takes effect from the end of September 2021

The outstanding new policy takes effect from the end of September 2021 (Artwork)

1. Additional subjects granted electrical safety cards

The Minister of Industry and Trade of Vietnam promulgates Circular 05/2021/TT-BCT detailing a number of contents on electrical safety, effective from September 22, 2021.

The subjects requiring training, assessment, grade assignment and electrical safety card issuance:

-  Persons operating, experimenting on, building or repairing transmission lines or electrical equipment at enterprises, including installing, removing and inspecting electrical energy measuring systems; regulators.

- Electricity operators and repairers in rural areas, mountainous areas and border areas and on islands of organizations operating under the Electricity Law and other relevant laws in rural areas, mountainous areas and border areas and on islands.

(Currently, persons doing the operation and repair of electricity in rural, mountainous, border areas, and islands) .

- Electricity operators and repairers and persons providing electricity services for organizations and enterprises. (New content).

2. New regulations on implementation of electricity selling price applied from September 25, 2021

Circular 06/2021/TT-BCT of Vietnam amending to Circular 16/2014/TT-BCT stipulating the implementation of electricity selling prices, effective from September 25, 2021.

According to this Circular, amendment to a number of regulations on implementation of electricity selling prices as follows:

- Additional subjects of electricity price according to voltage level are electricity retailers in industrial parks and industrial clusters (currently electricity retailers in industrial parks).

- Additional subjects of application of electricity selling price according to the time of electricity use in a day (in the form of three prices) is electricity retailing unit in industrial parks, industrial clusters (currently electricity retailers in industrial parks).

- The phrase “voltage transformers and electricity consumption” shall be replaced by the phrase “voltage transformers or electricity consumption” in clause 2 of Article 5 of Circular 16/2014/TT-BCT.

- Supplementing regulations on wholesale electricity prices for commercial - service - living complexes. Detail:

In case where, in a commercial - service - household complex, there are end-users that are hospitals, kindergartens, preschools, high schools, public lighting systems, administrative agencies and non-business units, the electricity wholesale prices applied at the master meter to part of electricity consumed by these end-users do not exist in the form of three unit prices and are regulated as follows:

+ Applying electricity selling prices to hospitals, kindergartens, preschools, high schools, public lighting systems, administrative agencies and non-business units as prescribed in Article 9 of Circular 16/2014/TT-BCT of Vietnam;

+  Electricity retailers shall be responsible for cooperating with the electricity wholesalers in installing three-rate meters to measure the actual electricity consumption and record readings of power consumed by end-users on the same day as recorded at the master meter to ensure accurate calculation of the amount of electricity consumption for the purposes of electricity use at the master meter.

3. Promulgate economic-technical norms for the formulation and adjustment of land use plans

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam has promulgated economic - technical norms for formulation and adjustment of land use master plans and plans in Circular 11/2021/TT-BTNMT effective from September 22, 2021.

Economic - technical norms for formulation and adjustment of master plans and plans on land use include the following component norms:

- Norm of Labor: is the direct labor time required to produce a product (or to perform a job step or perform a specific job) and the direct labor time in the process of testing and receiving products under the regulations on inspection and acceptance.

- Norms of using materials, tools and equipment, in which:

+ The norm of using material is the amount of material needed to produce a product unit (perform a job); the unit is calculated by the unit of each type of material/product unit.

+ The norm of using tools and equipment: is the time to use tools and equipment necessary to produce a unit of product (perform a work step); The shelf life of tools and equipment is calculated in months.

+ Consumption of electric tools and equipment is calculated on the basis of capacity and usage norms of tools and equipment and calculated by the formula:

Electricity norm = (Equipment capacity/hour x 08 working hours x number of equipment use cases) + 5% loss.

+ The norm for low-value tools is calculated by 5% of the tool norm calculated in the tool rating table.

+ The norm for low-value material is calculated by 8% of the material norm calculated in the material norm table.

Note:  The above norm only stipulates the level for direct activities of making and adjusting master plans and plans on land use. Task-making activities; General Management; Acceptance testing; Other activities directly related to the task will be determined during the formulation of the task in accordance with the law on the formulation, management and use of funds for economic activity for resource and environmental spending tasks.

Bao Ngoc

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