All organizations and individuals extracting minerals in Vietnam must have plan for environmental renovation and restoration

Currently, environmental renovation and restoration are activities to bring the environment and ecosystem in the affected environmental area closer to the original state of the environment or achievement of standards and regulations on safety, environment in service of purposes useful to human beings.

According to Clause 1 Article 15 of Decree No. 19/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, all organizations and individuals extracting minerals must have plan for environmental renovation and restoration and deposit making for environmental restoration to be submitted to the competent state authorities for approval.

In which, deposit making for environmental renovation and restoration is that the organizations or individuals deposit an amount of money in the Vietnam Environment Protection Fund or the local environmental protection fund (referred to as environmental protection fund) to ensure the responsibility for the environmental renovation and restoration of organizations and individuals for mineral extraction activities.

Moreover, the plan for environmental renovation and restoration must consist with the social – economic development planning, the mineral extraction planning and land use and environmental protection planning of localities. 

The State encourages and creates favorable conditions for organizations and individuals extracting the mineral to continue their land lease to be entitled to incentive policies in case of environmental renovation and restoration into tourist attraction, ecological parks or recreation areas for the beneficial purpose to humans.

View more details at Decree No. 19/2015/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from April 01, 2015.

Thu Ba

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