Conditions for grant of licenses for advisory of investment in construction of Hydro-power plans in Vietnam

Specifically, according to Article 39 of Decree No. 137/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, organizations registering for advisory of investment in construction of Hydro-power plans, apart from general conditions specified in Article 28 of this Decree, must satisfy the following conditions:

1. Being an advisory organization in a specialized branch, having professional capacity of technology and hydro-power plant works, analysis of technique, economy and finance of projects, environmental impact assessments.

2. Having a contingent of advisory experts including major advisory experts and other advisory experts having experiences in equipment of hydraulic works, electric equipment, water treatment, automatic control, hydraulic works, and hydrology, hydraulic energy, Hydrometeorological, geologist of works, geological technique, structure and organization of construction of hydro-power plants and fields related to types of hydro-power plants.

3. Major advisory experts must have university diplomas or higher in electricity, hydro-power, irrigation, geological, environmental, economic, financial or similar branches and worked in the field of advisory for at least 5 years, and participated in designing at least one project of hydro-power plant with equivalent capacity and possess suitable construction-practice certificate.

4. Major advisory expert, who does task of the main responsible advisory expert, apart from conditions specified at Clause 3 of this Article, must have been head of a scheme, or main responsible for designing project on Hydro-power plant with equivalent capacity or participated in designing at least three projects on Hydro-power plants with equivalent capacity.

5. Having necessary equipment, technical means, and application software for advisory of investment in construction of Hydro-power plant works.

6. Having number of main advisory experts under ranks of Hydro-power works as follow:

- Rank 1: Having 25 experts or more, including at least 01 main responsible advisory expert;

- Rank 2: Having 20 experts or more, including at least 01 main responsible advisory expert;

- Rank 3: Having 15 experts or more, including at least 01 main responsible advisory expert;

- Rank 4: Having 10 experts or more, including at least 01 main responsible advisory expert.

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