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

Specifically, according to Clause 8 Article 6 of Decree No. 08/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government amending Article 39 of Decree No. 137/2013/NĐ-CP, the organization established under regulations of law and registering for providing consulting services for construction of hydroelectric power stations shall satisfy the following conditions:

- The organization has the staff of consulting experts with primary consulting experts having at least bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering, hydroelectric engineering, irrigation engineering, geological engineering, environmental engineering or equivalent majors, at least 5-year experience of working in the field of consulting and designing at least one project on hydroelectric power station with equivalent capacity and having suitable construction certificates.

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

- The organization has the number of primary consulting experts under the following ranking of hydroelectric works

+ 1st rank: at least 25 experts;

+ 2nd rank: at least 20 experts;

+ 3rd rank: at least 15 experts;

+ 4th rank: at least 10 experts.

Decree No. 08/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government has annulled certain conditions for grant of licenses for advisory of investment in construction of Hydro-power plans of Decree No. 137/2013/NĐ-CP, specifically as follows:

- Annulling Clause 1 Article 39: “Being an advisory organization in specialized branch, having professional capacity of technology and hydro-power plant works, analysis of technique, economy and finance of projects, environmental impact assessments”.

- Annulling Clause 2 Article 39: “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”.

- Annulling Clause 4 Article 39: “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”.

View relevant contents at Decree No. 08/2018/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from January 15, 2018.

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