Conditions for organizations to formulate urban planning in Vietnam

According to Articles 9 and 10 of Decree No. 37/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, conditions for domestic and foreign consultancy organizations to formulate urban planning are specified as follows:

- Domestic organizations:

+ An urban planning consultancy organiza­tion must have professionally capable individual members to ensure performance of all jobs of planning space, technical infrastructure and urban economy and environment; and have physical foundations and managerial capability to ensure quality of plans.

+ An urban planning consultancy organization that has sufficient class-I plan managers and class-I directors of all urban planning specialties may formulate all kinds of urban plans.

+ An urban planning consultancy organization that has no plan managers and urban planning specialty directors may formulate only zoning and detailed plans.

- Foreign organizations:

+ When participating in formulating urban planning in Vietnam, foreign consultancy organizations and individuals must possess operation licenses as required by Vietnamese law.

+ For foreign consultancy organizations and individuals involved in formulating urban plans within the approving competence of the Prime Minister, their capabilities must be recognized by the Ministry of Construction to be relevant to jobs they will perform.

+ For foreign consultancy organizations and individuals involved in formulating urban plans within the approving competence of People's Committees at all levels, their capabilities must be recognized by provincial-level urban planning management agencies to be relevant to jobs they will perform.

View details at Decree No. 37/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from May 25, 2010.

Nguyen Phu

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