Content of Expenditures for Implementing Autonomy Policies of Vietnamese Agencies Abroad

Currently, the budget estimate allocated by the competent authority for the Vietnamese Agencies Abroad (VAA) within the year is the maximum spending limit to ensure the execution of assigned functions, tasks, and powers. The budget allocated to the VAA is managed and allocated into 2 parts: funding for implementing self-management policies and funding for non-self-management policies.

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To be specific, the contents of expenditures from the budget allocated for implementing self-management policies are stipulated in Circular 146/2013/TT-BTC, including:

- Salaries for night work and overtime work.- Regular operating expenses: Payment for public services; office supplies; communication, information, and dissemination; domestic and overseas travel allowances within the host country; hiring local personnel under contract or on an ad-hoc basis; regular maintenance of fixed assets; procurement of assets for professional use and for ceremonial purposes; expenses for gifts and regular receptions; expenses for professional operations of each sector; sanitation and epidemic prevention; drinking water; other regular operating expenses (if any).- Expenses for organizing annual events and activities of the unit (events and activities on the occasion of National Day, the founding day of the Vietnam People's Army, the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries).- Other special expenses in line with the functions, tasks, and powers of the representative agency under the Law on Representative Agencies of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam abroad.

See the full regulation in Circular 146/2013/TT-BTC effective from December 10, 2013.

Thu Ba

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