Land-related administrative procedures in Vietnam as of January 1, 2025

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Land-related administrative procedures in Vietnam as of January 1, 2025

Land-related administrative procedures in Vietnam include:

- Procedures for land expropriation, land allocation, land lease, land repurposing, land use extension, land use term adjustment;

- Procedures for registration of land and property affixed to land;

- Procedures for issuance of certificates of title, procedures for correction, revocation or cancellation of granted certificates;

- Procedures for exercise of land users' rights;

- Procedures for parcel subdivision or consolidation;

- Procedures for enforcement of mandatory land inspection decisions and land expropriation decisions;

- Procedures for mediation of land disputes or resolution of land disputes at administrative agencies;

- Procedures for penalties for administrative violations against regulations on land;

- Procedures for provision of land-related information or data;

- Other land-related administrative procedures.

Principles of following land-related administrative procedures in Vietnam

- Ensuring equality, objectivity, openness, transparency and close, prompt and accurate coordination between competent authorities during the resolution of administrative procedures.

- Make sure the land-related administrative procedures are simple, easy to understand, easy to implement, integrated into other land-related administrative procedures in order to save time, cost and effort of organizations, individuals and competent authorities, thereby contributing to administrative reform.

- Organizations and individuals applying for land-related administrative procedures are responsible before the law for the accuracy and truthfulness of the declared contents and documents in their submitted applications.

- Land-related administrative procedures are carried out in person, through the postal system or by electronic means with the same legal effect.

- The authority processing land-related administrative procedures is responsible for implementing within its authority and within the period prescribed by law, and is not responsible for the contents of the documents and instruments contained in the application that have been previously accepted, appraised, approved or resolved by other competent agencies or persons.

Announcement and publicity of land-related administrative procedures in Vietnam

After being approved by a competent authority, land-related administrative procedures must be published according to the Government's regulations on administrative procedure control.

Publicized contents of land-related administrative procedures include:

- The competent authority receiving the applications and returning results; the authority processing land-related administrative procedures; subject following administrative procedures;

- Processing time for each administrative procedure;

- Composition and quantity of applications for each administrative procedure;

- Process and responsibility for processing each administrative procedure;

- Financial obligations, fees and charges payable for each administrative procedure;

- Other contents of the set of administrative procedures (if any).

The publicity of the contents specified above is carried out in the form of regular posting at the headquarters of the authority receiving the applications and returning results; posting on the National Public Service Portal and ministerial/provincial public service portals, and the websites of the People's Committees of second-level/third-level administrative divisions.

Responsibilities for implementing land-related administrative procedures in Vietnam

- Ministries and central authorities shall, according to their functions, tasks and powers, cooperate in directing, guiding and inspecting the implementation of land-related administrative procedures, ensure consistency between land-based administrative procedures and other related administrative procedures.

- The People's Committees at all levels shall direct, guide, inspect and organize the implementation of administrative procedures in their areas; regulate cooperation between relevant local authorities to process land-related administrative procedures and other related administrative procedures; organize the implementation of administrative procedures by electronic means.

- The competent authority processing land-related administrative procedures must comply with the prescribed order and procedures and publicize administrative procedure processing results.

Legal basis: Articles 223, 224, 225 and 226 of the Land Law 2024.

Ho Quoc Tuan

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