Level of expenditure on specific activities in the Sustainable Forestry Development Program for the period of 2021-2025 in Vietnam

Level of expenditure on specific activities in the Sustainable Forestry Development Program for the period of 2021-2025 in Vietnam (Internet image)

The Minister of Finance of Vietnam issued Circular 21/2023/TT-BTC dated April 14, 2023, on the management and use of non-business funds for the implementation of the Sustainable Forestry Development Program for the period of 2021–2025 (Program).

1. Expenditure for specific activities of the Sustainable Forestry Development Program for the period of 2021–2025 in Vietnam

Specifically, in Clause 2, Article 14 of Circular 21/2023/TT-BTC, expenditure levels for the implementation of the contents and tasks specified in Section 2 shall comply with the current financial spending regime prescribed by competent state agencies.

Circular 21/2023/TT-BTC guides a number of specific spending levels, as follows:

- Expenses for travel expenses, conferences to carry out tasks: Comply with the provisions of Circular 40/2017/TT-BTC stipulating the regime of business trips and conferences;

- Expenses for training, and retraining for capacity improvement: comply with the provisions of Articles 4 and 5 of Circular 36/2018/TT-BTC guiding the estimation, management, use, and settlement of funds for the training and retraining of cadres, civil servants, and public employees;

- Expenses for the application of information technology to serve the professional activities of the contents of the Program:

Comply with the provisions of the law on management of investment in information technology applications using state budget capital and relevant laws; economic - technical norms in the field of information and communication;

- Expenses for investigation, survey, and statistics on professional content. The content and level of expenditure are as prescribed in Articles 3 and 4 of Circular 109/2016/TT-BTC on the estimation, management, use, and settlement of funds for the implementation of statistical surveys and national statistical censuses;

- Expenses for activities of scientific research nature serving the professional activities of the Program shall comply with the provisions of Circular 03/2023/TT-BTC on making estimates, managing, using, and settling state budget funds for performing science and technology tasks;

- Expenses for inspection, supervision, and evaluation of program implementation results: comply with the provisions of Circular 06/2007/TT-BTC guiding the making, management, and use of funds to ensure the inspection of the implementation of policies, strategies, master plans, and plans, and Circular 40/2017/TT-BTC stipulating the regime of working-trip allowances and conference expenses;

- Other contents, activities, and spending norms in accordance with relevant current laws.

2. Contents of expenditure on specific activities of the Sustainable Forestry Development Program for the period of 2021–2025 in Vietnam

According to Clause 1, Article 14 of Circular 21/2023/TT-BTC, the expenditure on the contents and tasks of implementing activities and projects with a specific nature to implement the Program according to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 15 of Circular 12/2022/TT-BNNPTNT, specifically as follows:

- Forest fire prevention and fighting; building, completing, and operating a forest monitoring system that automatically detects forest fires and deforestation;

Capacity building training for rangers and forest protection forces; patrolling to prevent deforestation and handle violations in the forestry sector; forest inventory, forest statistics, monitoring of changes in forest resources;

- Collecting specimens of forest creatures; protecting and developing precious and rare endangered species of forest plants and animals; conserving and monitoring the biodiversity of forest ecosystems; rescuing endangered forest animals and plants; Environmental Education; Museum; Prevent and Control Forest Pests; Measure and Plant Boundary Markers in Forest Areas;

- Capacity building on sustainable forest management;

- Investigating, evaluating, and monitoring national forest resources; application of advanced and modern technologies in management, investigation, and monitoring of forest resources; development of industry management information systems and digital transformation in the forestry sector;

- Tasks and solutions for the implementation of the Strategy, Program, Scheme and Project approved by the competent authority;

- Checking, monitoring, and evaluating the Program; improving the capacity for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the forestry sector; and other activities approved by the competent authority.

Circular 21/2023/TT-BTC takes effect from June 1, 2023.

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