Many Circulars to be issued by the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam in 2024

Many Circulars to be issued by the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam in 2024 (Internet image) 

Regarding this issue, LawNet answers as follows:

On February 23, 2024, the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam issued Decision 432/QD-BTNMT on the Program to form legislative documents in 2024 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Many Circulars to be issued by the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment in 2024

Specifically, Circulars that will be issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in 2024 include:

(1) Land

- Circular regulating cadastral records and certificates of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to land

- Circular regulating statistics, land inventory, and current land use status maps

- Circular regulating cadastral maps

- Circular on technical regulations on the national land database

- Circular regulating the process of building a national land database

- Circular promulgating economic and technical norms for building a land database

- Circular promulgating economic - technical statistical norms, land inventory, and mapping of current land use status

- Circular on economic and technical norms for cadastral surveying and mapping, land registration, assets attached to land, cadastral dossier preparation, issuance of Certificates of land use rights, and ownership of assets attached to land

- Circular regulating land investigation and assessment techniques; land protection, improvement and restoration techniques

- Circular detailing land valuation methods; Building and adjusting a land price list; Determining specific land prices and providing advice on land price determination

- Circular providing technical regulations on the preparation and adjustment of land use planning and plans

- Circular regulating economic and technical norms for land investigation and assessment; land protection, improvement, and restoration techniques

- Circular promulgating economic and technical norms to prepare state budget estimates to serve land valuation

- Circular stipulating economic and technical norms for establishing and adjusting land use planning and plans

- Circular guiding the functions, tasks, powers, organizational structure, and operating mechanism of the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering under the Department of Natural Resources and Environment

(2) Environment

- Circular promulgating procedures for inventorying and monitoring biodiversity

- Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 02/2022/TT-BTNMT dated January 10, 2022 of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment detailing a number of articles of the Law on Environmental Protection

- Circular promulgating economic-technical norms on collection, transport, and treatment of household solid waste

- Circular promulgating national technical regulations on industrial emissions

- Circular promulgating national technical regulations on industrial wastewater

- Circular promulgating national technical regulations on livestock wastewater

- Circular promulgating national technical regulations on domestic wastewater and wastewater in urban areas and concentrated residential areas

- Circular promulgating national technical regulations on scrap imported from abroad as production materials

- Circular on the issuance of national technical standards for safe environmental distances for residential areas of production, business, service facilities, and warehouses with the risk of dust dispersion, unpleasant odor, and noise - Applicable to categories of construction projects for the treatment of domestic solid waste, ordinary industrial solid waste, and hazardous waste.

(3) Geology and mineral

- Circular amending and supplementing Circular 17/2012/TT-BTNMT dated November 29, 2012 of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment regulating conditions for organizations practicing mineral exploration

- Circular promulgating economic - technical norms for a number of work items in the investigation and assessment of mineral resources of sea sand as leveling material

- Circular promulgating technical regulations on exploration and decentralization of sea sand reserves

- Circular amending and supplementing Circular 01/2016/TT-BTNMT dated January 13, 2016 of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment on Technical regulations on exploration of sand and gravel on river beds and soil and rocks used as filling materials

- Circular amending and supplementing Circular 06/2015/TT-BTNMT, dated February 25, 2015, of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment on Technical regulations on investigation and assessment of environmental geology in areas with toxic minerals

- Circular amending and supplementing Circular 44/2016/TT-BTNMT, dated December 26, 2016, regulating the content of construction supervision of mineral exploration projects

- Circular on technical regulations for investigation and assessment of rare earth mineral resources in weathered shells

- Circular promulgating economic - technical norms for excavation works and sampling at excavation works in basic geological surveys of minerals and mineral exploration

- Circular promulgating economic - technical norms for determining the content of some chemical elements by the coal chemical analysis method, smelting method, and inductive plasma emission spectroscopy method (ICP-OES)

(4) Hydrometeorology

- Circular promulgating national technical regulations on assessing the quality of hydrometeorological forecasts and warnings

- Circular replacing Circular 39/2016/TT-BTNMT dated December 19, 2016 of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment on technical regulations on saltwater intrusion monitoring and investigation

- Circular replacing Circular 24/2022/TT-BTNMT dated December 31, 2022 of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment regulating economic and technical norms for the operation of the hydrometeorological station network

(5) Sea and island

Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 34/2010/TT-BTNMT dated December 14, 2010 of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment promulgating technical regulations on oceanographic surveys and surveys

(6) Climate change

Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 01/2022/TT-BTNMT dated January 7, 2022, of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment detailing the implementation of the Law on Environmental Protection
on responding to climate change

(7) Water Resources

- Circular detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Water Resources

- Circular on inspection of compliance with water resources laws and appraisal and acceptance of the results of basic water resources investigation activities

- Circular on economic and technical norms for establishing water source protection corridors

- Circular on national technical regulations on filling unused wells

- Circular on the relocation, change of location, and dissolution of underground water resources monitoring stations

- Circular on economic and technical norms for monitoring, forecasting, and warning of water resources

- Circular on economic and technical norms for investigation and assessment of the current status of wastewater discharge into water sources

(8) Surveying and mapping

- Circular amending a number of contents of Circulars on economic and technical norms in the field of surveying, mapping, and geographical information

- Circular amending a number of articles of Circular 24/2018/TT-BTNMT dated November 15, 2018 of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment
on inspection, appraisal, and acceptance of the quality of surveying and mapping products.

- Circular promulgating national technical regulations on administrative maps

- Circular promulgating national technical regulations on the process of establishing national topographic maps at scales of 1:2,000, 1:5,000, and 1:10,000 from the national geographic database

- Circular providing technical regulations on the process of building a national geographic database at a scale of 1:50,000 and creating a seabed topographic map from the national geographic database at a corresponding scale

- Circular promulgating national technical regulations on the process of building a national geographic database at scales of 1:2,000, 1:5,000, and 1:10,000

- Circular promulgating national technical regulations on detailed gravity measurements for surveying and mapping work - Ground measurement part

(9) Exploration

- Circular on technical regulations for the operation of the national remote sensing database

- Circular on technical regulations for establishing thematic data using optical remote sensing images

(10) Other fields

The Circular regulates standards and conditions for the promotion of professional titles for public employees specializing in natural resources and environment.

More details can be found in Decision 432/QD-BTNMT, taking effect on February 23, 2024.

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