Organizational structure of the Vietnam Railway Authority from July 31, 2024

Organizational Structure of the Vietnam Railway Authority from July 31, 2024 (Image from Internet)

On July 31, 2024, the Minister of Transport issued Decision 961/QD-BGTVT amending Article 3 of Decision 387/QD-BGTVT defining the functions, duties, powers, and organizational structure of the Vietnam Railway Authority.

Organizational structure of the Vietnam Railway Authority from July 31, 2024

The organizational structure of the Vietnam Railway Authority from July 31, 2024, is as follows:

- Office.

- Planning - Finance Department.

- Railway Infrastructure Construction and Management Department.

- Transportation - Science and Technology Department.

- Legal Affairs - Inspection Department.

- Railway Safety Management Department I.

- Railway Safety Management Department II.

- Railway Safety Management Department III.

The Director of the Vietnam Railway Authority specifically stipulates the functions, duties, powers, and working relationships of the above-mentioned organizations.

It is known that the Vietnam Railway Authority is an organization under the Ministry of Transport, performing the function of advising and assisting the Minister of Transport in state management and law enforcement in the specialized field of railway transportation nationwide.

(Article 3 of Decision 387/QD-BGTVT of 2023, amended by Decision 961/QD-BGTVT of 2024)

Duties and Powers of the Vietnam Railway Authority

The Vietnam Railway Authority has the following duties and powers:

- Lead the development and submit to the Minister the strategy, planning, medium-term and annual plans, national programs, projects, and development proposals in the specialized field of railway transportation nationwide.

- Lead the development and submit to the Minister draft laws, ordinances, and legal normative documents concerning railway transportation.

- Lead the development and submit to the Minister for promulgation or propose competent state agencies to promulgate national technical standards, technical regulations, and economic-technical norms in the specialized field of railway transportation; organize the development, appraisal, and publication of specialized railway transportation standards.

- Organize the implementation of legal normative documents, strategies, planning, plans, standards, technical regulations, and economic-technical norms in the specialized field of railway transportation as promulgated, published, or approved by competent authorities; regulate the specific application of certain standards, technical processes, and practices for organizations and units engaged in railway transportation activities in accordance with railway law and management authority of the Vietnam Railway Authority.

- Organize information dissemination, communication, and legal education on railway transportation.

- Regarding the management and maintenance of railway infrastructure assets:

+ Organize and implement the management and maintenance of railway infrastructure assets as regulated and within authority;

+ Inspect and review the yearly and medium-term (or per plan cycle) plans and estimates for the management and maintenance of railway infrastructure assets, submit to the Minister for approval, and organize implementation as regulated;

+ Exercise state management over national railway infrastructure assets as assigned by competent authorities;

+ Lead the appraisal and submit to the Minister decisions on the exploitation, suspension of exploitation of railway lines, section lines, and national railway stations, and the connecting of private industrial railways, urban railways (if any) with the national railway;

+ Lead the advisory work for the Minister to submit to the Government of Vietnam, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam decisions or decide by authority the announcement, classification, naming, adjustment, closure, dismantlement, exploitation, suspension, temporary suspension of railway works in accordance with law;

+ Lead the appraisal and submit to the Minister the announcement of the technical grade of the railway lines, sections, segments, and railway stations;

+ Issue, extend, revoke, cancel construction permits for building, renovating, upgrading level crossings on the national railway;

+ Decide on the abolition of level crossings on the national railway;

+ Issue, extend, revoke, cancel construction permits for essential works within the land reserved for the national railway;

+ Propose the Minister to decide on converting mixed bridges to separate bridges on the national railway.

See more duties and powers of the Vietnam Railway Authority in Article 2 of Decision 387/QD-BGTVT of 2023.

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