Responsibilities of members of the Council for assessment and acceptance of results from scientific and technological tasks in Vietnam

Responsibilities of members of the Council for assessment and acceptance of results from scientific and technological tasks in Vietnam (Internet image)

Circular 11/2014/TT-BKHCN stipulates the responsibilities of members in the council for evaluating and accepting the results of the implementation of national science and technology tasks in Vietnam as follows:

1. Council members for evaluation and acceptance are responsible for:

- Reviewing documents and materials, commenting on the implementation results of the task according to Form 4a or Form 4b in the Appendix issued with this Circular and sending the comment form to the task management unit at least 01 working day before the council meeting;

- Requesting relevant organizations and individuals to provide necessary documents for the evaluation and acceptance work;

- Objectively and accurately evaluating and accepting the results of the task implementation and taking responsibility for their evaluation opinions;

- Not disclosing information about the evaluation results before the decision to recognize the results is made; not retaining, exploiting, publishing, or using the task implementation results contrary to regulations or without the consent of the governing ministry.

2. The council chairperson and vice-chairperson authorized, in addition to the responsibilities of council members stipulated in Clause 1 of this Article, have the following responsibilities:

- Reporting and handling arising issues related to the council's evaluation results as required by the Head of the task-governing ministry;

- Confirming the completion of the evaluation documents by the task manager according to the council’s conclusions.

3. Council members elected as members of the ballot-counting committee, in addition to the responsibilities of council members stipulated in Clause 1 of this Article, are also responsible for checking the validity of evaluation ballots, summarizing, and reporting the voting results of council members.

Details can be found at Circular 11/2014/TT-BKHCN which comes into effect in Vietnam from August 1, 2014.

Ty Na

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