Tasks and powers of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam in state management of land

- To guide, examine and organize the implementation of policies, laws, strategies, master plans, plans, programs, schemes and projects on land management and use after they are decided or approved by competent authorities;

- To elaborate and modify national and regional land use master plans and plans and manage them after they are approved by the National Assembly; to appraise land use master plans and plans elaborated by provincial-level People’s Committees; to appraise masterplans and plans on land use for defense or security purposes and change of the use purpose of rice farming land, protection and special-use forest land; to give written opinions on land use- related contents of sectoral master plans involving the use of land and land-related contents of investment projects as prescribed by law;

- To guide land allocation for real estate market development under land use master plans and plans;

- To guide and examine the survey and measurement and making of cadastral maps, land use cartograms and land use planning maps; elaboration and modification of land use master plans and plans; land allocation, lease and recovery, and change of land use purposes; registration of land use rights and house and land-attached asset ownership; compilation and management of cadastral dossiers and development of land databases; grant of certificates of land use rights and ownership of house and land-attached assets; and land users’ exercise of rights and performance of obligations in accordance with law;

- To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related ministries and sectors in. formulating and submitting to the Government or competent agencies for promulgation principles and methods of land pricing; to guide the formulation of and modify land price tables and the determination of specific land prices in accordance with the land law; to make land price maps; to formulate, summarize and provide data and information on land price brackets and tables and specific land prices;

- To guide and inspect land recovery, development of land funds and manage recovered land funds; auction of land use rights and management of land use in auctions for land occupying projects in accordance with law;

- To guide, examine and organize the implementation of the law on compensation, support and resettlement upon land recovery by the State; to guide and identify land users eligible or ineligible for compensation and support; to appraise the policy framework for compensation, support and resettlement upon land recovery by the State for investment projects that are decided by the National Assembly or approved by the Prime Minister and require relocation of whole communities, affecting all the livelihood, socio-economic activities, and cultural traditions of the communities, and for projects requiring the recovery of land located in many provinces and centrally run cities;

- To distribute, and manage the use of, blank certificates of land use rights and ownership of house and land-attached assets;

- To elaborate and submit to competent agencies for approval a regular and irregular land statistics and inventory plan and organize the implementation after the plan is approved; to guide and examine the compilation of land statistics and land inventory under the Ministry’s competence;

- To elaborate and submit to competent agencies for approval a master plan on survey and assessment of land and efficiency in the use of land of different categories and organize the implementation of the master plan after it is approved;

- To build and uniformly manage a national land information system; to manage the development, update and exploitation of the national land database;

- To develop the system of monitoring and evaluation of land management and use; to manage and operate the system of monitoring and evaluation of land management and use at the central level; to guide and examine the management and operation of the system of monitoring and evaluation of the land management and use at the local level;

- To direct and guide the settlement of land-related complaints and disputes in accordance with law;

- To manage and guide land-related public services and grant of practice certificates in the land sector in accordance with law.

View more details at Decree No. 36/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government effective from April 04, 2017, replacing Decree No. 21/2013/NĐ-CP.

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