The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam will issue many Circulars in 2024

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam will issue many Circulars in 2024 (Internet image) 

On January 30, 2024, the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment issued Decision 278/QD-BTNMT on the 2024 Work Program of this Ministry.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam will issue many Circulars in 2024

In 2024, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will issue Circulars in many fields, specifically:

(1) Land sector

- 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 in 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 stipulating economic and technical norms for cadastral surveying and mapping, registering land and assets attached to land, preparing cadastral records, granting Certificate 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) Environmental field

- Circular promulgating procedures for inventorying and monitoring biodiversity

- Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 02/2022/TT-BTNMT detailing a number of articles of the Law on Environmental Protection

- Circular promulgating economic-technical norms on collection, transportation, 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 promulgating national technical regulations on environmentally safe distances for residential areas of production, business, service and warehouse establishments that are at risk of spreading dust, unpleasant odors, and noise.

- Applicable to construction items treating domestic solid waste, regular industrial solid waste, and hazardous waste

(3) Geology and mineral field

- Circular amending and supplementing Circular 17/2012/TT-BTNMT 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 providing technical regulations on the exploration of sand, river bed gravel, soil, and rock as filling material

- Circular amending and supplementing Circular 06/2015/TT-BTNMT on technical regulations for investigation and assessment of environmental geology in areas with toxic minerals

- Circular amending and supplementing Circular 44/2016/TT-BTNMT regulating the content of construction supervision for mineral exploration projects

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

- Circular promulgating economic and 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 coal chemical analysis method, smelting method, and inductive plasma emission spectroscopy method (ICP- OES)

(4) Hydrometeorological field

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

- Circular replacing Circular 39/2016/TT-BTNMT on technical regulations on saltwater intrusion monitoring and investigation

- Circular replacing Circular 24/2022/TT-BTNMT regulating economic and technical norms for the operation of the hydrometeorological station network

(5) Sea and island fields

Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 34/2010/TT-BTNMT promulgating technical regulations on oceanographic surveys and surveys

(6) Climate change field

Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 01/2022/TT-BTNMT detailing the implementation of the Law on Environmental Protection in response to climate change

(7) Environmental resources field

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

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

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

- Circular promulgating national technical regulations on filling unused wells

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

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

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

(8) Field of surveying and mapping

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

- Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 24/2018/TT-BTNMT regulating 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, 1:10,000

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

(9) Remote sensing field

- 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 promotion of professional titles of public employees in natural resources and environment majors

More details can be found in Decision 278/QD-BTNMT taking effect on January 30, 2024.

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