Vietnam: Entities required to prepare plan for environmental renovation and restoration

09:37, 18/05/2019

Recently, the Government of Vietnam has issued Decree No. 40/2019/ND-CP on amendments to Decrees on guidelines for the Law on Environment Protection.

According to new regulations of Decree No. 40/2019/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, entities required to prepare plan for environmental renovation and restoration include:

- Projects of mineral extraction EIA reports of which have been approved after April 01, 2015;

- The mineral extraction facility having an EIA report or environmental protection plan approved before April 01, 2015 but having no plan approved.

Moreover, if an entity prescribed above falls under any of the following cases, it must re-prepare another plan for environmental renovation and restoration:

- Such entity is required to re-prepare EIA report;

- The entity requests a change in environmental renovation and restoration compared to the approved plan (including supplemented plan for environmental renovation and restoration);

- At the request of the competent authority when the funding for the approved plan for environmental renovation and restoration is inadequate for implementation.

View more details at Decree No. 40/2019/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from July 01, 2019.

- Thanh Lam -

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