Vietnam: Formulation and integration of amended industrial cluster development plan into amended provincial planning

Specifically, according to Clause 7 Article 1 of Decree No. 66/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government amending Article 9 of Decree No. 68/2017/NĐ-CP, the formulation and integration of amended industrial cluster development plan into amended provincial planning are specified as follows:

- The district-level People's Committee shall prepare and send a written request for amendment of the local industrial cluster development plan to the provincial Department of Industry and Trade.

- The provincial Department of Industry and Trade shall play the leading role and cooperate with relevant provincial departments, agencies and relevant units in completing the report on amendment of provincial industrial cluster development plan in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 and Article 8 hereof, and then submitting it to the provincial People’s Committee.

- The provincial People’s Committee shall direct the provincial planning agency to process and integrate the amended industrial cluster development plan into the amended provincial planning, and get opinions about such amended provincial planning (which includes the amended industrial cluster development plan) in accordance with regulations of the Law on planning for completing and submitting it to competent authorities for approval. The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall give its opinions about the conformity and fulfillment of relevant conditions and requirements of the amended industrial cluster development plan with regulations on provincial planning.

- With regard to minor changes in name, location, area, sector of operation, progress of investment in technical infrastructure facilities and other contents relating to an industrial cluster, which do not cause changes in objectives, nature or increased land area of the industrial cluster development plan in the approved provincial planning or the land area for development of industrial clusters approved by competent authorities, the relevant provincial People's Committee shall submit a written request to the Ministry of Industry and Trade to give approval for implementing and updating such changes to the provincial planning, and for reporting to the Prime Minister in the period of formulation and approval for the provincial planning.

- The decision on approval for the amended provincial planning must include contents about the amended industrial cluster development plan and the enclosed list of industrial clusters to be developed, including name, location, area, sectors of operation and progress of investment in technical infrastructure facilities, implementation solutions and relevant contents (if any).

View more details at Decree No. 66/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from August 01, 2020.

Thu Ba

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