Vietnam: Procedures for assistance for agricultural production losses due to natural disasters and epidemics

1. Order and method of implementation:

- Assistance in case of epidemics: Households shall cooperate with local authorities in assessment of losses and send an application to the People's Committee of the commune.

- Assistance in case of natural disasters: Households cooperate with local authorities in assessment of losses and directly send an application to the Committee for natural disaster management, search and rescue of the commune.

To be eligible for assistance as mentioned above, individuals who have suffered losses must submit a request for assistance for losses caused by epidemics or natural disasters using the specified forms and include an initial production declaration.

2. Responsibilities of People's Committees at all levels:

- Chairperson of People’s Committee of communes shall form a council for examination including People’s Committee of commune, experts of district, representatives of social organizations, villages, neighbor groups for the purpose of making minutes of examination and verification of loss level and specific requirements for assistance of each productive household and make a consolidated report sent to People’s Committee of districts. People’s Committee of districts shall organize inspection and issue a decision on assistance as authorized or make a consolidated report sent to People's Committee of provinces based on the report of People's Committee of communes. Based on the report of People’s Committee of districts, professional agencies of provinces shall take responsibility to inspect and lodge the report to People's Committee of provinces for approval and allocation of local budget and other legal financial sources for the purpose of opportunely satisfying requirement for assistance intended for the revival of production in areas suffering from losses caused by natural disasters, epidemics as regulated in this Decree.

- For natural disasters: Implementation shall be achieved together with cooperation of Committee for natural disaster management, search and rescue in local authority in examining and verifying the loss and making a consolidated report sent to central committee for natural disaster management. Chairperson of People’s Committee of communes, districts shall make a consolidated report of proposed losses and send results of implementation of assistance.

- Time of application processing: People's Committee of communes, districts, provinces (for epidemics) or committee for natural disaster management, search and rescue of communes, districts, provinces (for natural disasters) shall response in writing or announce solutions to productive households on public media of local authority within at the latest of 15 working days from the day on which valid application is received.

The above-mentioned contents are effective from February 25, 2017.

Source: Binh Phuoc’s Newspaper

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