Vietnam: Responsibilities of the State towards agricultural production in disaster-prone areas

1. For epidemics:

- 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.

2. For natural disasters:

- Implementation shall be achieved as prescribed when there is an epidemic, 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 as prescribed in point d in clause 2 in Article 30 and clause 2 in Article 31 of the Law on natural disaster management of Vietnam.

- Chairperson of People’s Committee of communes, districts shall make a consolidated report of proposed losses and send results of implementation of assistance.

View more details at Decree No. 02/2017/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from February 25, 2017.

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