Vietnam: The appraisal of economic-technical norms for public services funded by state budget in journalism from August 01, 2024

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On June 14, 2024, the Minister of Information and Communications issued Circular 05/2024/TT-BTTTT guiding the formulation, appraisal, and issuance of economic - technical norms for public service funded by state budgetv in journalism under the state management of the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Appraisal of economic-technical norms for public service funded by state budgetv in journalism in Vietnam from August 01, 2024

- When the economic-technical norms are completed, the department responsible for norms formulation reports to the head of the press agency about the results of the norms formulation to organize the appraisal of the economic-technical norms before reporting to the competent authority for consideration and issuance.

- The head of the agency assigned the task of norms formulation decides to establish a grassroots-level Appraisal Council and organizes the appraisal of the norms formulation results. The Appraisal Council has an odd number of members: The Chairman of the Council is the head of the agency; members of the Council include representatives from the technical departments of the unit; representatives from the technical departments of the managing agency or additional experts in the field (if needed). Members provide independent appraisal opinions.

- The dossier submitted to the Appraisal Council includes:

+ Official Dispatch requesting appraisal;

+ Draft economic-technical norms;

+ Explanatory report on the construction of economic-technical norms including: the selected method for norms formulation; report on the implementation process; basis for the formulation of economic-technical norms; process of implementing public service: report on the job content, clear description of the process of performing public services; the work steps, stages of public service products identified, calculated in the norms, clearly showing the types of materials, supplies, machinery... used in the process of performing public service;

Survey forms for data collection and summary report of survey results (in case of using the survey method to experimentally analyze data from reality: Survey forms for information and data collection, confirmed between the surveyor and the survey respondent; the survey forms must fully reflect the survey information and data (measuring, timing…) ensuring the basis for analysis, evaluation, and calculation of the values of component norms;

Report on feedback, explanations, and completion of the draft norms regarding the comments from relevant agencies, independent expert opinions (if any), opinions of those applying the norms, those affected…;

Report on the expected impact assessment of the norms after issuance on: production activities, public service supply of the unit.

+ Other documents serving the process of norms formulation and feasibility assessment (if any).

- Appraisal content:

The appraisal of the construction results of economic-technical norms is to review and evaluate the results of norms formulation, mainly as follows:

+ Check, evaluate, conclude on the basis of norms formulation;

+ Check, evaluate, conclude on the method of norms formulation;

+ Check, evaluate, conclude on the organization of implementation, the process of norms formulation;

+ Check, evaluate, conclude on the method of data collection, processing, analysis, calculation, and determination of the norms values;

+ Check, evaluate, conclude on the format, layout of the norms presentation;

+ Check, evaluate, conclude on the feasibility in terms of economic-technical aspects of the norms;

+ Other issues (if any);

+ Recommendations (if any).

- The Appraisal Council's appraisal conclusion is implemented by voting, following the principle of majority; the evaluation is carried out at 3 levels as follows:

+ Level 1: Met the requirements for issuance recommendation;

+ Level 2: Met the requirements but needs revision before issuance recommendation;

+ Level 3: Did not meet the requirements, must be redone.

- The appraisal results of the Council are aggregated and presented in the Appraisal Report, including the conclusions and recommendations of the Council. The Appraisal Report on the results of the economic-technical norms formulation is the basis for the competent authority to decide on the issuance of the economic-technical norms.

(Article 11 of Circular 05/2024/TT-BTTTT)

Nguyen Ngoc Que Anh

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