Vietnam: Which agencies are subject to urban green trees management responsibilities?

Urban green trees management responsibilities of state agencies are specified in Articles 20, 21, 22, 23 of Decree No. 64/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, specifically as follows:

- Responsibilities of ministries and sectors:

The Ministry of Construction shall:

+ Perform the unified state management of urban green trees;

+ Submit to the Government for promulgation or to promulgate according to their competence and guide the implementation of regulations on urban green tree management;

+ Guide the estimation and management of state budget expenditures on maintenance of public green trees;

+ Inspect the observance of regulations on urban green tree management nationwide.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and other concerned ministries and sectors shall, within the ambit of their respective functions, tasks and powers, coordinate with the Ministry of Construction in performing the state management of urban green trees.

- Responsibilities of provincial-level People's Committees:

To perform the unified management of urban green trees in their respective provinces. To divide responsibilities to professional agencies and decentralize the management to district-level People's Committees for management of urban green trees in their respective localities.

To promulgate or decentralize the promulgation of regulations to district-level People's Committees specifying the management of urban green trees in localities.

Based on the Government's regulations and guidance as well as local socio-economic development conditions, to:

+ Direct the formulation of and approve annual and five-year plans on public-use urban green tree investment and development;

+ Study and promulgate investment, financial and land-use mechanisms and policies in order to encourage organizations and individuals to participate in the management of urban green trees, the investment in and development of tree nurseries, parks and flower gardens;

+ Issue regulations on management and use of earnings from the felling and removal of public green trees.

Finally, to organize the implementation of Government's regulations on urban green tree management.

- Responsibilities of district-level People's Committees:

+ To organize the management of urban green trees in localities as decentralized by provincial-level People's Committees.

+ To issue specific regulations on management of urban green trees according to decentralization in areas under their assigned management and inspect the implementation thereof.

+ To issue according to decentralization lists of conserved trees, trees restricted or banned from planting in areas under their assigned management.

+ To select according to decentralization green tree management service providers in areas under their assigned management.

+ To direct the making of annual statistics and the establishment of databases on urban green trees in areas under their assigned management and report thereon to provincial-level Departments of Construction for monitoring and summarization reporting.

- Responsibilities of provincial-level Departments of Construction

+ To advise their provincial-level People's Committees on the state management of urban green trees in localities.

+ To assume the prime responsibility for drafting documents guiding the management of urban green trees, to formulate annual and five-year plans on investment in the development of public urban green trees and submit them to provincial-level People's Committees for issuance.

+ To make lists of planted trees, conserved trees, dangerous trees, trees banned or restricted from planting in localities and submit them to their provincial-level People's Committees for issuance.

+ To sum up databases on urban green trees; to guide, inspect and evaluate the management of urban green trees in provinces and annually report thereon to their provincial-level People's Committees and the Ministry of Construction.

View more details at Decree No. 64/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from July 30, 2010.

Nguyen Phu

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