Land information system in Vietnam and 03 things you should know

Land information system in Vietnam and 03 things you should know (Internet image)

1. Overall model of the land information system (hereafter refers as "LIS")

- The LIS is a part of the information system of natural resources and environment.

- The LIS shall be developed, connected, integrated, used for sharing data, managed and operated by central and local authorities according to the following provisions:

+ In central authorities, the LIS plays a role as the national land data managed and operated by the Land Data and Information Center affiliated to the General Department of Land Management (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment).

The national land data shall be connected and shared with other national data and data of ministries and authorities relevant to land use.

+ In local authorities, the LIS plays a part as the land data of provinces/central-affiliated cities (hereinafter referred to as "land data of provinces") managed, operated and updated by Land Registries of provinces.

Land data of provinces shall be collected from land data of districts/towns/provincial cities (hereinafter referred to as "land data of districts”).

Land data of districts shall be developed according to collection of land data of communes/wards/townlets.

Land data of provinces shall be connected and shared with data of other authorities in provinces.

Land data of provinces shall be connected and integrated with national land data via dedicated networks.

+ Authorities affiliated to the Departments of Natural Resources and Environment of provinces; Departments of Natural Resources and Environment of districts; cadastral officials of communes/wards/townlets shall be entitled to seek access to land data of provinces via local area networks (LANs) or wide area networks (WANs) to exploit and update information within their competence.

- The overall design of the LIS shall be created in order to apply throughout the country and shall be approved by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

(Article 5 of Circular 34/2014/TT-BTNMT)

2. Rules for developing the LIS in Vietnam

According to Clause 1, Article 4 of Circular 34/2014/TT-BTNMT, the rules for developing the LIS:

- Developing a consistent design system throughout the country; providing land data for multiple users and for multiple purposes;

- Ensuring safety, confidentiality and regular operation;

- Ensuring publicity and allowing sharing with information systems and data of relevant authorities.

3. Rules for managing and using the LIS in Vietnam

Rules for managing and using the LIS:

- Serving promptly the state management and satisfying requirements for socio-economic development and national security;

- Ensuring accuracy, truthfulness and objectivity;

- Ensuring scientism and convenience of exploitation and use of the LIS;

- Ensuring the update, completion and logic;

- Using the data for the proper purposes;

- Exploiting and using data along with fulfilling financial obligations;

- Complying with regulations of law on protection of national secrets.

(Clause 2, Article 4 of Circular 34/2014/TT-BTNMT)

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