Qualification conditions for land survey and assessment units in Vietnam

Qualification conditions for land survey and assessment units in Vietnam (Internet image)

1. Land survey and assessment activities in Vietnam

According to Article 4 of Circular 35/2014/TT-BTNMT, land survey and assessment activities in Vietnam are as follows:

- Survey and assessment of land in the whole country, socio-economic regions (regional level), including the following activities:

+ Investigate and evaluate land quality and potential; investigate land degradation;

+ Monitor and supervise land resources;

+ Investigate and evaluate land by topic.

- Land survey and assessment of provinces and centrally run cities (provincial level) includes the following activities:

+ Investigate and evaluate land quality and potential; investigate land degradation;

+ Investigate and evaluation of soil pollution are carried out in areas with local sources of pollution;

+ Investigate and classificate agricultural land shall be carried out for the group of agricultural land, except for other agricultural land.

- Land survey and assessment activities are carried out periodically or irregularly according to tasks, specifically as follows:

+ The activities specified at Point a, Clause 1, Points a, b, c, Clause 2, Article 4 of Circular 35/2014/TT-BTNMT shall be carried out every 5 years, with the first comprehensive investigation and review, adjusting and supplementing for the next time:

++ Investigate and evaluate land quality and potential; investigate land degradation;

++ Investigate and evaluate land quality and potential; investigate land degradation;

++ Investigate and evaluate of soil pollution are carried out in areas with local sources of pollution;

++ Investigate and classificate agricultural land shall be carried out for the group of agricultural land, except for other agricultural land.

+ Monitore activities of land resources are carried out annually;

+ Thematic land survey and assessment activities are carried out irregularly at the request of the State management of land when there is a decision and approval of the mandate of the competent authority.

2. Land survey and assessment of Vietnam and each region in Vietnam

The contents of the land survey and assessment of the whole country and region according to Article 5 of Circular 35/2014/TT-BTNMT are as follows:

(1) Contents of the first land survey and assessment, including:

+ Collect information, documents, data, maps;

+ Plan and survey; collect field soil samples

+ Synthesize and process information on internal and external documents;

+ Build a map of land quality and land potential; land degradation map;

+ Assess the current state of land quality and potential; assess land degradation;

+ Propose solutions for protecting and improving land, as well as orienting sustainable land use management.

+ Create evaluation reports on land quality and potential; land degradation.

(2) The following items will be included in the next land survey and assessment:

+ Investigate and supplement information, documents, data, maps, field surveys, and documents pertaining to process investigations;

+ Build a map of land quality and land potential; land degradation map;

+ Analyze and evaluate changes in land quality and land potential; land degradation in comparison to the previous period; and propose additional solutions to protect and improve land, as well as orient sustainable land use management.

+ Create evaluation reports on land quality and potential; land degradation.

(3) Contents of annual monitoring of land resources, including:

+ Plan and collect samples for monitoring of land resources;

+ Compile monitoring data, analyze and evaluate soil quality, land degradation, and land pollution criteria, and provide early warning of degraded and heavily polluted areas that require monitoring.

+ Create monitoring reports to track land resources.

(4) Contents of land survey and assessment by subject, including:

+ Identify areas for land survey and assessment by subject.

+ Investigate and supplement information, documents, data, maps, field surveys, and documents pertaining to process investigations;

+ Develop maps of soil quality, land potential, and land degradation of thematic soil types;

+ Analyze and evaluate changes in land quality and land potential; land degradation of land types based on thematic survey, with recommendations for additional solutions to protect and improve the land; sustainable land use management

+ Create topic-specific reports on survey and land evaluation results. 

3. Contents of provincial land survey and assessment

According to Article 6 of Circular 35/2014/TT-BTNMT, the contents of land survey and assessment at provincial level are as follows:

- Contents of investigation and assessment of land quality and land potential; Land degradation shall comply with the following provisions:

+ The investigation and assessment for the first time shall comply with the provisions of paragraph (1), Section 2;

+ The next investigation and assessment shall comply with the provisions of (2), item 2.

- Contents of investigation and assessment of soil pollution, including:

+ Gather information, documents, data, and maps to identify land pollution sources and areas at risk of land pollution.

+ Plan and survey soil sampling in the field;

+ Analyze soil samples, synthesizing data and warning areas of contaminated soil and at risk of pollution (near-pollution);

+ Develop a map of contaminated land areas;

+ Propose solutions for protecting and improving land, as well as orienting sustainable land use management.

+ Prepare an assessment report on the status of soil pollution.

- Contents of investigation and classification of agricultural land, including:

+ Collecting information, documents, data, maps;

+ Effective land use planning and field investigation;

+ Synthesize and process information on internal and external documents;

Create an agricultural land classification map;

+ Write a report on the results of agricultural land classification.

4. Qualification conditions for land survey and assessment units in Vietnam

Qualification conditions for land survey and assessment units according to Article 12 of Circular 35/2014/TT-BTNMT are as follows:

(1) Non-profit organizations and businesses may conduct land surveys and assessments if they meet the following criteria:

- Having the function of conducting land survey and assessment;

- There are at least 05 individuals who meet the conditions specified in (2) of this section;

- Having sufficient equipment and technology suitable to the method of implementation according to the technical regulations on land survey and assessment of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

(2) A person conducting land survey and assessment in an organization with the function of consulting on land investigation and assessment when all of the following conditions are met:

- Having civil act capacity;

- Having one of the university or postgraduate diplomas majoring in land management, cadastral, soil science, soil environment and other majors related to land survey and assessment ;

- Having worked in the field of land survey and assessment as prescribed in Section 1 or the survey and assessment of land in the agricultural field for 36 months or more.

(3) Units that analyze soil samples must have a soil analysis laboratory that has been certified by a competent authority.

Quoc Dat

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