Issuance of technical regulations on land surveying and assessment techniques; land conservation and restoration techniques in Vietnam

Issuance of technical regulations on land surveying and assessment techniques; land conservation and restoration techniques in Vietnam

Circular 11/2024/TT-BTNMT stipulates technical regulations on land surveying and assessment techniques; land conservation and restoration techniques in Vietnam , including:

- Techniques for land survey and evaluation include:

+ Techniques for surveying and evaluating land quality and land potential as stipulated in Clause 1, Article 53 of the Land Law 2024;

+ Techniques for surveying and evaluating land degradation as stipulated in Clause 2, Article 53 of the Land Law 2024;

+ Techniques for surveying and evaluating land pollution as stipulated in Clause 3, Article 53 of the Land Law 2024;

+ Techniques for monitoring land quality, land degradation, and land pollution as stipulated in Clause 4, Article 53 of the Land Law 2024;

+ Techniques for thematic land survey and evaluation as stipulated in Clause 2, Article 52 of the Land Law 2024.

- Techniques for land protection, rehabilitation, and restoration as stipulated in Article 54 of the Land Law 2024.

Subjects of land surveying and assessment techniques; land conservation and restoration in Vietnam

- Subjects of land quality and land degradation survey and evaluation across the country, socio-economic regions (hereinafter referred to as regional level), and provinces and centrally-run cities (hereinafter referred to as provincial level) include agricultural land and unused land (excluding rocky mountains without forest cover).

- Subjects of national, regional, and provincial land potential survey and evaluation include agricultural land, non-agricultural land, and unused land.

- Subjects of land pollution survey and evaluation:

+ Subjects of national and regional land pollution survey and evaluation include agricultural land and unused land (excluding rocky mountains without forest cover);

+ Subjects of provincial-level land pollution survey and evaluation include lands with pollution sources, including: agricultural land; unused land (excluding rocky mountains without forest cover); land planned for urban and rural residential areas.

- Subjects of land quality, land degradation, and land pollution monitoring are types of land stipulated in Clauses 1 and 3, Article 4 of Circular 11/2024/TT-BTNMT identified according to the network of fixed monitoring points nationwide.

- Subjects of thematic land survey and evaluation are one or multiple types of land stipulated in Article 9 of the Land Law 2024 as decided by competent State agencies to organize and implement thematic land survey and evaluation tasks.

- Subjects of land protection, rehabilitation, and restoration are types of land in degraded or polluted areas.

More details can be found in Circular 11/2024/TT-BTNMT which comes into force in Vietnam from August 1, 2024.

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