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04 cases of payment for grant of water resource exploitation rights in Vietnam

Đức Thảo

11:48, 01/04/2021

On March 30, 2021, the Government of Vietnam issued Decree 41/2021/NĐ-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Decree 82/2017/NĐ-CP prescribing the method of calculation and level of collection of water resource exploitation rights.

According to this Decree, Clause 1, Article 1 of Decree 41 has amended and supplemented Article 3 of Decree 82 on cases of payment of rights to exploit water resources in Vietnam, specifically as follows:

Organizations and individuals who are granted permits for exploitation and use of surface water and groundwater in one of the following cases must pay money for granting rights to exploit water resources:

1. For surface water exploitation in Vietnam:

- Exploitation of surface water for power generation;

- Exploitation of surface water for business activities, services, non-agricultural production in Vietnam, including cooling water, equipment, steam generation, heating.

2. For underground water exploitation in Vietnam:

- Exploitation of underground water for business activities, services, non-agricultural production, including cooling water, equipment, steam generation, heating;

- Exploitation of underground water (except brackish and salt water in Vietnam) for aquaculture, animal husbandry, coffee, rubber, cashew, tea, pepper and other long-term industrial crops with a scale of 20 m3/day and night or more.

In detail, the Decree 41/2021/ND-CP takes effect from May 15, 2021.

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