Amendments to various Circulars on management, operation, use, maintenance, and protection of roads in Vietnam

Amendments to various Circulars on management, operation, use, maintenance, and protection of roads in Vietnam

Circular 06/2023/TT-BGTVT primarily replaces the phrase “General Department of Vietnam Road” with “Vietnam Road Administration” in previously issued Circulars to conform to the organizational structure specified in Decree 56/2022/ND-CP.

The Circulars related to the management, exploitation, use, maintenance, and protection of roads in Vietnam that have been amended include:

- Circular 26/2012/TT-BGTVT prescribing the identification and handling of hazardous locations on exploitable roads.

- Circular 11/2014/TT-BGTVT guiding the design, construction, and acceptance of pedestrian suspension bridges.

- Circular 12/2014/TT-BGTVT guiding the management, operation, and exploitation of rural traffic bridges.

- Circular 17/2014/TT-BGTVT specifying the job standards at vehicle weight control stations on roads.

- Circular 22/2014/TT-BGTVT guiding the development of procedures for operating and exploiting ferry and passenger wharves using single-hull ferries for passenger and automobile transport.

- Circular 32/2014/TT-BGTVT guiding the management, operation, and exploitation of rural traffic roads.

- Circular 84/2014/TT-BGTVT prescribing traffic organization and the placement of weight limit signs on road bridges.

- Circular 90/2014/TT-BGTVT guiding certain aspects of managing, exploiting, and maintaining highway infrastructure.

- Circular 08/2015/TT-BGTVT prescribing rescue activities and the estimation standards for rescue operations on highways.

- Circular 46/2015/TT-BGTVT regulating road load limits, vehicle dimension limits; the operation of overweight, oversized vehicles and tracked vehicles on the roads; the transport of extra-heavy, extra-long cargo; and the loading limits of road transport vehicles participating in road traffic.

- Circular 50/2015/TT-BGTVT guiding Decree 11/2010/ND-CP.

- Circular 29/2017/TT-BGTVT specifying training for traffic safety auditors and the management of road traffic safety auditor certificates.

- Circular 37/2018/TT-BGTVT prescribing the management, operation, exploitation, and maintenance of road infrastructure works.

- Circular 04/2019/TT-BGTVT prescribing road patrolling to protect road transport infrastructure works.

- Circular 31/2019/TT-BGTVT prescribing the speed and safe distance rules for motor vehicles and special-use motorcycles participating in road traffic.

- Circular 48/2019/TT-BGTVT prescribing the criteria for monitoring, acceptance of maintenance results, and the application of maintenance methods for road transport infrastructure assets based on functional implementation quality.

- Circular 39/2020/TT-BGTVT guiding the method for developing pricing plans, managing public service prices for the maintenance of road transport infrastructure and the operation of road ferry wharves on the national highway system using regular expenditure funds from the central budget under the ordering method.

- Circular 40/2020/TT-BGTVT prescribing the bidding and ordering for public service provision in the operation of road ferry wharves managed by the Ministry of Transport using regular expenditure funds from the central budget.

- Circular 44/2021/TT-BGTVT promulgating the regular road management and maintenance rates.

Circular 06/2023/TT-BGTVT takes effect in Vietnam from July 1, 2023.

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