Principles for organization and conditions for merging administrative units in Vietnam from March 1, 2025

Principles for organization and conditions for merging administrative units in Vietnam from March 1, 2025

- The organization of administrative units is carried out according to the following principles:

+ Compliance with the provisions of the Constitution and the law; ensuring the stability, smoothness, and continuity of state management;

+ Suitability to the socio-economic development strategy of each period, consistent with the characteristics, natural conditions, society, historical traditions, culture, and requirements for ensuring national defense, security, order, and social safety of each locality;

+ Suitability to the management capacity of the local government apparatus, the level of digital transformation; ensuring that tasks and administrative procedures related to the people, businesses, and society are received and promptly and conveniently resolved;

+ Reorganization of administrative units not meeting the standards prescribed by law.

- The establishment, merger, or division of administrative units, and the adjustment of the administrative unit boundaries must ensure the following conditions:

+ Compliance with relevant planning approved by competent authorities;

+ Ensuring the common interests of the nation, the effectiveness, and efficiency of state management by local governments at all levels; maximizing potential and advantages to promote the socio-economic development of the country and each locality;

+ Ensuring requirements for national defense, security, order, and social safety;

+ Ensuring ethnic solidarity, in line with the historical and cultural traditions of the locality; creating convenience for the people;

+ Must be based on the standards of administrative units suitable to the characteristics of rural, urban, and island areas as prescribed by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly.

- The dissolution of administrative units is only executed in the following cases:

+ Due to socio-economic development requirements, ensuring national defense and security of the locality or the country;

+ Due to changes in geographical factors that affect the existence of the administrative unit.

Refer to more details in the Law on the Organization of Local Government 2025, effective from March 1, 2025.

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