Organizational structure of Viet Nam Expressway Authority

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Organizational structure of Viet Nam Expressway Authority

Vietnam Expressway Bureau is an organization under the Ministry of Transport that performs the function of advising, assisting the Minister of Transport in state management and law enforcement on investment, construction, and operation of the expressway system nationwide in accordance with law.

According to Article 3 of Decision 1245/QD-BGTVT in 2022, the Vietnam Expressway Administration has the following organizational structure:

(1) Office.

(2) Department of Planning - Finance.

(3) Department of Construction Investment Management and Exploitation.

(4) Legal Department - Procurement.

(5) Department of Science, Technology, Environment and International Cooperation.

(6) Center for Engineering and Operation of Highway Traffic.

The organizations specified from (1) to (5) are the units that assist the Director in performing the state management function; organization specified in (6) is a public non-business unit directly under the Department.

The Director of the Viet Nam Expressway Authority stipulates the functions, tasks, and powers of the organizations specified from (1) to (5) and regulations on the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the organizations specified in (6).

Tasks and powers of Viet Nam Expressway Authority

Specifically, in Article 2 of Decision 1245/QD-BGTVT in 2022, the tasks and powers of the Vietnam Expressway Administration are as follows:

- Regarding the formulation of legal documents, strategies, master plans and plans:

+ To formulate for the Minister of Transport (hereinafter referred to as the Minister) to submit to competent authorities for promulgation or promulgate according to his/her competence legal documents, mechanisms, policies on investment, construction, resource mobilization, and exploitation of the expressway system;

+ To formulate strategies, medium-term and annual plans, programs, and projects for the development of expressways nationwide;

+ To coordinate with the Vietnam Road Administration in developing legal documents, planning, mechanisms, policies, and other documents on road transport.

- Formulate national standards, national technical regulations, and economic-technical norms of expressways and submit them to the Minister for promulgation according to his/her competence or request competent agencies for appraisal and announcement; organize the elaboration and publication of highway facility standards.

- Organize and inspect the implementation of legal documents, standards, national technical regulations, mechanisms, policies, strategies, master plans, plans and schemes, and other documents related to highways; summarize the situation of highway development in the whole country.

- Organize the propagation and dissemination of the law on highway traffic and the investigation of occupational accidents occurring on means of transport circulating on expressways according to the provisions of law.

- Regarding construction investment management:

+ To exercise the authority to decide on investment and the tasks of investors in investment projects on highway construction as assigned, decentralized, and authorized by the Minister;

+ To perform the tasks of specialized agencies under the Ministry of Transport, tasks of specialized agencies in charge of construction of investment projects on the construction of expressways nationwide according to the assignment, decentralization, and authorization of the Minister;

+ To perform the tasks of the competent agencies and the contracting agencies for expressway projects invested by the Ministry of Transport as the competent agency under the method of public-private partnership (PPP) or socialization according to the assignment, decentralization, and authorization of the Minister;

+ To coordinate with the Department of Planning and Investment in appraising the Minister to submit to competent authorities for approval or approval according to his/her competence investment policies or adjustment of investment policies for expressway projects.

- Formulate and implement the administrative reform program and apply information technology in the activities of the Vietnam Expressway Administration according to the objectives and contents of the administrative reform program of the State and the Ministry of Transport.

- Receive citizens, settle complaints and denunciations, and perform anti-corruption and anti-corruption activities in accordance with the law.

- Manage the organizational apparatus, civil servants, public employees, and employees according to the provisions of law and the decentralization of the Minister; implement regimes, policies, emulation, commendation, discipline, professional training, and retraining for civil servants, public employees, and employees in accordance with law.

- Manage finance, assets, and other resources assigned according to the provisions of law and decentralization of the Minister.

- Perform other tasks and powers assigned by the Minister and in accordance with law.

(More details about other duties and rights can be found in  Article 2 of Decision 1245/QD-BGTVT in 2022)

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