Preparing conditions for the Land Law (amended) to come into effect

Emphasizing that land and land management are large, important, and complex fields, related to all aspects of life and of concern to every citizen, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha stated that the improvement of land policies and laws has always received special attention from Party and State leaders, in which the important political basis is Resolution 18-NQ/TW on continuing to innovate and improve institutions and policies, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of land management and use, creating momentum to turn our country into a developed country with high income.

"The National Assembly passed the Land Law (amended) at the 5th Extraordinary Session, consisting of 16 chapters and 260 articles, contributing to resolving many current problems and difficulties in land management; at the same time contributing to creating future development with new and breakthrough thinking and perspectives," Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha affirmed.

To put the Law into practice, the Deputy Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Justice to submit to the Prime Minister a plan to issue legal documents: a general decree guiding articles, clauses and specialized fields such as rice land management; land use fee collection; land valuation; recovery, compensation, resettlement; basic investigation of land data information, etc.

In addition, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will advise on the development of an implementation plan, including decrees, decisions of the Prime Minister and circulars; a project to communicate policies, disseminate and popularize the law, and bring the provisions and regulations of the Law to be implemented and effectively applied in practice. Along with that, training and dissemination activities will be carried out for leaders and land managers from the central to local levels; and conditions for law enforcement will be prepared, such as perfecting and arranging the apparatus, and building a database of land information to serve the valuation work in 2025...

At the same time, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment urgently develops and submits to the Government a Decree regulating sea encroachment; presides over the development of draft decrees detailing a number of articles of the Law on compensation, support and resettlement; conducts basic investigations and databases, and sanctions for administrative violations in the land sector; sends documents to localities to review and issue detailed regulations according to their authority to create a synchronous legal corridor when the law comes into effect.

Along with presiding over the drafting of decrees on guidelines for rice land use, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development updates new policies in the Decree amending and supplementing Decree No. 156/2018/ND-CP of the Government detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Forestry Law.

The Deputy Prime Minister requested a thorough review of the provisions of the Law assigning the Government, Prime Minister, and Ministers to coordinate in developing a general guiding decree and a number of specific specialized decrees in the general spirit of "minimizing the number of decrees, implementing and applying the law scientifically and strictly".

"Ministries and branches need to review and proactively propose the number of decrees assigned to be developed, and detailed guiding circulars, which must be issued 2 months in advance, according to the effective date of the provisions in the Law, which are April 1, 2024 and January 1, 2025," said the Deputy Prime Minister.

The Deputy Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Planning and Investment to preside over and coordinate the development of two pilot projects according to the Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee on separating the work of land acquisition, clearance and resettlement from public investment projects; implementing commercial housing projects through agreements on receiving land use rights other than residential land in some localities with implementation capacity or special conditions according to specific criteria.

At the meeting, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Le Minh Ngan said that the Ministry has drafted a plan to implement the Law and submitted it to the Prime Minister for promulgation, assigning specific tasks to each ministry and branch to develop sub-law documents with specific progress; deploy training, propaganda, dissemination of the Law's content, implementation documents, inspection and supervision work, etc.

Leaders of the ministries of Justice, Agriculture and Rural Development, Finance, Planning and Investment, etc. reported and discussed the roadmap and orientation for developing documents guiding the implementation of the Law within the scope of specialized management, according to the Plan of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.