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THE GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No.
20/2004/QD-TTg
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Hanoi,
February 18, 2004
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DECISION
ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COORDINATING
ORGANIZATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF KEY ECONOMIC REGIONS
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the
Government;
At the proposal of the Minister of Planning and Investment,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To set up the
Coordinating Organization for development of key economic regions at the
central level for coordination of development activities among branches,
localities with a view to creating unity in directing and organizing the
implementation and synchronism in investment in order to achieve high
efficiency in socio-economic development of key economic regions.
The Coordinating Organization is
not a management level; does not issue administrative decisions and is tasked
to assist the Prime Minister in coordinating ministries, branches and
localities in the key economic regions in order to efficiently develop key
economic regions of our country.
Article 2.- The structure and
apparatus of the Coordinating Organization for development of key economic
regions
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Article 3.- Tasks, powers and
composition of the Steering Board for coordination in development of key
economic regions (called the Steering Board for short)
1. Tasks and powers of the
Steering Board:
a) To direct coordination in
implementation strictly according to socio-economic, branch, regional development
plannings, in the immediate future revise the plannings to suit reality and
development requirements. To direct the implementation of matters of regional
significance such as investment in infrastructural construction, environment,
human resource development, external affairs, regional alignment.
b) To propose the Government to
promulgate mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties for socio-economic
development of key economic regions.
c) To draw up development
coordination programs of the ministries, provinces and centrally-run cities in
key economic regions.
d) To propose solutions to
boosting development coordination among the ministries, branches, provinces and
centrally-run cities in key economic regions.
e) To monitor, urge and settle
coordinating matters falling under the competence of the ministries, branches
and localities being members of the Steering Board in the course of development
coordination.
f) To organize the coordination
between key economic regions and other regions.
g) To make biannual and annual
sum-up reports on the situation of development and coordination in development
of key economic regions to the Prime Minister.
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a) The head: a deputy-prime
minister in charge of general direction and administration.
b) The standing deputy-head: The
Minister of Planning and Investment.
The standing deputy-head has the
tasks:
- To assist the head in
preparing programs and contents of activities of the Steering Board, preside
over the briefings of the specialists’ teams of the ministries, branches of the
Steering Board.
- To preside over meetings,
briefing conferences on behalf of the head of the Board when authorized by
him/her.
- To preside over, on behalf of
the Board’ head, working sessions with ministries, branches and/or localities
in key economic regions to settle specific matters related to organization of
development coordination in key economic regions.
- To sign general administration
documents of the Steering Board, reports to be submitted to the Prime Minister
and the head of the Steering Board for settlement of matters under his/her
competence.
- To perform other tasks
assigned by the Board’s head.
c) Members being vice-ministers
or the equivalent posts of the ministries and ministerial-level agencies,
including the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Communications and
Transport, the Ministry of Post and Telematics, the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment, the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Industry, the
Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of
Health, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Home Affairs,
the Ministry of Culture and Information, the Ministry of Public Security, the
Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the
Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam State Bank, the
Government Office; the deputy-general directors of Vietnam National
Administration of Tourism, Vietnam Civil Aviation Administration, Vietnam Maritime
Administration; vice-presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and
centrally-run cities in key economic regions.
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- To participate in general
administration under the Steering Board’s programs.
- To represent their ministries,
branches or localities in the Steering Board.
- To organize the realization of
development coordination programs of the ministries and localities in the key
economic regions, which have been already adopted by the Steering Board.
- To propose mechanisms and
policies to remove difficulties related to their respective branches or
localities so as to create conditions for development of key economic regions.
- To make periodical (biannual,
annual) and unexpected reports on development situation and development
coordination of their respective branches or localities with other branches
and/or localities in key economic regions.
- To propose opinions of
ministries, branches and localities on matters related to development and coordination
of development in key economic regions.
- To fully participate in
meetings and common activities of the Steering Board. In case of work transfer,
to report thereon and recommend substitutes to the head of the Steering Board.
Article 4.- Setting up the
section assisting the Steering Board
The head of the Steering Board
shall decide to set up a section assisting the Steering Board and issue
Regulation on operation of the section assisting the Steering Board on the
principle: Setting up the Steering Board’s Office consisting of the director of
the Office, 01 deputy-director of the Office and a number of full-time key
economic region-monitoring officials on the payroll of the Development Strategy
Institute of the Ministry of Planning and Investment. The Steering Board’s
Office is located at the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
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1. Tasks and powers of the
Coordination Teams (the list in Article 3, Clause 2, Item c):
a) To be organizations assisting
the ministries, branches or localities in performing the task of coordination
between the Steering Board and the ministries, branches as well as localities.
b) To ensure close coordination
among ministries, branches and localities in formulation and organization of
implementation of plannings; to make reports on matters related to the
plannings, plans and development situation of branches and localities for
submission to the Steering Board, and send them to the Steering Board’s Office
(excluding matters classified as State secrets).
c) To detect difficulties and
obstacles in development and development coordination of their respective branches
or localities and the remedial solutions.
d) To supply information related
to undertakings on branch development, impacts of mechanisms and policies,
which are currently being in force, on branches and/or localities.
e) On the basis of mechanism for
administration and mechanism for coordination, the ministries, branches and
localities shall draw up plans for materialization of the Steering Board’s
conclusions.
2. Organization of Coordination
Teams:
a) Each ministry, each branch or
locality in key economic regions has one coordination team to assist the
minister or the president of the provincial/municipal People’s Committee in the
performance of coordination tasks within the scope of its functions.
b) A Coordination Team is headed
by a vice-minister or a vice-president of the provincial/municipal People’s
Committee and composed of a number of members having professional capabilities
and working experiences. The number of members of a Coordination Team shall be
decided by its head on the basis of the work load of each ministry, branch or
locality.
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1. The coordination contents:
a) Organizing meetings,
get-togethers to discuss or brief on development results and development
coordination in key economic regions:
- Holding regional briefings
once a quarter, alternately in provinces.
- Annually holding review and
evaluation of socio-economic development coordination among localities in the
region so as to work out appropriate solutions, raise the efficiency of coordination
and cooperation in the subsequent year.
b) The coordination contents:
The localities and branches
shall base themselves on the coordination programs of the Steering Board to
draw up specific action programs of the ministries, branches or localities
along the following major coordination directions:
- Coordinating in the use of
natural resources, chiefly water resources.
- Coordinating in
infrastructural construction, chiefly in the construction of lifeline
communica-tions lines, seaports and urban development.
- Coordinating in employment of
labor for industrial parks.
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- Coordinating in propagating
for and attracting foreign investment.
- Coordinating in exhibitions,
fairs and export.
- Coordinating in training of
human resource, chiefly the training of human resource of high quality,
including hi-tech workers.
- Coordinating in disease prevention,
medical examination and treatment.
2. The coordination regulations:
a) Coordinating under action
programs already approved by the head of the Steering Board.
The standing deputy-head of the
Steering Board directly administers the coordination via the Office of the
Steering Board.
The members of the Steering
Board bear specific responsibilities for the coordination contents and
performance of the coordination tasks as assigned by the Board’s head.
b) The coordination contents,
the coordination modes and coordination responsibilities shall be discussed and
agreed upon at regional briefing conferences.
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d) If in the course of
coordination any problems arise or any issues which cannot be agreed upon among
the coordinating parties, the Steering Board’s Office shall have to synthesize
and report them to the standing deputy-head of the Steering Board in order to
ask for the head’s opinions and, if necessary, to the Prime Minister.
Article 7.- Operation funding
1. The funding for the operation
of the Steering Board and its Office shall be included in the annual budget
estimates of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, be managed and settled
according to the provisions of the State Budget Law.
2. The operation funding shall
be allocated to the Steering Board’s Office which is allowed to use the
accounts and accountancy apparatus of the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
3. The operation funding of the
Coordination Teams of the ministries, branches or localities shall be allocated
from the budgets of the ministries, branches or localities.
Article 8.- This Decision takes
effect 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette.
Article 9.- Implementation
organization
The ministers, the heads of the
ministerial-level organizations, the heads of the Government-attached agencies,
the presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run
cities in the key economic regions shall have to create favorable conditions
for the coordination organizations for development of key economic regions to
operate efficiently and have to implement this Decision.
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