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THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No.
531-TTg
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Hanoi,
August08 , 1996
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DECISION
ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE NATIONAL PROGRAMS
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of September 30, 1992;
In order to enhance the management of the National Programs;
At the proposal of the Minister of Planning and Investment,
DECIDES:
I.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- A National Program is an assortment of
synchronous objectives, tasks and solutions regarding economic, social,
scientific, technological and environmental issues, mechanisms, policies and
organization in order to achieve one or several objectives laid down in the
overall strategy for national socio-economic development in a given period.
A National Program consists of various projects
to achieve the program�s
objectives. The objects of management and planning shall be determined
according to the program and investment and materialized according to the
project.
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Article 3.- Criteria for selecting a National Program:
- The issues chosen to be addressed through a
National Program must be urgent, inter-sectoral, inter-regional and important
for the national socio-economic development and should be tackled under
concentrated guidance;
- The objectives of a National Program must be
clear, measurable and lie within the overall national strategy;
- The period for implementing a program must be
specified, usually 5 years, or phased into separate five-year terms.
II.
FORMULATION OF A NATIONAL PROGRAM:
Article 4.- Basing themselves on the contents and tasks of
medium or long term plans, the Ministries, National Committees and General
Departments (hereafter referred to as Ministries) shall propose to the Ministry
of Planning and Investment urgent socio-economic issues to be included in a
list of the National Programs. The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall
coordinate with the Ministry of Finance in selecting and drawing up a list of
National Programs and recommending the managing agencies to the Government
which shall consider and submit it to the National Assembly for decision in
each period of the plan.
Article 5.- The agencies assigned to manage the National
Programs shall have to coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment,
the Ministry of Finance and other relevant Ministries, branches and localities
in organizing the formulation of programs. The programs and projects shall be
formulated during the elaboration of short-, medium or long-term plans. When an
annual plan is elaborated new programs can be proposed or the number of the
existing programs can be reduced.
Article 6.- The contents of a National Program include:
- Assessment of the actual situation of the
field to be covered by the Program, the rationale for urgent issues to be
addressed by a National Program;
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- Identification of the total funding for the
program, the annual allocations and the methods of mobilizing fund from various
sources;
- Identification of the overall socio-economic
effect of the program and the investment projects;
- Recommendations on the possible integration
with other programs;
- Schedule and tempo of implementation of the
program and projects;
- International cooperation (if any).
Article 7.- The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall
assume the main responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and
other relevant Ministries, branches and localities in appraising the National
Programs before submitting them to the Prime Minister for approval.
Only the approved programs shall be incorporated
into the plan.
Article 8.- The activities of the National Programs shall be
integrated on the following principles:
- To avoid overlapping and raise the efficiency
of the utilization of resources, the integration of the parts of various
National Programs which have interrelated objectives, activities and
implementation organization should be taken into account right from the moment
the plan is proposed, elaborated and arranged, and shall be monitored until its
implementation and evaluation;
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- During the process of considering, appraising
and funding, the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of
Finance shall propose the integration plan together with the fund allocations
to the integrated activities and submit the plan to the Prime Minister who
shall consider and assign the tasks of each in the annual plan to the
Ministries managing the programs;
- The Presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and the cities
directly under the Central Government shall take part in the management,
implementation organization and integration of the interrelated activities of
the National Programs in their localities.
Article 9.- If the conditions for funding the program�s objectives change
when the annual plans or five-year plans are elaborated, the Ministry of Planning
and Investment, the Ministry of Finance and the program managing agency(ies)
must submit the following contents to the Government for adjustment of the
program:
- Evaluation of the part of the program already
implemented;
- Rationale for the necessity and reasons for
the adjustment;
- Contents of adjustment;
- Effects of such adjustments on the ultimate
objectives of the program and the effectiveness of the adjustment.
Article 10.- The agencies managing the National Programs and
the People�s
Committees of the provinces and the cities directly under the Central
Government where National Programs are implemented must regularly report
(quarterly and yearly) on the implementation of the objectives, the funding,
etc., according to the prescribed forms. The agencies managing the programs
must coordinate with the concerned Ministries, branches and localities in
conducting mid-term review of the five year programs or five-year
implementation phases. These reports shall be sent to the Prime Minister and
concurrently to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of
Finance.
The Ministry managing the programs shall have to
assume the main responsibility and coordinate with the concerned Ministries,
branches and localities in evaluating and appraising the results of the
implementation of the National Program(s), making wrap-up reports and
submitting them to the Prime Minister for approval.
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Article 11.- Annually, on the basis of the assignment of the
planned tasks and the objectives of the National Programs, the Ministry of
Finance shall assume the main responsibility together with the Ministry of
Planning and Investment in proposing the budget allocation for each National
Program in the overall draft State budget plan to the Government for
consideration and submit it to the National Assembly for decision.
Article 12.- Basing itself on the budget allocation approved
for each program, the program managing agency shall project its allocations to
different Ministries and localities, which shall be incorporated by the
Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Planning and Investment into the plan
of each of these Ministries, branches and localities before submitting them to
the Prime Minister for consideration and decision.
Article 13.- The fund for implementing a National Program
shall derive from the Central budget and be granted directly by the Ministry of
Finance to the Ministries and branches for carrying out the centrally managed
projects, or by the provincial/municipal Finance and Pricing Service under the
mandate of the Ministry of Finance for carrying out the locally managed
projects of the Program. The management and payment of the expenditures of the
National Programs shall be performed under current provisions.
Article 14.- To fulfill the objectives of a program, in
addition to the capital deriving from the State budget, credit capital should
be mobilized from inside and outside the country, and from contributions by
different organizations and individuals. With regard to the capital mobilized
from the people, the program managing agencies and the People�s Committees of the
provinces and the cities directly under the Central Government where the
programs are implemented may use such capital for the activities within the
framework of the program, but shall have to manage and settle the accounts in
accordance with current provisions.
IV.
MANAGING AND DIRECTING THE NATIONAL PROGRAMS.
Article 15.- Tasks of the Ministry of Planning and
Investment:
- To assume the main responsibility and
coordinate with the Ministry of Finance in assisting the Prime Minister in
appraising, integrating, managing, directing, supervising and evaluating the
National Programs;
- Basing itself on the State�s orientations for
the long-term and five year socio-economic development and the proposals of the
Ministries, branches and localities, to assume the main responsibility and
coordinate with the Ministry of Finance in selecting and drawing up a list of
National Programs and of program managing agencies for the Government to
consider and present it to the National Assembly for decision;
- Together with the Ministry of Finance to
propose the budget allocation for each National Program and integrate all these
allocations into the common budget the State in order to submit them to the
Government.
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- To assume the main responsibility and
coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment in planning the budget
allocation to each National Program, integrating all these allocations into the
State�s overall
budget plan and submit them to the Government which shall present it to the
National Assembly for decision.
- To allocate fund to each program and project
approved in the plan; to guide and supervise the agencies managing the National
Program in the observance of current financial and accounting regulations. To
make a general report on the annual funding for each program and approve the
payment of expenditures for the National Programs and the projects upon their
completion, report it to the Prime Minister and concurrently send it to the
Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Article 17.- Tasks of the agencies managing the National
Programs:
- The agencies managing the National Programs
shall have to assume the main responsibility and coordinate with the concerned
Ministries and localities in organizing and formulating the programs and
projects under the assignment of the Government, and send them to the Ministry
of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance for appraisal before
submitting them to the Prime Minister for approval;
- To set up the Managing Committee of the
National Programs to assist the Head of the agency in managing and implementing
the program and dissolve it upon the termination of the program. The Program
manager shall be a leading official of the Ministry, the committee shall
include competent representatives of such departments as planning, finance and
other relevant spheres. The Regulation on the operation of the Managing
Committee of the National Program shall be decided by the program managing
agency on the basis of the provisions in this Decision;
- With regard to the National Programs of
special importance which require the participation of officials of various
Ministries and local officials in their Managing Committees, the membership of
the Managing Committees and their operational regulation shall be decided by
the Prime Minister;
- To take responsibility for the management and
allocation of the fund and the organization of the accounting work so as to
manage the program�s
funding sources in accordance with the State regime on financial management;
- To take responsibility for the settlement of
the expenditures of the program with the Ministry of Finance and submit to the
auditing by a State audit agency in accordance with current provisions.
Article 18.- The People�s Committees of the provinces and the cities
directly under the central Government shall have:
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- To request for change(s) in the objective(s)
of a project of the program in their localities when finding out that such
objectives are unrealistic and not suited to the actual situation of the
locality;
- To create every favorable condition for the
fruitful implementation of the program(s), organizing the integration and
conducting the program�s
activities in the locality;
- To set up the Steering Committee for the
National Programs in the locality to assist the People�s Committee of the province or the city directly
under the Central Government in planning, implementing and directing the
National Program in the locality. The Head of the Steering Committee shall be a
leading official of the People�s
Committee of the province or the city directly under the Central Government;
and its members shall include competent representatives of the
provincial/municipal Planning and Investment Service, Finance and Pricing
Service and other specialized services with the Planning and Investment Service
as the standing coordinator.
V.
IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS
Article 19.- This decision takes effect from
September 1st, 1996.
- The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall
coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and other concerned Ministries in
guiding the implementation of this Decision.
- The ongoing National Programs which have not
yet satisfied the criteria and completed the procedures prescribed in this
Decision shall be submitted to the Prime Minister for approval.
Article
20.- The Ministers, the Heads of the ministerial-level agencies and the
agencies attached to the Government, the Presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and the cities
directly under the Central Government shall have to implement this Decision.
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FOR THE PRIME MINISTER
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
Nguyen Khanh