THE
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
64/2001/TT-BTC
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Hanoi, August 10, 2001
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CIRCULAR
GUIDING THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REGULATION ON MANAGEMENT OF THE STATE CAPITAL AT OTHER
ENTERPRISES
In furtherance of the Government’s Decree
No.73/2000/ND-CP of December 6, 2000 promulgating the Regulation on management
of the State capital at other enterprises, the Finance Ministry hereby guides
the implementation of the said Regulation as follows:
I. THE STATE CAPITAL AT OTHER ENTERPRISES
INCLUDES
- The capital amounts stipulated in Article 3 of
the Regulation on management of the State capital at other enterprises, issued
together with the Government’s Decree No.73/2000/ND-CP of December 6, 2000
(hereafter called Regulation attached to Decree No.73/2000/ND-CP for short);
- The reduced and exempted enterprise income tax
amounts, which are brought about by the State’s preferential investment policy
and retained at enterprises to increase the State capital proportion therein;
- 30% of the value of equity capital remitted by
laborers upon the transfer of equities within the enterprise, which is assigned
to the laborers collective according to the provisions at Point 5, Article 10,
Chapter II of the Government’s Decree No.103/1999/ND-CP of September 10, 1999
on the assignment, sale, business contracting and lease of State enterprises;
- The State’s additional investments in
enterprises.
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The State shall manage its capital at other
enterprises through its representatives and direct managers:
1. For the representatives of the State capital:
Their rights and obligations shall be effected according to the provisions in
Articles 6, 7 and 8 of the Regulation on management of the State capital at
other enterprises, issued together with the Government’s Decree
No.73/2000/ND-CP of December 6, 2000.
2. For the direct managers of the State capital:
2.1. The representatives shall appoint the
direct managers of the State capital at other enterprises in the following
cases:
a/ The State invests by contributing capital,
property, land rentals or land use right value to joint-venture enterprises
(domestic and overseas) and limited liability companies.
b/ The State holds dominant stake at joint-stock
companies (concretely, the State’s shares represent more than 50% of the total
shares of an enterprise or are equal to or twice as many as shares of the
biggest shareholder in the enterprise).
In cases where the State’s capital contributed
to a joint-stock company fails to reach the above-mentioned dominant percentage
but the investment level in the company is high, if deeming it necessary for
the management and supervision requirements, the representative may consider
and decide to appoint a direct manager. For other cases, the representative may
not appoint a direct manager but must organize the work so as to ensure the
monitoring of the State capital amount already invested in the enterprise as
well as the amount of profit generated therefrom, and assign people to exercise
the shareholders rights according to the charter of the enterprise.
2.2. In cases where the representative of the
State capital is the Finance Ministry as specified at Point 1, Article 6 of the
Regulation attached to Decree No.73/2000/ND-CP, the Finance Ministry shall
authorize the heads of the ministries, economic-technical branches or agencies,
that have issued the enterprise establishment decisions, to appoint the direct
managers; after obtaining written consents from the Finance Ministry, the heads
of the above-mentioned agencies shall decide on the appointment of the direct
managers of the State capital at other enterprises.
2.3. Basing him/herself on the investment
capital amount, the management and supervision requirements as well as the
enterprise’s charter, a representative may appoint 1 or 2 direct managers of
the State capital at another enterprise, decide on the working regime and
specify the responsibility of the direct manager(s). Where 2 direct managers
are appointed, they must assign among themselves a person to take the prime
responsibility.
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- The direct managers shall be selected from the
economic-technical branch management agencies (ministries, branch-managing
provincial/municipal services); the financial management agencies (the
Enterprise Finance Department, the provincial/municipal Finance-Pricing
Services); the enterprises superior bodies (corporations, companies), or from
the very enterprises that have contributed capital to other enterprises. The
direct managers participating in the enterprises control boards must have
professional qualifications regarding the enterprise finance management.
Cases of appointing the enterprises
representatives to work as the direct managers at other enterprises shall have
to comply with the provisions in Clause 1, Article 50 of the Law on Enterprise
Bankruptcy.
2.4. The criteria for the direct managers shall
comply with Article 11 of the Regulation issued together with Decree
No.73/2000/ND-CP. The direct managers must neither contribute, lend capital to
nor sign trading contracts with, enterprises having the State capital under
their direct management (except for subjects entitled to purchase equities for
the first time from equitized State enterprises according to the provisions of
Decision No.202/HDBT of June 8, 1992 of the chairman of the Council of
Ministers, now the Prime Minister, regarding the experimental transformation of
a number of State enterprises into joint-stock companies; the Government’s
Decree No.28/CP of May 7, 1996 on the transformation of a number of State
enterprises into joint-stock companies; and the Government’s Decree
No.44/1998/ND-CP of June 29, 1998 on the transformation of State enterprises
into joint-stock companies).
III. REPORTING REGIME AND NORMS:
1. For the direct managers
1.1. Basing themselves on the financial reports
and other reports of enterprises, the direct managers shall have to compile
enterprise dossiers to monitor the enterprises and perform their management
tasks as prescribed.
The direct managers shall have to make reports
(quarterly and annual) on a number of financial norms according to the set
form, that include analysis and evaluation of the situation on capital management
and use at the enterprises, their solvency, business results and profit
sharing; and propose measures to remove difficulties and obstacles in order to
efficiently use the State capital invested at other enterprises.
1.2. Places for receipt of reports and reporting
time limits
Quarterly (by the 30th of the first month of the
following quarter at the latest) and annually (by April 30 of the following
year at the latest), the direct managers shall have to send reports with all
the above-mentioned contents to the representatives. In cases where the direct
managers are appointed according to the provisions at Clause 1, Article 6 of
the Regulation attached to Decree No.73/2000/ND-CP, they shall send the reports
to the Finance Ministry, and concurrently to the ministries or
economic-technical branches that have issued decisions to appoint them the
direct managers of the State capital at other enterprises.
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- The representatives so request;
- There appear big issues affecting the business
results of enterprises that require opinions of the representatives.
1.4. In cases where the direct managers are not
appointed, the representatives shall have to assign people to monitor and
report on the above-mentioned contents.
2. For the representatives:
Basing themselves on the financial reports of
other enterprises and periodical reports of the direct managers, the
representatives shall have the responsibility:
- To exercise their rights and perform their
obligations according to the provisions in Section II of the Regulation
attached to Decree No.73/2000/ND-CP;
- Biannually and annually, to sum up the norms
reported by the direct managers according to each type of enterprises with
State-contributed capital: foreign-invested enterprises, joint-stock companies,
limited liability companies...Analyze and make reports on the enterprises�
financial situation strictly according to the contents stipulated at Point 2,
Article 8 of the Regulation attached to Decree No.73/2000/ND-CP;
- To send their reports to the Finance Ministry
(the Enterprise Finance Department) by July 31 at the latest, for biannual
reports, and by May 31 of the following year, for annual reports. For the
representatives defined at Clause 3, Article 6 of the Regulation attached to
Decree No.73/2000/ND-CP, they must concurrently send the reports to the
agencies that have decided the establishment of State enterprises with capital
invested in other enterprises.
In addition to the above-mentioned reports, the
representatives shall have to make other extraordinary reports at the request
of the Finance Ministry in order to meet the State financial management
requirements.
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The handling of divided profits and the
retrieval of State investment capital from other enterprises shall be effected
as follows:
1. Where the Finance Ministry or the People’s
Committee of a province or centrally-run city is the representative:
- Other enterprises shall have to remit to the
Fund for reorganization and equitization of the centrally- or locally-run State
enterprises according to the provisions of the Prime Minister’s Decision
No.177/1999/QD-TTg of August 30, 1999 and the Finance Minister’s Decision
No.95/2000/QD-BTC of June 9, 2000, the following amounts:
1.1. The amounts of profit shared from other
enterprises;
1.2. The amount of capital retrieved upon the
decision to reduce the State capital at other enterprises or upon the
dissolution or bankruptcy of enterprises;
1.3. The money amount that had been lent to
laborers to buy equities upon the equitization of State enterprises, now
retrieved;
1.4. The retrieved value of equities divided to
laborers in enterprises so that the latter may enjoy dividends therefrom and
equities sold on credit to poor laborers in enterprises.
The direct managers of the State capital at other
enterprises shall have to urge enterprises to remit in time the above-mentioned
amounts.
- Based on the proposals of other enterprises
having the State capital and the direct managers of the State capital at such
enterprises, the use of the divided profits to increase the State capital at
other enterprises shall be considered and decided by the Finance Minister after
the heads of the economic-technical branch management agencies give their
opinions (if the Finance Ministry is the representative), or by the president
of the People’s Committee of the province or centrally-run city (if the
People’s Committee of the province or centrally-run city is the
representative).
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- Other enterprises shall have to remit to the
State enterprises (being the representatives of the capital contributed to
other enterprises) the following amounts:
2.1. The profits shared from other enterprises;
2.2. The differences from the sale or retrieval
of the State capital (upon deciding on the sale or reduction of the State
capital at other enterprises).
2.3. The capital amount retrieved upon the
decision on reduction of the State capital at other enterprises or upon the
dissolution or bankruptcy of enterprises.
2.4. The money amount that had been lent to
laborers to buy equities upon equitization of State enterprises, now retrieved.
2.5. The retrieved value of equities that had
been divided to laborers within enterprises so that the latter may enjoy
dividends therefrom and equities sold on credit to poor laborers within
enterprises.
The divided profits; the price differences from
the sale or retrieval of capital stipulated at Points 2.1. and 2.2. of this
Section (after subtracting the sale expenses) shall be accounted in the
business results.
In case of capital retrieval stipulated at
Points 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 of this Section, the difference resulting from the
decrease of initial investment capital must be accounted by State enterprises
into their business results.
The direct managers of the State capital at other
enterprises shall have to urge the enterprises to remit in time the
above-mentioned amounts.
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V. IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS
This Circular takes effect as from the effective
date of the Government’s Decree No.73/2000/ND-CP of December 6, 2000. The
earlier provisions contrary to this Circular are hereby annulled.
In the course of implementation, if any problem
arises, it should be promptly reported to the Finance Ministry for study and
settlement.
FOR THE FINANCE MINISTER
VICE MINISTER
Tran Van Ta