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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:
153/1999/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, July 15, 1999
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DECISION
ON A NUMBER OF SALT DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of September 30, 1992;
At the proposal of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,
DECIDES:
Article
1.- Salt, including common salt (used as materials for production of
kitchen salt), salt used for industrial production and kitchen salt (iodized
salt), is an essential goods item for the people’s life and
raw material for various industries, but the production thereof is still
unstable and largely dependent on the natural conditions, and the salt makers
still meet with difficulties in their life. For this reason, it is necessary to
encourage organizations and individuals of all economic sectors to invest in
development of salt production in order to fully meet the domestic consumption
demand and then proceed to export.
1.
Regarding salt production and consumption
a) The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development shall assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the
People’s Committees of the provinces and cities where salt
is produced in revising and rearranging their salt production planning along
the following direction:
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- Investing in installation of salt washing
chains at industrial salt production areas in order to raise the salt quality;
making use and process salt by-products (plaster and residual brine), and
diversifying salt products;
b) Annually, the Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development shall work out plans for balancing the domestic salt
production output and consumption volume on the basis of consumption demand
(people’s daily life, industrial use and export), so as to set orientation for
production and consumption enterprises;
- The Ministry of Industry shall direct
chemicals enterprises using salt to give priority to the consumption of salt
supplied by domestic industrial salt production establishments;
- Basing themselves on the annual domestic salt
production and consumption situation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development, the Ministry of Trade and the Ministry of Industry shall propose
to the Prime Minister the plans for salt export and/or import to meet the
demand for raw material salt for production of kitchen salt and chemical industry,
and protection of domestic salt production;
- The People’s
Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall direct enterprises,
organizations and individuals trading in salt in their respective localities to
promptly purchase salt at reasonable prices from salt makers.
c) After consulting the Government Pricing
Committee, the presidents of the People’s
Committees of the provinces and cities where salt is produced shall announce
the minimum salt purchase price (flooring price) to the salt makers right at
the beginning of each salt production season, closely direct and inspect the
salt purchase, so as to preclude the salt purchasing organizations and
individuals from devaluing salt quality or imposing low salt prices that cause
losses to salt makers;
In cases where the sale purchase prices are
lower than the set minimum price, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development shall have to propose to the Prime Minister the support measures to
stabilize the salt production and the salt makers’ livelihood;
d) The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall
assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development and the National Reserve Department in determining the
annual national salt reserves and formulating the mechanism for management of
national salt reserves, then proposing it to the Prime Minister for decision.
2.
Regarding the investment and credit
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Dikes, sewers, vital irrigation projects and
traffic roads, as well as investment in the construction of research or
technology transfer institutions. Supports shall be rendered for the
construction of schools, power stations, medical stations and rural clean water
projects.
Initial investments shall be made in the
construction of scientific research institutions, including: working offices,
facilities and equipment, material and technical bases in service of scientific
research and technology transfer;
b) Investment credit capital for projects
ratified by the competent authorities, including:
- Investment in the construction of
establishments for salt washing, plaster and residual saline processing and
kitchen salt production;
- Building of industrial salt fields;
- Investment in renovation and upgrading of salt
fields;
c) The State Bank of Vietnam shall direct the
Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam and the credit
institutions in implementing Decision No.67/1999/QD-TTg of March 30, 1999 of
the Prime Minister on a number of credit and banking policies for agricultural
and rural development, and providing sufficient and timely loans for salt
makers to purchase raw materials, fuels and supplies for salt production, as
well as loans for organizations and individuals to purchase and consume salt;
The Bank for the Poor shall also provide loans
for the poor households meeting with great difficulties within the common
capital quotas assigned by the State at the proposals of the administrations of
communes where the salt makers reside;
d) The Ministry of Planning and Investment and
the Ministry of Finance shall seek capital sources from organizations and
individuals at home and abroad for investment, joint venture, development of
salt processing industry and large-scale industrial salt fields that can turn
out salt qualified for industrial production and export.
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All organizations and individuals are encouraged
to conduct scientific research and transfer technologies to the salt production
and processing.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development shall incorporate annual funds in its agriculture promotion plan
for realizing salt production promotion contents in order to help salt makers
produce salt and transfer technical and technological advances.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development shall work out plans for training of managerial, business and
scientific-technical personnel in salt industry, including overseas training,
in order to quickly build up a contingent of capable managerial, business and
technical personnel in the salt industry.
4.
Regarding the taxation
The Ministry of Finance shall study and propose
to the Government for subsequent submission to the National Assembly the
amendments to a number of tax policies along the following direction: exemption
of agricultural land use levy for land used for salt production; and
classification of kitchen salt and raw material salt among objects liable to
value added tax with the tax rate of 0%.
5.
Regarding the organization of salt production and consumption establishments
a) The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development and the People’s Committees of the provinces
and cities where salt is produced shall rearrange and improve State
enterprises, and renovate the management in State enterprises along the
direction of providing services for material supply, product sale and
processing; combine the salt production, processing and circulation; and
encourage all economic sectors to organize the salt production, processing and
circulation.
b) The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development shall direct the Vietnam Salt Corporation to build industrial salt
production establishments and high-quality salt production establishments;
supply salt to the mountainous areas; and support the concerned localities to
establish salt cooperatives, especially salt sale cooperatives, to help salt
makers promptly sell their salt.
Article 2.- This Decision takes effect 15 days after its
signing.
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FOR THE PRIME MINISTER
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
Nguyen Cong Tan
