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THE
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
79/2002/QD-BNN
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Hanoi,
August 28, 2002
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DECISION
PROMULGATING AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS TO SPENDING NORMS OF
THE PROJECT ON PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF COASTAL SUBMERGED LAND AREAS IN
SOUTH VIETNAM
THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree
No.73/CP of November 1, 1995 defining the functions, tasks, powers and
organizational structure of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development;
Pursuant to Credit Agreement No.3292-VN of February 24, 2000 and Agreement
No.TF023742 of February 27, 2001 on the Danish Non-Refundable Aid, signed
between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the International Development
Association;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s Decision No.25/QD-TTg of February 21, 2000
approving the feasible project on protection and development of coastal
submerged land areas in four provinces of Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Soc Trang and Tra
Vinh in South Vietnam;
Pursuant to the Finance Ministry’s Decision No.112/2001/QD-BTC of November 9,
2001 promulgating spending norms applicable to projects funded by ODA loan
capital;
At the proposal of the director of the Finance and Accounting Department,
DECIDES:
Article 1.-
To promulgate amendments and supplements to spending norms of the project on
protection and development of coastal submerged land areas in South Vietnam
(see enclosed Appendix).
Article 2.-
This Decision takes effect as from the date of its signing. The earlier
documents, which are contrary to this Decision, are hereby annulled.
Article 3.-
The director of the Office, the directors and heads of the relevant functional
departments and divisions, of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development, the members of the central and provincial project administration
boards and the central and provincial project managers shall have to implement
this Decision.
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FOR THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE
AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
VICE MINISTER
Nguyen Van Dang
GUIDANCE FOR APPLICATION
OF SPENDING NORMS OF THE PROJECT ON PROTECTION AND
DEVELOPMENT OF COASTAL SUBMERGED LAND AREAS IN SOUTH VIETNAM
(Issued together with Decision No.79/2002/QD-BNN of August 28, 2002 of the
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development)
Pursuant to the Prime
Minister’s Decision No.25/QD-TTg of February 21, 2000 ratifying the feasible
project on protection and development of coastal submerged land areas in four
provinces of Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Soc Trang and Tra Vinh in South Vietnam;
Pursuant to Credit Agreement No.3292-VN of February 24, 2000 and Agreement
No.TF023742 of February 27, 2001 on the Danish Non-Refundable Aid signed
between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the International Development
Association;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No.77/2000/ND-CP of December 15, 2000 and
Joint Circular No.72/2000/TTLT-BTCCBCP-BTC of December 26, 2000 of the Government
Commission for Organization and Personnel and the Finance Ministry adjusting
the minimum wage, subsidy and subsistence allowance levels.
Pursuant to the Finance Ministry’s Circular No.94/1998/TT-BTC prescribing the
working trip allowance regime for State officials and public employees sent on
working missions within the country and Circular No.93/1998/TT-BTC of June 30,
1998 prescribing the conference spending regime.
Pursuant to the Finance Ministry’s Decision No.112/2001/QD-BTC of November 9,
2001 promulgating a number of spending norms applicable to projects funded with
official development assistance (ODA) loan capital.
Pursuant to Decision No.1881/QD/BNN-TCCB of May 23, 2000 of the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development to set up the Central Administration Board
for the project on protection and development of coastal submerged land areas
in South Vietnam.
Pursuant to Decision No.2892/QD/BNN-TCCB of July 21, 2000 of the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development promulgating the Regulation on organization
of implementation of the project on protection and development of coastal
submerged land areas in South Vietnam.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development hereby prescribes spending
norms applicable to the project on protection and development of coastal
submerged land areas in South Vietnam, as follows:
A. WAGE AND
ALLOWANCE REGIMES
1. Wage and
insurance regimes:
1.1. Public employees, who are
on the payroll of the State administrative and non-business agencies and
transferred for long-term work at the project management boards, shall enjoy
their full wages (as before they are transferred to the project) under the
Government’s Decree No.25/CP of May 23, 1993 temporarily providing for the new
wage regime applicable to officials and public employees of administrative and
non-business agencies and people’s armed forces.
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In cases where their former agencies
no longer pay them wages, such part-time or dispatched officials shall have
their wages paid by the project under the State’s current regime.
1.3. Remunerations/wages of
laborers recruited under contracts by the project management boards (applicable
to long-term contracts of 12 months or longer)
Contractual laborers working for
the project shall enjoy wages equal to those of payroll laborers, who have been
trained and have equivalent professional qualifications and jobs, according to
the rank and grade coefficients prescribed in Decree No.25/CP of May 23, 1993
and its guiding documents.
1.4. Remunerations for laborers
recruited under seasonal labor contracts by the project management boards
For subjects outside the State
payroll and recruited by the directors of the central- or provincial-level
project management boards, who agree to pay them according to work contents
under seasonal labor contracts, the payment levels shall be as follows:
- Administrative staff: VND
410,000/person/month (22 workdays/40 hours/week)
- Drivers: VND
460,000/person/month (22 workdays/40 hours/week)
- Technicians: VND
900,000/person/month (22 workdays/40 hours/week)
(The above-mentioned subjects
shall neither be entitled to enjoy the project wage subsidies nor have their social
and health insurance premiums and trade union fees paid by the project).
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1.5. The social and health
insurance regimes applicable to officials, public employees and laborers
recruited under long-term labor contracts shall comply with current
regulations.
2. The
project subsidy regime:
2.1. For the State payroll
officials transferred or dispatched to, or laborers working under long-term
labor contracts for, the project, who involve in the project management
throughout its execution duration as mentioned in Items 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3
(except for hired foreign specialists and laborers specified at Item 1.4):
+ The central and provincial
project managers shall enjoy a subsidy level not exceeding 100% of the basic
wage level (according to the basic coefficients prescribed in Decree No.25/CP
of May 23, 1993), depending on the extent of their involvement in the part-time
or full-time work.
+ Other officials of the central
and provincial project management boards (such as full-time, part-time and
dispatched officials as well as those working under long-term contracts) shall
enjoy a subsidy level equal to 50%-100% of the basic wage level (according to
the basic coefficients prescribed in Decree No.25/CP of May 23, 1993),
depending on their time amounts devoted to, and responsibilities assigned under
the project, as decided by the central or provincial project managers.
+ The subsidies for part-time
and dispatched officials must be compatible with their working time amounts
devoted to the project. Officials working part time for many project management
boards shall enjoy subsidies in only one board where they spent most of their
working time.
2.2. For long-term contractual
laborers doing the project’s simple jobs other than the professional ones as
mentioned at Item 1.3 such as car drivers, administrative staff..., the subsidy
level shall be equal to 30%-50% of the basic wage level as decided by the
central or provincial project managers.
Note: All the above-mentioned
subsidy levels must not exceed the total amount already approved by competent
authority according to plans for each project year or period.
B. SPENDING
REGIME APPLICABLE TO PARTICIPANTS IN DOMESTIC SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
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a/ Subsidy for meal expenses and
per diems: For training and refresher courses, conferences and seminars held in
Vietnam, it shall not exceed:
+ For the central level: VND
80,000/person/day
+ For the provincial level: VND
60,000/person/day
+ For the district level: VND
40,000/person/day
+ For the commune level: VND
20,000/person/day
The project management boards
must clearly notify in the invitations sent to participants in training and
refresher courses, conferences and seminars, of their entitlements.
b/ Travelling and accommodation
expenses: must be evidenced with lawful and valid vouchers and comply with the
provisions in Section C- Working trip and field-trip allowances
c/ Stationery expenses: shall
not exceed:
+ For the central level: VND
40,000/person/course
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+ For the district level: VND
20,000/person/ course
+ For the commune level: VND
10,000/person/ course
d/ Materials printing expenses:
shall be paid according to reasonable and actual spendings but must not exceed
the approved estimate.
e/ Lecturer-hiring expenses:
The lecturer-hiring expenses
shall be decided by the project managers on the basis of the lecturers’
qualifications, the lectures’ characteristics and venues..., which, in all
circumstances, must not exceed the following ceiling levels:
- For lecturers being officials
or teachers holding academic titles of professor or associate professor,
leading officials being ministers, vice ministers, heads or deputy heads of the
centrally-run branches, Party Committee secretaries or deputy secretaries,
presidents or vice presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and
centrally-run cities and equivalent positions: VND 100,000/lecture hour.
- For other lecturers: Lecturers
being agencies’ officials:
+ The central level: not
exceeding VND 80,000/lecture hour
+ The provincial level: not
exceeding VND 60,000/lecture hour
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+ The commune level: not
exceeding VND 20,000/lecture hour.
(The above-mentioned ceiling
levels already include payment for lecturing and lecture materials
preparation).
When making working trips,
lecturers shall get their travelling, meal and accommodation allowances paid
according to the project’s stipulations in Section C- Working mission and
field-trip allowances.
f/ Interpretation expenses (if
any): shall comply with the provisions in Section D- Interpretation and
translation expenses.
g/ Conference hall rents: shall
be paid according to reasonable and actual spendings but must not exceed:
- For the central level: VND
1,000,000/day
- For the provincial level: VND
500,000/day
- For the district and commune
levels: VND 300,000/day.
h/ Drink expenses:
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+ For the central and provincial
levels: VND 15,000/person/day
+ For the district and commune
levels: VND 10,000/person/day
i/ Other conference and seminar
expenses such as those for equipment hiring or backdrop preparation shall be
paid according to the actual spending regime as decided by the directors of the
project management boards in a thrifty and reasonable manner.
C. WORKING
MISSION AND FIELD-TRIP ALLOWANCES
1. Working mission allowances:
- Officials sent on working
missions to delta and midland provinces shall enjoy an allowance of VND
30,000/day/person.
- Officials sent on working
missions to highland, island, border and deep-lying provinces shall enjoy an
allowance of VND 50,000/day/person.
2. Field- trip allowances:
Officials making
intra-provincial working trips to the field in the project area (for a distance
of at least 20 km) shall enjoy a field-trip allowance of VND 40,000/day/person.
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* Officials making field trips
who enjoy allowances from DANIDA’s non-refundable aid sources under Decision
No.5054/QD/BNN-TCKT of October 25, 2001 and Decision No.110/2001/QD-BNN of
November 23, 2001 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall
not be entitled to working trip allowances under current regulations.
3. Payment of accommodation
rents at working places:
The project management board
members sent on working missions shall have their accommodation rents at
working places paid. The payment shall be made according to actual invoices but
must not exceed the following levels:
(a) In the centrally-run cities:
VND 110,000/day/person.
(b) In other provinces and
centrally-run cities: VND 70,000/day/person.
In cases where a project
management board member made a working trip alone or there’s an odd member in a
working delegation, who is of different sex, hence a room must be rented for
him-/herself, the payment shall be made not in excess of the following levels:
(c) In the centrally-run cities:
VND 180,000/day/person.
(d) In provinces and other
cities: VND 110,000/day/person.
(e) In cases where officials
during their working trips have to stay in rural areas where guest houses or
hostels are not available, the package payment level of VND 30,000/person/day
shall apply but the certification of the managing agencies or administrations
of the localities where they go to work is required.
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4. Payment of travelling
expenses: shall comply with the provisions of the Finance Ministry’s Circular
No.94/1998/TT-BTC. All payments must be evidenced with tickets or lawful and
valid vouchers.
- In special cases where the
project officials or invitees need to travel by air, the project managers shall
decide to permit them to travel with the project’s expenditure sources.
- In case of hiring transport
means (special) for travelling, the payment shall be made only with the project
managers’ consent.
- For routes where mass transit
is unavailable, thereby the project officials have to use their own means of
transport or hire motorbikes, the payment shall be made according to guiding
documents of the provincial/municipal Communication and Public Works Service
and Finance and Pricing Service in each locality.
- The regular itinerant work
allowances shall be paid in package to project officials who have to travel
regularly and transact with relevant agencies (treasuries, departments,
institutes, provincial/municipal services, branches...) and not exceed VND
100,000/person/month according to Item d on the contents of working trip
allowances of the Finance Ministry’s Circular No.94/1998/TT-BTC of June 30,
1998.
- Officials of the project
management boards must not travel regularly by taxis on routes where mass
transit is available.
D. INTERPRETATION
AND TRANSLATION EXPENSES
1. Interpretation:
+ Ordinary interpretation: not
exceeding VND 70,000/hour or VND 560,000/day/person for 8 working hours.
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Interpreters on field trips
shall also enjoy working trip allowances according to the provisions in Section
C- Working mission and field-trip allowances.
2. Translation expenses:
2.1. Translation from foreign
languages into Vietnamese:
+ Maximum level: VND 35,000/
300-word page
2.2. Translation from Vietnamese
into foreign languages:
+ Maximum level: VND
40,000/300-word page.
The norms mentioned at Points 1
and 2, Section D shall only apply in case of necessity where the project management
boards have to hire interpreters/translators and not apply to
interpreters/translators being officials of the project management boards.
E. DOMESTIC
VISIT AND SURVEY EXPENSES
Participants and invitees shall
enjoy:
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- Accommodation expenses: to be
paid according to Point 3, Section C.
- Travelling expenses: to be
paid according to the provisions in Section C; in case of car renting, the
expenses therefor shall be paid in package under contracts.
(The visit and survey programs
must be included in the already approved plans).
F. OVERSEAS
RESEARCH, STUDY AND SURVEY EXPENSES
All overseas research, survey
and study tours must be approved beforehand by leaders of the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development:
1. Expenses for training
programs: The training costs (if any) must be approved by the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development.
2. Allowances:
The subsistence allowances as
well as meal, accommodation and travelling expenses... shall comply with the
Finance Ministry’s Circular No.45/1999/TT-BTC of May 4, 1999 and Circular
No.108/1999/TT-BTC of September 4, 1999 prescribing the working trip allowances
for officials and public employees on short-term working missions overseas.
3. Settlement for overseas working
trips:
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Basing themselves on the
above-mentioned spending norms, the project managers should balance the
expenditures so that they shall not exceed the approved budget limits and
should work out more specific regulations for the efficient use of those norms,
thereby accelerating the project’s activities.
Expenses arising before the
promulgation of this guidance shall be settled under the provisions of the
Finance Ministry’s Decision No.112/2001/QD-BTC of November 9, 2001.
Should any problem arise in the
course of implementation it should be reported to the Central Project
Administration Board for timely settlement.
FOR THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE
AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
VICE MINISTER
Nguyen Van Dang