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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.
259/QD-TTg
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Hanoi,
March 04, 2008
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DECISION
APPROVING THE NATIONAL SCHEME ON ENHANCED ASSURANCE OF
TRAFFIC ORDER AND SAFETY UP TO 2010
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25,
2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the Government’s Resolution No. 32/2007/NQ-CP dated June 29, 2007, on
a number of urgent measures to curb traffic accidents and congestions;
At the proposal of the Minister of Transport,
DECIDES:
Article 1. -
To approve the scheme on enhanced assurance of traffic order and safety up to
2010 (below referred to as the scheme for short), with the following principal
contents:
1. Objectives
a/ To improve knowledge and
create a sense of voluntary law observance of persons who join in traffic,
first of all drivers of means of transport.
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c/ To perfect the system of
legal documents on traffic order and safety; to further improve the mechanism
and organization of the apparatus in charge of traffic safety management from
the central to grassroots level;
d/ To strive for the target that
the number of human deaths caused by traffic accidents will be reduced by 5-7%
year on year, and the average number of human deaths per 10,000 road motor
vehicles will be reduced from 6.5 to 4.5 by 2010.
2. Guidelines
a/ The work of enhancing the
assurance of traffic order and safety must be conducted in a regular and
constant manner, with specified focuses and priorities, and suitable to
practical conditions and traffic activities of branches and localities.
b/ The work of assuring traffic
safety must be conducted in a coordinated, step-by-step, constant, resolute,
persistent, long-term and people-centered manner so as to achieve sustainable
results.
c/ The work of assuring traffic
safety rests with all the people and the entire society, first of all
functional state agencies and persons joining in traffic.
3. Tasks
a/ The scheme's tasks are
divided into the following groups:
- Perfecting law, mechanisms and
policies to enhance assurance of traffic order and safety;
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- Management of traffic
infrastructure;
- Management of means of
transport;
- Training and management of
vehicle
- Exploitation and organization
of communications and transport;
- Measures to enforce the law on
traffic safety;
- Conducting the dissemination,
propaganda and education of law on traffic order and safety;
- Educating about traffic safety
at schools;
- Taking measures to minimize
damage caused by traffic accidents.
b/ The list of projects,
agencies assuming the prime responsibility for projects, estimated funds,
durations of implementation and order of priority of projects are specified in
the list of tasks of the scheme on enhanced assurance of traffic order and
safety up to 2010 promulgated together with this Decision.
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4. Major solutions to implement
the scheme
a/ Raising public awareness of
traffic order and safety; perfecting legal document on traffic safety;
mobilizing experts from concerned ministries, branches and research institutes
to work out specific and timely plans for the scheme's implementation.
b/ Strengthening the
organization and raising the capacity of state management of traffic of the
Ministry of Transport and provincial/municipal Transport Services and
Communications and Public Works Services; strengthening the National Committee
for Traffic Safety and local traffic safety boards in the direction of raising
responsibilities of and delegating of and delegating more power to these
organizations in coordination work, and improving their professionalism.
c/ Ensuring financial resources
for the scheme's implementation from the state budget, disbursed foreign loans
and other contributions of domestic and foreign organizations and individuals
of all economic sectors.
d/ Ensuring the work of
inspection, examination, supervision and periodical evaluation of the
fulfillment of the scheme's objectives and tasks.
Article 2. -
Organization of implementation
The National Committee for
traffic Safety is an agency responsible for urging and inspecting the
implementation of this scheme. Ministries, branches, provinces and centrally
run cities are primarily responsible for performing relevant tasks. Their major
tasks are specified as follows:
1. The National Committee for
Traffic Safety shall
Coordinate with the Ministry of
Home Affairs in working out in the second quarter of 2008 a plan to strengthen
the National Committee for Traffic Safety and local traffic safety boards in
the direction of raising their responsibilities and delegating them more powers
for organizing coordination work and improving their professionalism.
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Assume the prime responsibility
for, and coordinate with the National Committee for Traffic Safety in,
submitting in the third quarter of 2008 to the government for approval a plan
to strengthen the National Committee for Traffic Safety and local traffic
safety boards.
3. The Ministry of Transport
shall:
a/ Assume the prime
responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry
of Justice and concerned agencies in amending and supplementing existing legal
documents on traffic safety and elaborating new ones and submitting them to the
Government for approval from 2008.
b/ Work out and submit to the
Government a plan to strengthen the organization and raise the capacity of
state management of traffic safety of the Ministry of Transport, and
provincial/municipal Transport Services and Communication and Public Works
Services in 2008.
c/ Assume the prime
responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and
Social Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security in, raising the quality of
training and testing of drivers for the grant of driver licenses and
professional qualification certificates.
d/ Elaborate and implement a
scheme on increase of the state payroll and reinforcement of equipment for the
transport inspection force, and submit it to the Government in the first
quarter of 2008.
e/ Conduct on an annual basis
propaganda to raise the sense of observance of the law on maritime navigation
safety; provide maritime assistance and assure maritime navigation safety.
f/ Implement three schemes on
enhancement of management of registry and inspection for improving the quality,
technical safety and environmental protection of road, waterway and railway
motor vehicles from 2008 to 2010.
4. The Ministry of Public
Security shall:
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b/ Coordinate with the Ministry
of Transport and the Ministry of Justice in promulgating regulations on
registration of, and grant of number plates for, road motor vehicles of war
invalids and handicapped people; withdraw registered number plates of means of
transport with expired use duration.
5. The Ministry of Education and
Training shall:
a/ Assume the prime
responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Transport and the
Ministry of Public Security in, studying the increase of the time volume for and
diversification of forms of education of the law on safety order and safety at
all educational levels.
b/ Supply teaching aids in 2008.
c/ Raise the capacity of
managerial cadres and teachers of traffic safety at schools in 2008.
d/ Compile, amend and supplement
teaching materials in 2008.
6. The Ministry of Information
and Communication shall:
a/ Assume the prime
responsibility for elaborating and implementing a scheme on traffic safety
propaganda on the mass media and through grassroots information institutions up
to 2010.
b/ Assume the prime
responsibility for, and coordinate with the National Committee for Traffic
Safety, the Ministry of Transport and concerned agencies in, intensifying the
dissemination, popularization and education of the law on traffic order and
safety from 2008.
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a/ Promulgate in 2008 a
regulation on a system of stations providing fist aid to traffic accident
victims on national highways.
b/ Organize from 2008 the provision
of first aid training to health workers at traffic accident first-aid stations.
c/ Raise the capacity of the
system of first-aid stations from 2008.
d/ Supplement and amend in 2008
regulations on health standards for motor vehicle drivers.
e/ Popularize and propagate from
2008 about health consequences, illness burdens and injuries caused by traffic
accidents in the community.
8. The Ministry of Finance
shall:
a/ Ensure funds for the
implementation of solutions set forth in the scheme.
b/ Study amendments and
supplements to regulations on levels of premiums of compulsory insurance for
civil liability of motor vehicle owners, and formulate policies on assistance
for the development of mass transit by bus; and guide the allocation and use of
funds for traffic safety assessment.
9. The Ministry of Planning and
Investment shall coordinate with the Ministry of Finance in guiding the order
and procedures for formulation, submission for approval and implementation of
projects under this scheme.
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11. Socio-political
organizations
The Vietnam Fatherland Front,
the Vietnam Women's Union, the Vietnam War Veterans’ Association, the Central
Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Youth Union, etc., shall actively participate in
propagating and educating about the sense of observance of the law on traffic
order and safety among their members.
Article 3.
- This
Decision takes effect on the date of its signing.
Article 4.
- Ministers,
heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies and
presidents of provincial/municipal People’s Committees shall implement this
Decision.
FOR
THE PRIME MINISTER
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
Hoang Trung Hai
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LIST OF PROJECTS
(Attached
to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 259/QD-TTg dated March 4, 2008)
Unit
of calculation: VND million
No
Lists
Agencies in charge
Estimated funds
I
Dissemination, propaganda and education
of the law on traffic order and safety
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1
Propaganda of traffic safety
on the mass media and through grassroots culture and information institutions
up to 2010
Ministry of Information and
Communication (MIC)
7,000
2
Propaganda and education of
vehicle drivers, especially passenger automobile drivers, for raising their
sense of responsibility and professional ethics
Ministry of Transport (MT)
5,000
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Law dissemination and
propaganda in the transport sector
MT
2,500
4
Dissemination and propaganda
of bad health consequences, illness burdens and injuries caused by traffic
accidents among the people
Ministry of Health (MH)
Under separate projects
5
Intensification of traffic safety
education at schools
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62,185
II
Enforcement of the law on
assurance of traffic order and safety and raising of the capacity of traffic
police and inspectorate
1
Equipping of patrol police
forces that control waterway navigation order with vessels, technical
equipment, weapons and support tools
Ministry of Public Security
(MPS)
1,500,000
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Building of waterway police
offices for patrol and control of public traffic order
MPS
150,000
3
Supplement of vehicles,
support tools and technical equipment for traffic police forces that patrol,
control and handle violations of road traffic order and safety-phase 2
MPS
800,000
4
Renovation and building of road
traffic police offices for patrol, control and handling of violations of road
traffic order and safety
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250,000
5
Reinforcement and
modernization of information and command center for the road traffic police force
at the Road and Railway Traffic Police Department, and in Hanoi and Ho Chi
Minh City
MPS
100,000
6
Installation of a system for
supervising and handling violations of road traffic order and safety along
major national highways
MPS
500,000
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Organization of patrol,
control and handling of violations of traffic order and safety on national
highway 1A, Hanoi-Lang Son section
MPS
10,000
8
Equipping of the order police
force that patrols and controls public traffic order with vehicles, technical
equipment, weapons and support tools
MPS
550,000
9
Building of order police
offices for patrol and control of public traffic order
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140,000
10
Increase of state payroll and reinforcement
of equipment and facilities for the transport inspectorate
MT
1,000,000
11
Building of a professional
secondary school for traffic policemen (both road and railway traffic police
forces)
MPS
350,000
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Improvement of safety of
transport infrastructure
1
Project on improvement of
safety of cross-river passenger wharves
MT
900,000
2
Project on restoration of
order in the inland waterway traffic safety corridor
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500,000
3
Improvement of safety of
maritime infrastructure; intensification of maritime information
MT
5,000
IV
Improvement of quality and
technical safety of means of transport
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A number of measures to enhance
the management of registry and inspection in order to improve the quality,
technical safety and environmental protection of means of waterway transport
MT
12,100
2
A number of measures to enhance
the management of inspection of road motor vehicles joining in traffic in
order to improve their quality, technical safety and environmental protection
MT
80,000
3
A number of measures to
enhance the management of inspection of means of railway transport joining in
traffic in order to improve their quality, technical safety and environmental
protection
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2,200
V
Vehicle drivers
1
Project on raising the capacity
of establishment training road motor vehicle drivers and grant of driver
licenses
MT
20,000
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Management of transport
exploitation and organization
1
Improvement of operation
safety of maritime supporting and towing vessels
MT
500
2
Improvement of safety of
marine product exploitation and fishing
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5,000
VII
Mitigation of damage caused by
traffic accidents
1
Elaboration of regulations on a
system of stations providing first aid to traffic accident victims on
national highways
MH
Under separate projects
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Raising of the capacity of the
system of traffic accident first-aid stations
MH
Under separate projects
3
First aid training for health
workers working in traffic accident first-aid stations
MH
Under separate projects
4
Raising of the marine search
and rescue capacity
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1,500
Total
6,952,985