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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:
152/1999/QD-TTg
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Hanoi, July 10, 1999
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DECISION
RATIFYING THE STRATEGY FOR MANAGEMENT OF
SOLID WASTE IN VIETNAMESE CITIES AND INDUSTRIAL PARKS TILL THE YEAR 2020
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to the Law on Environmental Protection, passed on December 27, 1993 by
the IXth National Assembly and made public under the State President’s
Order No. 29/L-CTN of January 10, 1994;
At the proposal of the Minister of Construction in Report No. 08/TTr-BXD of
February 23, 1999,
DECIDES:
Article
1.- To ratify the Strategy for management of solid waste in
Vietnamese cities and industrial parks till the year 2020 with the following
principal contents:
I. OBJECTIVES
To step by step form a synchronous system for
management of solid waste in cities and industrial parks in order to check the
environmental pollution and protect the environment, thus ensuring the
achievement of target of sustainable development in the period of national
industrialization and modernization.
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- By that time, all the provinces and
centrally-run cities shall complete the planning for management and treatment
of solid waste in cities and industrial parks, with priority being given to the
planning of hygienic solid waste burial sites; close solid waste burial sites
which are not hygienic; and build a number of establishments for processing
solid waste into fertilizer when conditions permit;
- To sort out hazardous waste right from their
sources; to initially sort out solid waste from daily life in cities;
- To collect, transport and treat 75-90% of the
total volume of discharged solid waste, depending on each type of cities and
industrial parks;
- To thoroughly treat hazardous medical solid
waste in big cities with advanced incineration technology(ies); to treat
hazardous industrial solid waste by appropriate method(s);
2. Long-term objectives (till the year 2020):
- To collect, transport and treat 80-95% of the
total volume of solid waste discharged in cities and industrial parks;
- To collect and thoroughly treat hazardous
medical solid waste in cities with advanced technology(ies);
- To apply the measures to reclaim and recycle
solid waste; to give priority to the investment in construction of two centers
for treatment of hazardous industrial solid waste in two key economic regions
in the North and the South;
- To improve the management of solid waste in
cities and industrial parks on the principle of harmonizing the legislation,
development investment, technical assistance, as well as inspection and
supervision.
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1.
Improvement of the legal framework:
- To revise and synchronously promulgate
documents guiding the legislation on solid waste management, and to raise the
enforcement effect of the Law on Environmental Protection;
- To promulgate the "Regulation on solid
waste management" and the "Regulation on hazardous waste
management", which concretize the implementation of provisions on solid
waste management in the Law on Environmental Protection;
- To draw up the planning of national network of
establishments for treatment of medical solid waste and hazardous solid waste
discharged from industrial parks, which shall serve as basis for the
formulation and ratification of investment projects with a view to avoiding
investment overlapping, coincidence and waste in investment;
- To promulgate the designing standards of
hygienic solid waste burial sites; incorporate the quotas of land to be used
for solid waste treatment into the urban planning norms.
2.
Raising of the communal awareness and training capability:
- To conduct widespread and regular propaganda
on the mass media, guide the public opinion in promoting and encouraging the
environmental protection activities; to carry out the propaganda and education
through the regular operations of the mass organizations at grassroots levels,
thus creating emulation movement for building new way of life at residential
quarters in cities and industrial parks; to publish and disseminate documents
propagating and instructing the environmental protection in general and solid
waste management in particular, suitable to each target subject and each
locality;
- To include the environmental education
curriculum into education programs of the pre-school, general and tertiary
education and other training and professional foster courses of the political
and social organizations and occupational societies;
- To enhance the capability of schools and
institutions for training out specialists in the domain of solid waste
management.
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- The Ministry of Construction shall assume the
prime responsibility and coordinate with the concerned ministries and branches
in studying and promulgating the bracket of environmental sanitation fees and
price bracket applicable to contracts for collection, transportation and
treatment of solid waste in each type of cities and industrial parks on the
following principle: For the immediate future, to ensure enough expenses for
operation of solid waste collection, transportation and treatment apparatus,
then proceed to collect more to partially refund the State�s
investment capital; the localities shall base themselves on these brackets to
set out specific fee levels suitable to their respective cities.
- Local administrations of all levels shall seek
measures for correct and full collection of budget revenues including taxes and
environmental sanitation fee within the scope of competence assigned to them.
Organizations and individuals shall have to pay the fee for collection and
treatment of solid waste;
- To adopt tax, credit and land use mechanisms
and preferential policies in order to mobilize potential resources from the
population and all economic sectors for investment in the field of
environmental protection in general and solid waste management in particular;
- To attract external resources;
- To adopt preferential policies and plans for
rational distribution of budget capital, ODA capital and long-term loans with
preferential interest rates for investment in procurement of facilities and
equipment and construction of solid waste treatment centers; to render loan
supports for investment in solid waste management projects;
- To encourage all economic sectors to
participate in the solid waste management and apply clean and low-waste
production technologies through preferential policies provided for by the Law
on Domestic Investment Promotion (amended);
- The State encourages the establishments
producing goods (especially consumer goods in cities) to conduct research aimed
to minimize solid waste after such goods are consumed, such as: rational use of
input materials, proper alterations in products’ formulas,
reduction of packing materials, change in consuming habit, etc.
4.
Improvement of the model for solid waste management organization:
- To consolidate and promote the State
enterprises that are effectively operating in the collection, transportation
and/or treatment of solid waste;
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5.
Modernization of technologies and manufacture of equipment and materials:
- To apply advanced technologies suitable to
Vietnam’s conditions in processes of recycle, reuse or
treatment of solid waste;
- To import, then proceed to manufacture at home
equipment for collection, transportation and treatment of solid waste;
- To study and apply norms and standards in the
following processes: selection of technologies for, designing, construction and
operation of hygienic waste burial sites; and at the same time to invest in the
construction of projects for treatment of hazardous solid waste in
compatibility with advanced standards and technologies;
- To apply technologies for incineration of
medical solid waste and hazardous industrial solid waste.
6.
Promotion of international cooperation and relations:
To take advantage of all sources of aids from
foreign governments and non-governmental organizations and other sources of international
assistance in training, experience learning, technology transfer, technical and
financial supports in the field of solid waste management.
Article 2.- To assign the Ministry of Construction and the
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment to coordinate with the Ministry
of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry,
the Ministry of Health and the concerned ministries and branches in
concretizing the contents of the Strategy for management of solid waste in cities
and industrial parks till the year 2020; organizing the realization of the
Strategy; drawing up the planning as well as short-term and long-term plans for
the effective implementation thereof.
Article 3.- This Decision takes effect 15 days after its
signing. The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads
of the agencies attached to the Government and the presidents of the People’s
Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to implement
this Decision.
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FOR THE PRIME MINISTER
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
Ngo Xuan Loc