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THE
GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence- Freedom- Happiness
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No.256/2003/QD-TTg
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Hanoi,
December 2 , 2003
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DECISION
APPROVING THE NATIONAL STRATEGY ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
TILL 2010 AND ORIENTATIONS TOWARDS 2020
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on
Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the Law on Environmental Protection dated December 27, 1993;
At the proposals of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment,
DECIDES:
Article 1. To approve
the National Strategy on Environmental Protection till 2010 and orientations
towards 2020 with the following major contents:
1. Viewpoints:
- The strategy on environmental protection is an
integral part of the Strategy on socio-economic development and an important
base for the national sustainable development. Economic development must be
closely and harmoniously combined with social development and environmental
protection. Investment in environmental protection means investment in
sustainable development.
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- Environmental protection must be based on the
enhancement of the State management, institutions and laws, in parallel with
the raising of the awareness of, and sense of responsibility for, environmental
protection of all people and the entire society.
- Environmental protection is a regular and
long-term task. Prevention is considered a main task, which is combined with
pollution treatment and control, as well as the overcoming of deterioration and
the improvement of environment quality; to carry out jobs with attention being
paid to key points; and to consider science and technology as effective tools
in environmental protection.
- As environmental protection is of national,
regional and global magnitude, it is, therefore, necessary to combine the
promotion of internal strengths with the enhancement of international
cooperation in environmental protection and sustainable development.
2. Major orientations towards
2020:
a) To basically check in increasing pollution
rate, overcome deterioration and raise the environment quality, thus ensuring
the national sustainable development; to ensure that all people shall live in
the environment of good quality regarding air, land, water, landscape and other
natural environmental elements which are up to standards prescribed by the
State.
b) To strive to reach some following major
norms:
- 80% of the production and/or business
establishments shall be granted the certificate of environmental standards or
ISO 14001 certificate.
- 100% of the urban centers, industrial parks
and export-processing zones shall have concentrated waste water-treating
systems up to environmental standards.
- To form and develop the waste-recycling
industry, striving for the target that 30% of gathered waste shall be recycled.
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- To increase the forest coverage to 48% of the
total land area of the country.
- 100% of the export products and goods and 50%
of the domestically consumed goods shall be stuck with environmental labels
according to ISO 14021 standard.
3. Objectives till 2010:
3.1. Overall objectives:
To check the increasing pollution rate, overcome
the deterioration situation and improve the environment quality; to basically
settle the situation of environmental deterioration in industrial parks and
populous quarters in big cities and some rural areas; to redress and treat
environmental pollution on rivers, lakes, ponds and canals. To raise the
capacity of preventing and restricting adverse impacts of natural disasters as
well as unfavorable climatic changes on the environment; to effectively cope
with, and overcome environmental pollution incidents caused by natural
disasters. To rationally exploit and use natural resources, ensure ecological
balance at a high level, conserve the nature and preserve the bio-diversity. To
take initiative in implementing and satisfying environmental requirements in
international economic integration, to restrict adverse impacts of the
globalization process on domestic environment, in order to boost economic
growth, raise the quality of people's life and ensure the country's sustainable
development.
3.2. Specific objectives:
a) To check the increasing pollution rate:
- 100% of the newly-built production
establishments must apply clean technologies or be equipped with
pollution-reducing and waste-treating devices, which are up to environmental
standards.
- 50% of the production and/or business
establishments shall be granted the certificate of environmental standards or
ISO 14001 certificate.
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- 40% of the urban centers and 70% of the
industrial parks and export-processing zones shall have concentrated waste
water-treating systems, which are up to environmental standards, 90% of the
solid waste from daily-life, industrial and service activities shall be
gathered while 60% of the hazardous waste and 100% of hospitals' waste shall be
treated.
- To closely control chemical safety, especially
chemicals of high toxicity; to minimize the production and use of plant
protection drugs which cause environmental pollution; and to enhance the application
of integrated pest management measures.
- To thoroughly handle establishments which
cause serious environmental pollution according to the Prime Minister's
Decision No. 64/2003/QD-TTg dated April 22, 2003.
b) To improve the environment quality:
- To basically complete the renovation and
upgrading of rainwater and waste water drainage systems in urban centers and
industrial parks. To strive for the target that 40% of urban centers shall have
separate waste water drainage and treatment systems in strict compliance with
prescribed standards.
- To renovate 50% of the seriously deteriorated
canals, lakes and river sections flowing through urban centers.
- To basically handle hot spots of dioxin
contamination.
- 95% of the urban population and 85% of the
rural population shall have access to hygienic daily-life water.
- 90% of streets shall be planted with green
trees; the urban land area for green parks shall be double the 2000's figure.
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- To raise the quality of water in river basins
to the standards of water used for agriculture and raising of some aquatic
animals.
c) To ensure ecological balance at a high level:
- To restore 50% of the mineral-exploiting areas
and 40% of the seriously deteriorated ecological systems.
- To raise the forest coverage to 43% of the
total land area, to restore 50% of the deteriorated head-water forests and
raise the quality of forests; to accelerate the scattered afforestation among
people.
- To increase the percentage of used clean
energy to 5% of the total energy volume annually consumed.
- To increase the total acreage of nature
conservation zones by 1.5 times over the current figure, especially sea and
submerged-land conservation zones.
- To restore the acreage of submerged forests to
80% of 1990's level.
d) To satisfy environmental requirements for
international economic integration and restrict the negative impacts of the
globalization process:
- 100% of the enterprises having export products
shall apply the environmental management system according to ISO 14001.
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- To completely stop the import of hazardous
waste.
4. Basic tasks and solutions:
4.1. Basic tasks:
a) To prevent and control pollution:
- To synchronously apply measures to prevent
environmental pollution.
- To formulate plans on pollution control of
national, branch and local levels in order to check, handle and control sources
causing environmental pollution and deterioration throughout the country as
well as in each branch and locality.
- To apply technologies which are
environmentally clean and friendly.
- To formulate and promulgate the national and
branch environmental standards.
- To raise the capacity and efficiency of waste
management activities.
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- To thoroughly handle establishments which
cause serious environmental pollution according to the Prime Minister's
Decision No. 64/2003/QD-TTg dated April 22, 2003.
- To implement projects on overcoming and
rehabilitating seriously deteriorated and polluted sites, areas and regions.
- To overcome the consequences of environmental
deterioration caused by toxic chemicals used in the former war.
- To cope with environmental incidents and
quickly overcome environmental pollution consequences.
c) To protect and sustainably exploit natural
resources:
- To rationally exploit, economically,
efficiently and sustainably use land and mineral resources.
- To rationally exploit, protect and develop the
water resource.
- To protect the air resource.
d) To protect and improve the environment in key
areas:
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- Sea, coastal areas and off-shore islands.
- River basins and submerged land areas.
- Rural and mountainous areas.
- Natural heritages and cultural heritages.
e) To conserve nature and bio-diversity:
- To protect and develop nature conservation
zones and national gardens.
- To develop forests and raise the greenery
acreage.
- To protect bio-diversity.
4.2. Implementation solutions:
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b) To enhance the State management, institutions
and laws on environmental protection.
c) To step up the application of economic tools
to environmental management.
d) To harmonize the relationship between
economic development and social progress and justice as well as environmental
protection.
e) To enhance and diversify investment in
environmental protection.
f) To enhance the capacity of scientific
research and technological development in environmental protection.
g) To boost the socialization of environmental
protection activities.
h) To enhance international cooperation on
environmental protection.
5. To approve in principle 36
national priority programs, plans, schemes and projects for the realization of
major contents of the Strategy (detailed appendix enclosed herewith)
Article 2. Organization
of the implementation of the Strategy:
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2. The Ministry of Planning and Investment and
the Ministry of Finance shall apportion and allocate capital from the State
budget and other sources for the efficient realization of the contents of the
Strategy.
3. The ministries, branches and localities
shall, according to their respective functions and tasks, organize the
implementation of the Strategy's contents related to their branches and
localities; and to formulate and implement their own environmental protection
strategies.
Article 3. This Decision
takes effect 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette.
The ministers, the heads of the
ministerial-level agencies, the heads of agencies attached to the Government
and the presidents of the provincial/municipal People's Committees shall have
to implement this Decision.
FOR THE
PRIME MINISTER
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
Nguyen Tan Dung
APPENDIX
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1. The project on planting five million hectares
of forests (to be implemented under the Resolution of the second session of the
Xth National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on the
project on planting five million hectares of forests and the Prime Minister's
Decision No. 661/QD-TTg dated July 29, 1998 on the objectives and tasks of,
policies for, as well as implementation of, the project on planting five
million hectares of forests).
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
2. The plan for thoroughly handling
establishments which cause serious environmental pollution (to be implemented
according to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 64/2003/QD-TTg dated April 22,
2003 approving the plan for thoroughly handling establishments which cause
serious environmental pollution).
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
3. The program for overcoming the consequences
of toxic chemicals used by the US during the Vietnam war (to be implemented
according to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 33/1999/QD-TTg dated March 31,
1999 on the establishment of the Steering Committee for overcoming the
consequences of toxic chemicals used by the US during the Vietnam war).
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
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- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned ministries,
branches and localities.
5. The national target program on rural clean
water and environmental sanitation (to be implemented according to the Prime
Minister's Decision No. 237/1998/QD-TTg dated December 3, 1998 of approving the
national target program on rural clean water and environmental sanitation).
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
6. The program on treatment of hazardous waste.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
7. The program on treatment of hospitals' waste.
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- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
8. The program for renovating seriously-polluted
and/or-deteriorated canals, rivers and lakes in urban areas.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of
Construction.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
9. The program for increasing the capacity of
State management over environmental protection from the central to grassroots
levels.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
10. The program for upgrading urban water
drainage systems and building concentrated waste water-treating systems.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of
Construction
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11. The program for enhancing the management,
protection and development of nature conservation zones (to be implemented
according to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 192/2003/QD-TTg dated September
17, 2003 approving the Strategy on management of Vietnam's conservation zone
system till 2010).
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development.
- Coordinating agencies: The Ministry of Aquatic
Resources, concerned ministries, branches and localities.
12. The program for perfecting and raising the
effect of the system of legislation on environmental protection.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned ministries,
branches and localities.
13. The program for researching into,
formulating and applying economic tools to environmental management.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned ministries,
branches and localities.
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- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
15. The program for protecting the environment
in Nhue river and Day river basins.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
16. The program for protecting the environment
in Saigon-Dong Nai river basin.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
17. The national plan on coping with oil-spills
in the 2001-2010 period (to be implemented according to the Prime Minister's
Decision No. 129/2001/QD-TTg dated August 29, 2001 approving the national plan
on coping with oil-spills in the 2001-2010 period).
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- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
18. The program for protecting submerged-land
areas of national and international importance.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
19. The scheme on incorporating environmental
protection contents into the national education system (to be implemented
according to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 1363/QD-TTg dated October 17,
2001 approving the scheme on incorporating environmental protection contents
into the national education system).
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Education
and Training.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
20. The program for integrating environmental
elements into socio-economic development plannings and plans.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Planning
and Investment.
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21. The program on the entire people's
participation in environmental protection.
- Sponsoring agency: Vietnam Fatherland Front.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
22. The program for raising the capacity and activities
of managing solid waste in urban centers and industrial parks.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of
Construction.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
23. The program for improving air quality in
urban centers.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of
Communications and Transport.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
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- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
25. The program for building concentrated waste
water-treating systems up to environmental standards in all industrial parks.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Industry.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
26. The program for enhancing the role of mass
media in raising the awareness of environmental protection.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Culture and
Information.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
27. The program for socialization of the
environmental protection work.
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- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
28. The program on application of
environmentally clean and friendly production technologies.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Industry.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
29. The program for supporting enterprises in
environmental protection and international economic integration.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Trade.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
30. The program for formulating and implementing
the roadmap for technological renovation along the environmentally friendly
direction.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Science and
Technology.
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31. The program for rehabilitating the
environment on mineral-exploiting areas.
- Sponsoring agency: Ministry of Industry.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
32. The program for protecting and developing
natural heritages and cultural heritages.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Culture and
Information.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
33. The program for formulating and popularizing
models of ecological-economic villages.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
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. - Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
35. The program for enhancing the capacity of
scientific research and technological development in service of environmental
protection.
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Science and
Technology.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.
36. The program for raising the capacity of environmental
observation
- Sponsoring agency: The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment.
- Coordinating agencies: The concerned
ministries, branches and localities.