Decision No. 152/1999/QD-TTg ratifying the strategy for management of solid waste in Vietnamese cities and industrial parks till the year 2020

42 OFFICIAL GAZETTE No. 31 (22-8-1999) DECISION No. 152/1999/QD-TTg OF JULY 10, 1999 RATIFYING THE STRATEGY FOR MANAGEMENT OF SOLID WASTE IN VIETNAMESE CITIES AND INDUSTRIAL PARKS TILL THE YEAR 2020 THE PRIME MINISTER Pursuant to the Lem· on Organization of !he Government o/Septemher 30, 1992: Pursuant to the Lall' on !~nvironmenta/ Protection, passed on Decemher 27, 1993 hy the L'(1h National .lvsemhlv and made public under the State President '.y Order No. 29/L-CTN o/Januarv l 0, l 99./: .1t the proposal of the J\finister of Construction in Report No. CNYTTr-BXD of Fehruary 23, 1999, DECIDES: Article 1.- To ratify the Strategy for management of solid waste in Vietnmnese 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 enyironmental pollution and protect the environment thus ensuring the achievement of target of sustainable development in the period of national industrialization and modernization. 1. Immediate-future objectives (till the }Car 2005): By that time. all the provinces and centrally-nm 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 teclmology(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 teclmology(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 vvaste in cities and industrial parks on the principle of harmonizing the legislation, development investment, technical assistance, as well as inspection and superv1s10n. II. MAJOR SOLUTIONS 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 ha1ardons 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 capabilit}: To conduct widespread and regular propaganda on the mass media, guide the public opinion in promoting and encouraging the environmental protection activitic-s; 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 No. 31 (22-8-1999) OFFICIAL GAZETTE 43 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. 3. Renewal of the financial policy and creation of capital sources: 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 arc 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 arc effectively operating in the collection, transportation and/or treatment of solid waste: To encourage all economic sectors to invest in the field of solid waste management: to cquitizc State enterprises with ineffective operations in this field: to study the establishment of companies following the operation model of public-utility State enterprises. 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 \vaste 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 44 OFFICIAL GAZETTE No. 31 (22-8-1999) Committees of the provinces and centrally-nm cities shall have to implement this Decision. For the Prime Minister Depu(v Prime Minister NGO XUAN LOC DECISION No. 153/1999/QD-TTg OF JULY 15, 1999 ON A NUMBER OF SALT DEVELOPMENT POLICIES THE PRIME MINISTER Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government ofSeptemher 30, 1992; At the proposal of the Jfinister a/Agriculture and Rural Development, DECIDES: Article 1.- Salt including common salt (used as materials for production ofki tchen 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: Bringing into full play the advantages of each region, linking kitchen salt-processing establishments to material salt-producing areas: Investing in installation of salt washing chains at industrial salt production areas in order to raise the salt quality; making use and process sah 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 haye to propose to the Prime Minister the support measures to stabilize the salt production and the salt makers· liYelihood: d) The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall assume the prime responsibility and coordinate ·with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural DeYelopment and the National Reserve Department in determining the annual national salt reserves and formulating the mechanism for management of national salt reseITes, then proposing it to the Prime Minister for decision. 2. Regarding the investment and credit a) The State budget capital invested in the construction of infrastructure in salt production regions, including: Dikes, sewers, vital irrigation projects and traffic roads, as well as investment in the construction of research or technology transfer institutions. Supports No. 31 (22-8-1999) OFFICIAL GAZETTE -15 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. 3. Regarding the scientific and technological matters All organizations and individuals arc encouraged to conduct scientific research and transfer technologies to the salt production and proccssi ng. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Develop ment 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 Develop ment shall work out plans for training of mana gcrial, 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 folJowing 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 0'¼,. 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 Develop ment 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. Article 3.- The ministers, the heads of the ministcrial-lewl 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. For the Prime Minister Deputy Prime Minister NGUYEN CONG TAJ\