Directive No. 10/1998/CT-TTg on stepping up and completing the assignment of land and the granting of agricultural land tenure certificates

1. The presidents of the People's Committees of the provinces and cities directly under the Central Government shall coordinate with the National Administration of Land, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in directing the branches and levels within the provinces to: a/ Examine and evaluate the achieved results, clearly determine the volume of work that remain to be done, clearly determine the policies, solutions and plans for organizing simultaneously the assignment of agricultural land and the granting of agricultural land use right certificates on a wide scale so as to complete this task according to the following schedule: -The provinces in the North Vietnam delta and the Mekong River delta, the plain districts of the midland provinces in North Vietnam, of northern and southern Central Vietnam and eastern South Vietnam must basically complete this task in 1998. - The mountainous provinces in North Vietnam and the Central Highlands, the mountainous districts of the midland provinces in North Vietnam, northern and southern Central Vietnam and eastern South Vietnam DIRECTIVE No.10/1998/CT-TTg OF must basically complete this task in 1999. FEBRUARY 20, 1998 ON STEPPING UP b/ Encourage farmers' households to swap land AND COMPLETING THE ASSIGNMENT among themselves so as to overcome the existing state OF LAND AND GRANTING OF of land scatteredness and scantiness right in the CERTIFICATES OF THE RIGHT TO USE process of implementing the land assignment plan No.9(31-3-1998) OFFICIALGAZETIE 13 under Decree No. 64-CP as well as in the process of guidance on sources and modes of funding for the granting agricultural land use right certificates. The localities to perform this task. People's Committees 3t v:irious levels shall have to direct, propagate, mobilize and provide detailed 4. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural guidance for farmers' households to exchange land Development shall have to coordinate with the National among themselves. Administration of Land in supervising and urging the provinces and cities to step up and complete the cl Concentrate efforts on directing the branches assignment of agricultural land according to the and levels within the provinces to draw up the zoning requirements of Decree No. 64-CP; organize and guide and plans for the use of land, first of all clearly land-swapping campaigns so as to quickly overcome determining the demand to use land for the purposes the existing state of scatteredness and scantiness. of communications, irrigation, construction of public facilities, to expand rural residential areas and urban centers ... which shall serve as the basis for quickly 5. To speed up the assignment ofland and the implementing the land assignment and the granting of granting of agricultural land use right certificate to agricultural land use right certificates. farmers, the National Administration of Land shall provide detailed guidance for responsible local land

2. All organizations, households and individuals administration agencies to, apart from speeding up that have been assigned land by the State or are directly the tempo of measuring and drawing land managing and using land for agricultural production, administrative maps, systemizing existing documents forestry, aquaculture or salt production but have not and data, organizing professional skills training and yet been granted land use right certificates shall have quickly training specialized personnel from the to declare and register their total land areas they are provincial to grassroots level, exploit and make directly using at the commune People's Committees optimum use of existing documents, data and maps for consideration and granting of land use right and revise, depending on the specific conditions of certificates according to the declaration and each province, the documents, data and maps registration plan of each locality. surveyed in implementation of Directive No. 299-TTg of October 11, 1980 of the Prime Minister; use each The provincial People's Committees shall guide and locality's available results of measuring and drawing direct the district People's Committees and the land administrative maps with or without coordinates; commune People's Committees shall have to organize draw maps on the site on the basis of the modified the declaration and registration of the land use right aviation photos; use the documents, data and maps and compile adequate dossiers and submit them to the as the basis for assigning land to each household district People's Committees for approval and granting during the implementation of the land assignment plan of land use right certificates to households and according to Decree No. 64-CP; For localities that do individuals in their localities. not have the above-mentioned maps and documents the local land administration agencies may organize The National Administration of Land shall issue by themselves the measurement and drawing with uniform and specific regulations and forms for the the simple metl1od of measuring and sticking marking compilation and management of dossiers and poles to delineate the boundaries between procedures for consideration, approval and granting households' land lots to serve as the basis for the of land use right certificates applicable in the whole land assignment and granting of land use right country. certificates (adjustment can be made later when measurement conditions permit).

3. The People's Committees of the provinces and cities directly under the Central Government shall have to calculate and allocate funding for fulfillment of the 6. The National Administration of Land shall task of assigning land and granting agricultural land coordinate with the State Inspectorate, tl1e Ministry use right certificates according to their plans on the of Justice, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural basis of utilizing various resources including direct Development and the concerned ministries and productive labor in communes, administrative and non- branches in guiding the localities and directly guiding business labor in the branches of the provinces, State the timely settlement of problems arising in the course budget revenues from the land use right certificate- of considering, approving and granting land use right granting fees according to current regulations and certificates such as the settlement of land-related provincial State budget grants. disputes and complaints, handling ofviolations of the land legislation... , creating conditions for the localities The Ministry of Finance shall provide uniform to fulfi.11 the land assignment and granting ofland use 14 OFFICIAL GAZETTE No.9 (31-3-1998) right certificates. The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies and agencies attached to the Government and the presidents of the People's Committees at all levels shall have to direct and organize the strict implementation of this Directive. The National Administration of Land shall assist the Prime Minister in supervising and urging the implementation of this Directive, sum up and report the implementation results in each province to the Prime Minister. For the Prime Minister Depury Prime Minister NGUYEN CONG TAN