THE GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF LAND ADMINISTRATION
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 1842/2001/TT-TCDC
Hanoi, November 01, 2001
 
CIRCULAR
GUIDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GOVERNMENT’S DECREE NO. 68/2001/ND-CP OF OCTOBER 1, 2001 ON LAND USE PLANNING AND PLANS
Pursuant to the July 14, 1993 Land Law; the December 2, 1998 Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Land Law; the June 29, 2001 Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Land Law;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 34/CP of April 23, 1994 on the functions, tasks, powers and organizational apparatus of the General Land Administration;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No.68/2001/ND-CP of October 1, 2001 on land use planning and plans;
The General Land Administration hereby guides the elaboration, consideration, approval, management and realization of land use plannings and plans as follows:
Part I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. Application objects and scope
This Circular guides the elaboration, consideration, approval, management and realization of land use plannings and plans of the whole country; the provinces, centrally- run cities (hereinafter called collectively the provincial level); the rural districts, urban districts, provincial capitals and towns (hereinafter called collectively the district level); the communes, wards, district towns (hereinafter called collectively the commune level).
The ministries, branches which have demands to use land must register therefor with the provincial-level People’s Committees for inclusion into the land use plannings and plans of the localities.
2. The plannings and plans on use of land for defense and/or security purposes shall be elaborated and submitted to the Government by the Defense Ministry or the Ministry of Public Security in coordination with the General Land Administration, concerned ministries, branches and provincial-level People’s Committees. The elaboration, management and realization of the plannings and plans on the use of land for defense or security purpose shall be stipulated by the Defense Ministry or the Ministry of Public Security.
3. Competence to elaborate, evaluate, consider, approve and adjust land use plannings, plans:
a/ The General Land Administration:

- To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the concerned ministries and branches in elaborating the land-use plannings and five-year plans of the whole country;