| PRIME MINISTER --------- No: 10/2005/CT-TTg | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom – Happiness --------- Hanoi, April 05, 2005 |
DIRECTIVE
ON STRENGTHENING THE STATE MANAGEMENT OF MINERAL EXPLORATION, EXPLOITATION, PROCESSING AND EXPORT ACTIVITIES
THE PRIME MINISTER
In the past period mineral exploration, exploitation, processing and export activities have made important contributions to the socio-economic development. However, in mineral exploration, exploitation and processing there is still a lack of specific strategies and plans; due attention is still not paid to the investment in advance techniques and technologies for ore beneficiation and production of metals or alloys, but mainly to the extraction and export of crude ores, causing depletion and waste of mineral resources.
The main cause of the above situation is that State management of mineral resources is still weak and inadequate. The formulation of strategies and plans for mineral exploration, exploitation and processing by ministries and sectors within their functions is still slow. In assignment and decentralization of the state management of minerals the powers of local people's committees are not attached with their responsibilities. The coordination between relevant ministries, sectors with local people's committees in the control and treatment of violations to the mineral legislation is still loose and inefficient. In some localities, the management and protection of mineral resources is neglected, even the people's committees of some localities permit exploitation of minerals as common construction material and issue artisanal mining license not in accordance with the provisions of the law.
With the aim to strengthen the state management of mineral resources according to the mineral law and the documents guiding its implementation, the Prime Minister requires Ministries, sectors, People's Committees of provinces and cities under the central authority to implement immediately some works as follows:
1. The People's committees of provinces and cities under the central authority shall take the lead and coordinate with the Ministries of Natural Resources and Environment, Public Security, Trade, Finance to organize the control of the present status of exploitation, processing and trade of minerals within their areas of jurisdiction; suspend immediately any exploitation, processing, trading, export of minerals not in compliance with the provisions of the law; take measures to sanction strictly against any organizations or individual violating the law in their exploitation, processing, trading and export of minerals; deprive the right of using license within their competence or propose to the competent agency to revoke mineral licenses; revoke immediately artisanal mining licenses issued not in accordance with the regulations; clarify responsibilities and sanction strictly those organizations or individuals that have issued mining and mineral processing licenses not in accordance with the regulations. Actions of serious violation must be prosecuted for responsibility according to the law. The People's Committee of provinces and cities directly under the central authority shall report to the Prime Minister before 30 May 2005 about their implementation of the above works.
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