Chương IX Luật Thực hành tiết kiệm, chống lãng phí 2005: Trách nhiệm của cơ quan, tổ chức trong thực hành tiết kiệm, chống lãng phí

Chapter IX

RESPONSIBILITIES OF AGENCIES, ORGANIZATIONS IN THRIFT PRACTICE AND WASTE COMBAT

Article 66.- Responsibilities of the Government

1. To submit to the National Assembly or the National Assembly Standing Committee for promulgation or to promulgate according to its competence legal documents, policies and measures for thrift practice and waste combat.

2. To amend, supplement or promulgate in time techno-economic norms, norms, criteria and regulations on the use of state budget, state money and properties, suitable to socio-economic conditions in each period, ensuring thrift practice and waste combat.

3. To direct and organize the inspection and examination of thrift practice and waste combat; to handle in time, strictly and publicly acts of violating law on thrift practice and waste combat according to competence.

4. To approve overall annual and long-term programs on thrift practice and waste combat; direct ministries, ministerial-level agencies, Government-attached agencies and provincial/municipal People's Committees in formulating and implementing their respective annual and long-term programs on thrift practice and waste combat; organize and direct the preliminary review and final review of the implementation of such programs and adopt measures to commend ministries, branches and localities for their good performance and handle ministries, branches and localities that fail to implement, are slow to implement them or have implemented them with less efficiency; report to the National Assembly on thrift practice and waste combat results at its year-end sessions.

5. To coordinate with the Fatherland Front and direct the mass media in intensifying the propagation of thrift practice and waste combat and mobilization of the entire population to practice thrift and combat waste.

Article 67.- Responsibilities of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, Government-attached agencies

1. To detail, formulate and guide the implementation of policies and measures for thrift practice and waste combat and direct their subordinate agencies, organizations in deployment of thrift practice and waste combat.

2. To revise the techno-economic norm systems under their respective management; to amend, supplement, promulgate or submit to competent authorities for timely promulgation such systems suitable to practical situation, scientific and technological advance, ensuring thrift and combating waste.

3. To work out and implement programs on thrift practice and waste combat and periodically report to the Government on the implementation results; to perform the work of inspection and examination, handle violations and publicize the handling of violations of regulations on thrift practice and waste combat in domains under their respective management and inspect, examine and handle agencies and organizations under their respective management.

4. To exercise the right to supervise the thrift practice and waste combat by citizens, agencies and organizations.

5. Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies or Government-attached agencies shall have to organize the implementation of the provisions of this Article and take responsibility for the results of thrift practice and waste combat in their respective assigned domains of management.

Article 68.- Responsibilities of the Finance Ministry

1. To amend, supplement, promulgate or submit to competent authorities for timely promulgation the norms, criteria and financial regimes on management and use of state budget, state money and properties, suitable to reality and capability of the state budget; to promulgate expenditure control regulations and procedures; to stipulate the regime of public financial statement and process of management and use of state properties.

2. To inspect, examine the state budget allocation and use; the management and use of state properties, the allocation of investment capital for construction, the management and use of state capital and properties at enterprises.

3. To sum up and submit to the Government for approval the annual and long-term overall programs on thrift practice and waste combat; to implement and periodically sum up and report on the results of implementation of programs on thrift practice and waste combat.

Article 69.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Planning and Investment

1. To guide the formulation and appraisal of branch, regional development plannings and plans; to formulate and guide the formulation of investment project plannings, plans and lists, meeting thrift practice and waste combat requirements.

2. To appraise, supervise and evaluate investment projects under its competence according to the provisions of law on investment and construction management, ensuring the efficiency, conformity with socio-economic development strategy and approved plannings, plans.

3. To guide the implementation of bidding under the provisions of law on bidding; to inspect and examine the bidding according to competence.

4. To draw up and submit to the Government for promulgation and organize the implementation of regulations on investment supervision by communities.

Article 70.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Construction

1. To manage construction plannings, grant construction permits, manage construction according to plannings, ensuring thrift and combating waste.

2. To amend, supplement, promulgate or submit to competent authorities for timely promulgation standards, techno-economic norms and criteria on investment in capital construction, which shall serve as bases for examination and assessment of thrift practice and waste combat.

3. To guide and conduct inspection and examination of construction works, ensuring the quality requirements, thrift and efficiency.

Article 71.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

1. To guide the elaboration and appraisal of land use plannings and plans, ensuring the rational arrangement, thrifty and efficient exploitation and use of land.

2. To amend, supplement, promulgate or submit to competent authorities for timely promulgation norms, criteria, process, regulations, techno-economic norms on exploitation and use of natural resources; to elaborate and promulgate the regulations on management, exploitation and use of natural resources.

3. To inspect and examine the land allocation, land lease, the grant of land use right certificates; the management and use of water and other resources according to its managerial competence.

Article 72.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Home Affairs

1. To amend, supplement, promulgate or submit to competent authorities for timely promulgation the regulations on responsibilities of public servants in thrift practice and waste combat. To guide the elaboration, consider and approve and implement the structures of public servant grades in agencies, organizations.

2. To coordinate with the Finance Ministry in amending, supplementing, promulgating or submitting to competent authorities for promulgation the regulations on use of means of transport, public-duty houses by public servants.

3. To guide and conduct the examination and inspection of the observance of regulations on management of payrolls, management of public servant grades and management of wage funds in agencies and organizations operating with the state budget funding.

Article 73.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs

1. To amend, supplement, promulgate or submit to competent authorities for timely promulgation the labor norms, the regulations on labor disciplines and working time, ensuring thrift and efficiency.

2. To formulate, promulgate, guide the implementation of, the regulations on labor organization, on employment of skilled laborers.

3. To inspect, examine the observance of labor disciplines, working time in state companies.

Article 74.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Culture and Information

1. To promulgate or submit to competent authorities for timely promulgation plans, programs on propagation and campaigning for emulation movement for thrift practice and waste combat among people.

2. To promulgate regulations on anniversary, festivity, conference, seminar-organizing formalities.

3. To direct, guide the mass media in propagating and praising good people and good deeds in thrift practice and waste combat; to struggle against, criticize acts of causing waste.

4. To inspect, examine the thrift practice and waste combat in domains under its management.

Article 75.- Responsibilities of the People's Councils of all levels

1. To amend, supplement and promulgate norms, criteria and regimes according their decentralized competence and suitable to local budgets' capability.

2. To decide on estimates and allocation of local budget according to norms, criteria and regimes promulgated by competent state bodies; to ratify the local budget settlement, ensuring the requirements of thrift practice and waste combat.

3. To decide on measures to practice thrift and combat waste in localities.

4. To supervise thrift practice and waste combat in localities; to supervise the implementation of publicity in the domains specified in Article 6 of this Law in localities.

Article 76.- Responsibilities of the People's Committees of all levels

1. To formulate and implement annual and long-term programs on thrift practice and waste combat; to decide according to competence on and organize the application of measures to practice thrift and combat waste in localities.

2. To organize the implementation of regulations on budget management, construction and investment management, state property management; to inspect the use of state capital and properties at enterprises according to regulations on management decentralization.

3. To effect publicity in the domains specified in Article 6 of this Law according to competence and decentralization in localities; to ensure the exercise of the right to supervise the thrift practice and waste combat by citizens and concerned agencies as well as organizations.

4. To direct, organize the inspection, examination and evaluation of, and to periodically report on, the thrift practice and waste combat situation in localities to the People's Councils of the same level at their sessions, to superior People's Committees or the Government. To severely and promptly handle according competence and to publicize the handling of acts of violating the law on thrift practice and waste combat in localities.

5. Presidents of the People's Committees of all levels shall have the task to organize the implementation of provisions of this Article and bear responsibility for the results of thrift practice and waste combat in localities.

Article 77.- Responsibilities of the Fatherland Front and its member organizations

1. To organize the propagation for, to agitate and guide people in practicing thrift and combating waste in production and consumption.

2. To supervise the thrift practice and waste combat in agencies and organizations using the state budget, state money and properties; to supervise the thrift practice, waste combat in people's production and consumption; to supervise the handling of waste-causing acts.

Article 78.- Responsibilities of the inspection agencies, State Audit, investigation bodies, people's procuracies, people's courts

1. The inspection agencies shall have to inspect, detect acts of violating provisions of law on thrift practice and waste combat for handling according to competence or proposing competent state bodies to handle them according to provisions of law.

2. The State Audit, if detecting acts of causing waste while performing its auditing function, shall have to propose competent state bodies to handle them according to the provisions of law; the audit results related to acts of violating law on thrift practice and waste combat must be publicized.

3. The inspection agencies, the people's procuracies, the people's courts shall, within the ambit of their respective functions, tasks and powers, have to coordinate with the concerned agencies and organizations in handling in time and severely acts of violating law on thrift practice and waste combat.