Chương II Nghị định 65/2017/NĐ-CP: Chính sách đặc thù

Chapter II

SPECIFIC POLICIES

Article 4. Priority given to recognition of herbal varieties

1. Local herbal varieties may be considered to be included in the list of animal breeds or permissible herbal varieties for production and trading in Vietnam without going through assay and recognition of new plant varieties or animal breeds specified in Ordinance on plant varieties 2004 and Ordinance on animal breeds 2004 and guiding documents thereof.

2. New herbal varieties developed by organizations or individuals shall be proposed for exceptional recognition under regulations in Ordinance on plant varieties 2004 and its guiding documents (for plant varieties) or regulations in Ordinance on animal breeds 2004 and its guiding documents (for animal breeds).

Article 5. Assistance in herbal variety production

1.  A lump sum assistance shall be 50% of total cost for infrastructure investment including reform of farm, irrigation system and internal traffic for such farm, net house, greenhouse, breeding facilities, maintenance house and environmental issue handling which is given to intensive propagation facilities which own at least 2 ha of land for herb cultivation and 0.5 ha of land for animal breeding for the purpose of herbal ingredient production but not exceeding 2 billion VND/facility.  Assistance given to herbal variety producers which apply hi-technology according to criteria issued by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development must not exceed 3 VND billion/producer. 

2. A lump sum assistance shall be 60% of the cost for production of original herbal varieties or 30% of the cost for production of commercial varieties according to economic-technical restrictions issued by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.  In case hi-technology for production is applied, the assistance given shall be 80% and 50% of production costs for original varieties and commercial varieties, respectively.

3. An assistance of 100% of the cost for technical training offered to the variety producer according to standard expenditure specified in Decree No.02/2010/ND-CP dated January 08, 2010 of the Government on agricultural encouragement and guiding documents shall be given.

Article 6. Assistance in application of technology for production and use of herbal ingredients to follow the practice of good herbal ingredient production and use

1. Develop a model for applying technology for production and use of herbal ingredients, give an assistance of 100% of the cost of varieties, fertilizers and pesticides for herb cultivation and the cost of breeds, feed and veterinary drugs for animal breeding according to economic-technical regulations issued by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

2.  Give a lump sum assistance of 100% of the cost for issuance of certificate of eligibility for production and use of herbal ingredients

3. Give an assistance of 100% of the cost for technical training offered to the herb cultivator and user according to standard expenditure specified in Decree No.02/2010/ND-CP dated January 08, 2010 of the Government on agricultural encouragement and guiding documents.  

Article 7. Assistance in concentrated herbal ingredient production

Provide a lump sum assistance of 15 VND million/ha for infrastructure construction and variety purchase of the concentrated herbal ingredient production project with the scale of at least 5 ha of cultivating land or 2 ha of land for intensive breeding project.

Article 8. Land incentives

Organizations and individuals running projects on investment in research, propagation and production of herbal ingredients may be entitled to the following incentive policies on land:

1. If the land or water surface used for farming and construction of factory and storage warehouse is leased from the State, the aforementioned entities may be exempted from land rent and water surface rent as per provisions of the Law on Land.

The unit price of leased land

Annual unit price equals (=) rate (%) multiplied by land price.  Where:  

The rate (%) to calculate the unit price is 0.5%.

Land price equals (=) Land price calculated according to equivalent using purpose specified in the land price list multiplied by the coefficient for land price adjustment.

In case the leased land area is in more than one locality with different land prices and land price adjustment coefficients, the land price for calculation of land rent shall be determined based upon the average land price of the whole leased land area.

2. Assistance in land gathering

a) In case the land or water surface is leased from family households or individuals, the State shall give a maximum assistance of 40% of the land rent or water surface rent in the first 5 years from the day on which the project is run; assistance amount shall be determined according to the unit price of leased land specified in Clause 1 Article 8 herein.

b) In case receiving the land use right transferred from family households or individuals, the entities may be exempted from charge for issuance of land use right certificate as per law soft provisions.

Article 9. Conditions for receiving assistance

Projects that are entitled to specific policies specified in Article 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this 6, Decree must satisfy the following requirements:

1. Herbal varieties must be named in the list of herbal varieties permitted for production and trading in Vietnam or recognized to be new varieties by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

2. Projects for production of herbal ingredients run by private organizations and individual investors specified in Article 7 herein must be approved by provincial People’s Committees.  Other cases must be approved by competent authorities.

3. The area for herb cultivation must be included in the development plan or planning approved by the competent regulatory agency or must be permitted by provincial People’s Committees in case no plan or planning is approved.

4. The investor shall make a commitment on reciprocal capital provision in order to perform tasks specified in the approved project (in addition to state assistance).   In case assistance for the project is contributed by asking for bank loans, a loan contract or loan-proving document is required.