Chapter V
RESPONSIBILITIES OF MANAGING AGENCIES AND UNITS
Article 13.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
1. To evaluate and approve environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects according to its competence. To send dossiers of approval of environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects to People's Committees of provinces or centrally run cities (below collectively referred to as provincial-level People's Committees) where concerned organizations and individuals exploit minerals for inspection and supervision.
2. To inspect and certify the completion of environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects it has approved at the proposal of mineral exploiters.
3. To inspect and guide the making of deposits and environmental rehabilitation and restoration.
4. To send annual reports to the Prime Minister.
Article 14.- Responsibilities of ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies
1. To evaluate and approve environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects according to their competence. To send dossiers of approval of environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects to provincial-level People's Committees of localities where concerned organizations and individuals exploit minerals for inspection and supervision.
2. To inspect and certify the completion of environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects they have approved at the proposal of mineral exploiters.
3. To inspect according to their competence mineral exploiters in making deposits and conducting environmental rehabilitation and restoration.
4. To annually report to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on the making of deposits and the environmental rehabilitation and restoration by mineral exploiters.
Article 15.- Responsibilities of provincial-level People's Committees
1. To evaluate and approve environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects according to their competence.
2. To inspect and certify the completion of environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects they have approved at the proposal of mineral exploiters.
3 To inspect and guide according to their competence mineral exploiters in making deposits and conducting environmental rehabilitation and restoration.
4. To annually report to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on the making of deposits and the environmental rehabilitation and restoration by mineral exploiters.
Article 16.- Responsibilities of People's Committees of districts, towns and provincial cities (below collectively referred to as district-level People's Committees)
1. To evaluate and approve environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects according to their competence. To send dossiers of approval of environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects to provincial - level People's Committees for inspection and supervision.
2. To inspect and certify the completion of environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects they have approved at the proposal of mineral exploiters.
3. To inspect and guide according to their competence mineral exploiters in making deposits and conducting environmental rehabilitation and restoration.
4. To annually report to provincial-level People's Committees on the making of deposits and the environmental rehabilitation and restoration by mineral exploiters.
Article 17.- Responsibilities of Environmental Protection Funds
1. To receive deposits made by licensed mineral exploiters, to certify in writing depositors' depositing, keep documents related to depositing, and pay deposits according to current regulations.
2. To pay deposits to eligible organizations and individuals according to regulations. The Vietnam Environmental Protection Fund shall report to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment while local Environmental Protection Funds shall report to provincial-level People's Committees on the collection, refund and management of environmental rehabilitation and restoration deposits according to regulations.
3. To pay deposit interests to depositors according to current regulations.
4. To urge mineral exploiters to make deposits on time. To propose competent authorities to issue decisions on sanctioning late depositors.
Article 18..- Responsibilities of mineral exploiters
1. To formulate post-mining environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects and submit them to competent authorities for evaluation and approval.
2. To notify the contents of approved environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects to commune-level People's Committees and Fatherland Front Committees of localities where minerals are exploited for inspection and supervision.
3. To make environmental rehabilitation and restoration deposits under this Decision.
4. To rehabilitate and restore the environment under approved environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects.
5. In case a mineral exploiter returns the mineral exploitation license or has it revoked, if the deposited sum of money is bigger than the sum actually used for environmental rehabilitation and restoration, the difference shall be refunded to the depositor. The refund shall be made only after there is a certificate of the completion of environmental rehabilitation and restoration. If the deposited sum of money is smaller than the sum actually used for environmental rehabilitation and restoration, the mineral exploiter shall additionally pay the difference into the Environmental Protection Fund where the deposit has been made.
6. Within 5 (five) years after completing environmental rehabilitation and restoration. mineral exploiters shall continue to be held answerable for the quality of environmental rehabilitation and restoration projects: when environmental incidents occur in places where environmental rehabilitation and restoration have been conducted, they shall pay for remedying the incidents.
Tìm kiếm
Quyết định 71/2008/QĐ-TTG (Bản Word)