Chương I Thông tư liên tịch 43/2015/TTLT-BNNPTNT-BKHĐT: Quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope and regulated entities

1. Scope

a) This Circular provides for the statistical indicators, forms, contents, methods, procedures and responsibilities for making statistics of and assessing damage caused by natural disasters of ministries, departments; centrally-affiliated cities and provinces (hereinafter referred to as “province”); provincial districts, prefectures, towns and cities (hereinafter referred to as “district”; communes, wards and towns (hereinafter referred to as “commune”).

b) Natural disasters assessed according to this Circular are specified in Clause 1 Article 3 of the Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and other natural disasters specified in legislative documents on natural disaster recovery.

2. Regulated entities

This Circular applies to organizations and individuals relating to the statistics and assessment of damage caused by natural disasters in Vietnam.

Article 2. Definitions

In this Circular, these terms are construed as follows:

1. “Damage caused by natural disasters” refers to impacts of natural disasters on humans and livestock at different level; causing destruction or damage on property, the environment, living conditions and economic and social activities during or immediately after the disaster.

2. “Damage to human life” includes dead, missing or injured people. The dead are those who have been killed by natural disasters, not including those who died due to other causes during the occurring time of natural disasters at the locality. Missing people are those who were not found after the disaster occurred, may have died but not yet found bodies or have no information, after 1 year, the missing person is considered dead. The injured are those who are physically hurt by the direct impact of the disaster, affecting their normal activities.

3. “Damage to livestock” includes cattle and poultries being dead, washed away or buried.

4. “Damage to property” includes housing, infrastructure and related facilities; crops, boats, cages and rafts for aquaculture and other forms of properties as specified in the statistical forms enclosed herewith.

5.”Permanent house” refers to a house with all three main structures (column, roof, wall) made of durable materials.

6.”Semi-permanent house” refers to a house with 2 of the 3 main structures made of durable materials.

7.”Impermanent house” refers to a house with only 1 of the 3 main structures made of durable material.

8. Simple house is a house with all 3 main structures made of non-durable material.

9. “Durable material” refers to materials such as reinforced concrete; brick, stone, iron, steel and durable wood.

10. Campus/school refers to the school facility where teachers and students come to teach and study.

11. Classroom, functional room, tenement, semi-boarding house are school facilities where teachers, students, students regularly attend classrooms for lectures, experiment practicing and learning exchange.

12. “Number of health facilities” refers to hospitals, medical centers, public or private health stations located within the territory of the reporting administrative division.

13. Public cultural building refers to constructive institutions built to serve cultural, information and propaganda activities.

14. Perennial plant refers to a plan that completes its life cycle, from germination to production, for more than one year.

15. Annual plant refers to a plan that completes its life cycle, from germination to production, within one year.

16. Concentrated area of newly-planted forests refers to land used for planting forest crops meeting required cultivation standards and covering an area of at least 0.5 ha.

17. Food refers to products such as rice, corn, sweet potato and dried cassava harvested within the year.

Article 3. Level of damage

Property damage is classified as follows:

1. Full damage: the property is lost or damaged to the extent that over 70% of it cannot be restored.

2. Extremely severe damage: 50—70% of the property is reduced productivity or damaged.

3. Severe damage: 30%-50% of the property is reduced productivity or damaged.

4. Partial damage: Less than 30% of the property is reduced productivity or damaged.

Article 4. Principles of statistics and assessment of damage

1. Statistics and assessment of damage shall comply with practical status and meet the guideline, management and natural disasters response. The damage statistical report shall be prepared by competent persons.

2. Ensure the objectiveness, openness and transparency; reflect the practical extent of damage caused by natural disasters.

3. Ensure close cooperation between the agencies and units related to statistical activities and assessment of damage.

4. Satisfy requirements of damage statistics making and assessment.