Resolution No. 120/2026/UBTVQH15 Amending and Supplementing Certain Articles of Resolution No. 70/2025/UBTVQH15 dated February 7, 2025, of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Principles, Criteria, and Allocation Standards for State Budget Capital for Public Investment Projects for the 2026-2030 Period

RESOLUTION

AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF RESOLUTION NO. 70/2025/UBTVQH15 DATED FEBRUARY 7, 2025 OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE ON PRINCIPLES, CRITERIA, AND ALLOCATION RATES FOR STATE BUDGET FUNDS FOR PUBLIC INVESTMENT PROJECTS FOR THE 2026-2030 PERIOD

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE

WHEREAS

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM

HAS BEEN AMENDED AND COMPLEMENTED WITH SOME ARTICLES PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 203/2025/QH15;

WHEREAS THE LAW ON PUBLIC INVESTMENT NO. 58/2024/QH15 HAS BEEN AMENDED AND COMPLEMENTED WITH SOME ARTICLES PURSUANT TO LAW NO. 90/2025/QH15;

WHEREAS THE LAW ON STATE BUDGET NO. 89/2025/QH15; WHEREAS THE LAW ON ENACTING LEGAL DOCUMENTS NO. 64/2025/QH15

HAS BEEN AMENDED AND COMPLEMENTED WITH SOME ARTICLES PURSUANT TO LAW NO. 87/2025/QH15;

RESOLVES: ARTICLE 1. AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF RESOLUTION NO. 70/2025/UBTVQH15 DATED FEBRUARY 7, 2025 OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE ON PRINCIPLES, CRITERIA, AND ALLOCATION RATES FOR STATE BUDGET FUNDS FOR PUBLIC INVESTMENT PROJECTS FOR THE 2026-2030 PERIOD. 1. AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING POINT A OF CLAUSE 8, ARTICLE 3 AS FOLLOWS: “a) SPECIAL PUBLIC INVESTMENT PROJECTS, EMERGENCY PUBLIC INVESTMENT PROJECTS;”

2. AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING POINT A OF CLAUSE 2, ARTICLE 4 AS FOLLOWS:

“a) ALLOCATING UP TO 30% OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT BUDGET FUNDS TO TARGETED SUPPLEMENTATION FOR LOCALITIES AND BEING ALLOCATED BY SECTOR AND FIELD (EXCLUDING FUNDS FOR PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS UNDER THE NATIONAL TARGET PROGRAM, ODA FUNDS, FOREIGN LOANS WITH FAVORABLE TERMS FROM FOREIGN DONORS, AND FUNDS FOR TASKS, PROGRAMS, AND PROJECTS ALLOCATED BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AS PROVIDED FOR IN POINT B OF THIS CLAUSE);”

3. AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING CERTAIN POINTS AND CLAUSES OF ARTICLE 8 AS FOLLOWS:

a) AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING POINT A OF CLAUSE 1, ARTICLE 8 AS FOLLOWS:

“a) ENSURING A REASONABLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF KEY ECONOMIC REGIONS, DRIVING REGIONS, AND GROWTH POLES WITH THE PRIORITY GIVEN TO THE MIDLAND AND NORTHWESTERN MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS, THE COASTAL CENTRAL REGION AND THE WESTERN HIGHLANDS, THE LOWER MEKONG DELTA, MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS, BORDER AREAS, ISLANDS, AND ETHNIC MINORITY REGIONS AND OTHER DIFFICULT REGIONS TO HELP REDUCE THE GAP IN DEVELOPMENT LEVELS, INCOME, AND LIVING STANDARDS BETWEEN REGIONS AND AREAS ACROSS THE COUNTRY;”

b) AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING POINT B OF CLAUSE 2 AS FOLLOWS:

“b) ALLOCATING FUNDS TO PROGRAMS, TASKS, AND PROJECTS IN SECTORS AND FIELDS OF LOCALITIES BASED ON SCORING ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:

- POPULATION CRITERION: THE AVERAGE POPULATION AND THE NUMBER OF ETHNIC MINORITY POPULATIONS OF LOCALITIES (EXCEPT HANOI CITY AND HO CHI MINH CITY);

- DEVELOPMENT LEVEL CRITERION: THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY RATE, LOCAL REVENUE AS PROVIDED FOR IN THE LAW ON STATE BUDGET (EXCLUDING REVENUE FROM LAND USE AND LOTTERY), THE RATE OF BALANCE SUPPLEMENTATION FROM THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT BUDGET TO THE LOCAL BUDGET;

- AREA CRITERION: NATURAL LAND AREA, RICE CULTIVATION AREA, FOREST COVER RATE OF LOCALITIES;

- COMMUNE ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT CRITERION: THE NUMBER OF COMMUNE ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS; THE NUMBER OF MOUNTAINOUS COMMUNES; HIGHLAND COMMUNES; BORDER COMMUNES OF EACH LOCALITY;

- ADDITIONAL CRITERIA INCLUDING:

+ ANTI-JAPAN WAR COMMUNE CRITERION; AREAS AFFECTED BY NATIONAL DEFENSE PROJECTS AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS GROUPS; EXTREMELY DIFFICULT COMMUNES IN ZONE III;

+ REGION CRITERION: REGIONS HEAVILY AFFECTED BY NATURAL DISASTERS AND CLIMATE CHANGE (HEAVY RAINS, LANDSLIDES, FLASH FLOODS, BANK EROSION, COASTAL EROSION, DROUGHT, SALINIZATION, SEA LEVEL RISE...);

+ PRIORITIZED CRITERION ACCORDING TO NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTIONS.”

4. AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING CLAUSE 2, ARTICLE 9 AS FOLLOWS:

“2. FOCUSING INVESTMENTS ON INTER-COUNTY AND INTER-COMMUNE PROJECTS. CONCENTRATING INVESTMENTS WITH FOCUS, EFFECTIVENESS, AND SPREAD; ENSURING THAT INVESTMENTS ARE NOT SPREAD THIN OR FRAGMENTED.”

ARTICLE 2. EFFECTIVE DATE

THIS RESOLUTION SHALL TAKE EFFECT FROM THE DATE OF APPROVAL AND APPLY TO THE 2026-2030 BUDGET YEARS.

THIS RESOLUTION WAS PASSED BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM, TERM XV ON FEBRUARY 3, 2026.

CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE

(SIGNATURE)

TRAN THANH MANH

This Resolution was adopted by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Term XV, on February 3, 2026.