Directive No. 13/CT-TTg on Building the Plan for Socio-Economic Development and State Budget Estimate for 2014

DIRECTIVE

On building the plan for economic and social development and state budget estimate for 2014

The year 2014 is a crucial year in the implementation of the five-year plan targets. To build the plan for economic and social development and the state budget estimate for 2014, the Prime Minister instructs ministries, ministerial-level agencies, other central agencies, provinces, centrally governed cities, economic groups, and state-owned corporations to implement the main tasks and contents as follows:

A. MAIN OBJECTIVES AND TASKS OF THE PLAN FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND STATE BUDGET ESTIMATE FOR 2014

I. GENERAL OBJECTIVE:

Accelerate economic development while maintaining macroeconomic stability. Vigorously implement economic restructuring and model reform for growth. Ensure social welfare, public benefits, and improve people's living standards. Expand and enhance the effectiveness of external activities and international integration. Consolidate national defense, ensure political security and social order and safety. Strengthen anti-corruption and thrift measures.

II. MAIN TASKS:

Effectively implement the tasks and solutions proposed in the Central Committee's resolutions, National Assembly's resolutions, Government's resolutions, focusing on the following tasks:

1. Regarding economic development:

a) Speed up the progress of implementing the project on economic restructuring linked with the transformation of the growth model towards enhancing quality, efficiency, and competitiveness of the economy during the period from 2013 to 2020. Focus on reviewing and adjusting development plans to exploit potential and advantages to promote economic development. Strive to achieve a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of about 6%.

Enhance mobilization of domestic and foreign resources for economic development investment. Concentrate on researching and perfecting mechanisms and policies to mobilize socialized resources from various economic sectors to participate in infrastructure construction, agricultural and rural development, scientific research and technological development. Continue to strengthen management of state budget investment and government bonds, overcome the scattered allocation of funds, and improve investment efficiency.

Improve the effectiveness of external economic activities. Continue to strengthen measures to solicit ODA funding, implement comprehensive and effective solutions to promote ODA disbursement. Vigorously attract and enhance the quality of foreign direct investment projects. Continue to effectively implement measures to encourage and promote exports, especially high-value-added products.

b) Consistently implement the goal of strengthening macroeconomic stability.

Implement monetary policy with the aim of stabilizing the value of the Vietnamese currency and ensuring effective capital supply to the economy, contributing to curbing inflation and maintaining macroeconomic stability. Strive to curb inflation around 7%. Continue to improve the financial market, reduce non-performing loan ratios. Promote non-bank financing channels. Effectively implement the Vietnam Asset Management Company and properly carry out the restructuring plan for commercial banks.

Continue to implement fiscal policy in coordination with monetary policy to ensure macroeconomic stability and promote economic growth. Strengthen state budget management, strictly control public debt and bad debts of state-owned enterprises. Strengthen market and price management.

2. Regarding social development:

a) Social security: Focus on implementing comprehensive mechanisms and policies to create new jobs and address employment issues. Strengthen labor condition inspection, supervision, safety, and labor protection; promptly grasp and resolve labor disputes. Effectively implement social insurance and unemployment insurance policies, expand social insurance participation. Implement comprehensively and effectively poverty reduction programs, especially in poor districts, remote areas, and ethnic minority regions.

Fully and timely implement social security policies that have been issued, particularly for war veterans, social assistance recipients, elderly individuals living alone, and children in difficult circumstances.

b) Health care and protection: Focus on implementing tasks such as consolidating and improving the effectiveness of the preventive health network, proactively preventing and controlling diseases, and not allowing major epidemics to occur. Continue to implement comprehensive measures to reduce hospital overcrowding, improve healthcare service quality. Strictly manage drug prices and quality. Strengthen inspections and checks on food hygiene and safety.

c) Education and training development: Focus on implementing the Higher Education Law, the Education Development Strategy, and the conclusions of the 6th Plenum (XI). Vigorously implement lifelong learning; rectify additional teaching and learning, and joint training; improve the quality of higher education, especially private higher education. Improve the quality of universal education, especially primary and secondary education; ensure no gender disparity in accessing education at all levels. Improve the quality of human resource training with a reasonable structure. Continue to implement measures to increase the proportion of trained labor.

d) Science and technology development: Vigorously implement Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW dated October 31, 2012 of the 6th Plenum (XI) on science and technology development serving industrialization, modernization under a socialist-oriented market economy and international integration. Continue to implement the Science and Technology Development Strategy for the period 2011-2020 and national programs on science and technology. Continue to strongly and comprehensively reform the management, organization, and operation of science and technology. Prioritize high-tech development. Develop technology consulting, appraisal, and certification services and the science and technology market. Strengthen intellectual property rights management.

d) Continue to consolidate and build a healthy, rich, diverse cultural environment, enhance the effectiveness of the cultural and sports system at all levels. Promote socialization and diversification of resources for the fields of culture and sports. Strengthen management of festivals, cultural activities, and sports; minimize the use of state budget funds to organize festivals.

Continue to intensify information dissemination work; increase official information in a transparent, timely manner about the policies and guidelines of the Party and State, and the socio-economic development situation. Improve the quality of information, press, publishing activities; expand radio and television coverage of ethnic minority languages to remote areas, mountainous regions, border areas, and islands.

e) Build a safe and friendly living environment for children; ensure the implementation of children's rights. Create a comprehensive development environment for young people. Care for and promote the role of the elderly; build and develop a civilized and happy family model. Gradually ensure gender equality in all aspects of politics, economy, culture, and society; narrow the gender gap and eliminate stereotypes about gender in social life.

g) Focus on effectively addressing pressing social issues, especially prolonged complaints and petitions, corruption, crime, drugs, social evils, traffic accidents, and negative phenomena in healthcare and education.

3. On environmental protection and response to climate change:

Continue to implement Resolution No. 7 (Session XI) of the Central Committee on proactively responding to climate change, strengthening resource management and environmental protection; Government resolutions on urgent issues in the field of environmental protection. Effectively implement priority directions regarding resources and the environment in the sustainable development strategy, green growth strategy, environmental protection strategy, national climate change strategy, and Millennium Development Goals on environmental protection and sustainable development.

4. On administrative reform; prevention and combating corruption and waste; complaints and denunciations:

Vigorously implement the overall administrative reform program for the 2011-2020 period, focusing on simplifying administrative procedures to facilitate businesses and the public. Enhance the quality of guidance documents and prevent the issuance of non-compliant and unfeasible documents. Actively implement the project to reform the civil service system; strengthen transparency in civil service activities. Focus on building an electronic government and a connected information system among ministries, sectors, and localities, promoting the one-stop-shop model. Implement the overall project to simplify administrative procedures, citizen documents, and related databases for population management from 2013 to 2020.

Strengthen inspection, supervision, auditing, and investigation to prevent, detect, and handle acts of corruption. Strictly enforce conclusions of inspections and post-inspection handling. Improve the quality of operations of specialized agencies responsible for preventing and combating corruption. Enhance the effectiveness of complaint and denunciation resolution work; minimize mass petition groups.

5. On foreign affairs, defense, and security:

Continue to implement well the independent foreign policy, strengthen international cooperation, and leverage external resources for national development. Strengthen defense and security consolidation, ensuring social order and safety, particularly in key areas, border regions, and islands, creating a peaceful and stable political environment for national development.

III. TASKS FOR BUILDING THE STATE BUDGET ESTIMATE

1. For the state budget revenue estimate:

The state budget revenue estimate for 2014 must be based on a thorough assessment of the actual state budget revenue in 2013, forecasting investment, production and business development, and trade and import-export activities in 2014; calculating specific factors affecting revenue increases and decreases due to the implementation of newly amended tax laws (Tax Management Law, Personal Income Tax Law, Corporate Income Tax Law, and Value Added Tax Law), tax exemptions, reductions, and extensions according to National Assembly and Government resolutions. Strengthen monitoring, inspection, and control of tax declarations by organizations and individuals to promptly identify and address incorrect and incomplete tax declarations; resolutely combat revenue loss, collect overdue taxes from previous years, and revenues from completed investment projects that have exceeded preferential periods, revenues discovered through inspection, audit, etc.

Based on this, set the target of mobilizing approximately 18-19% of GDP into the state budget from taxes and fees in 2014. The domestic revenue estimate (excluding oil revenue and land use fee) aims to increase by an average of about 12-13% compared to the estimated actual performance in 2013. The revenue estimate from import-export activities aims to increase by an average of about 8-9% compared to the estimated actual performance in 2013. Specific revenue increases will depend on conditions, characteristics, and be consistent with the economic growth rate in each locality.

2. For the state budget expenditure estimate:

Ministries, central agencies, and localities must strictly adhere to the principle of thrift and waste prevention from the outset when determining important tasks and priorities for implementation in 2014, and prepare the state budget expenditure estimate in accordance with current legal regulations on standards and expenditure limits. For programs, projects, and plans already approved by competent authorities, they should actively prioritize them according to their urgency and feasibility for implementation in 2014 to complete political tasks based on allocated state budget resources.

To serve the timely preparation of the 2014 state budget estimate, relevant ministries and central agencies managing sectors and fields are responsible for:

- Continue to review the economic-technical norms within the industry and sector under management to amend, supplement, or abolish them according to authority or submit to the competent authority for abolition or amendment and supplementation of economic-technical norms that are not in line with reality.

- Conduct a comprehensive evaluation of all policies and systems that have been issued recently (especially social welfare policies), on this basis integrate policies, implement abolition according to authority or submit to the competent authority for immediate abolition of overlapping, ineffective policies and systems; minimize the issuance of new policies and systems (including expanding the scope and application range of existing social welfare policies and systems) that increase state budget expenditures. Only submit to the competent authority for decision-making on policies when they are truly necessary and the resources are balanced, ensuring feasibility in implementation.

The preparation of the state budget expenditure estimate for 2014 for certain specific fields and tasks shall be carried out as follows:

a) Investment expenditure:

Investment expenditure planned for 2014 must be consistent with the socio-economic development plan for 2014 and the five-year period from 2011 to 2015; ensure investment expenditure as a proportion of total state budget expenditure at a reasonable level, striving to implement in accordance with the spirit of the Resolution of the Seventh Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam's Eleventh Tenure (No. 63-KL/TW dated May 27, 2013).

The allocation and distribution of capital for investment from the state budget in 2014 must adhere to the following principles:

- Implement in accordance with the provisions of Directive No. 1792/CT-TTg dated October 15, 2011 of the Prime Minister on strengthening the management of investment from the state budget and government bonds, and Directive No. 27/CT-TTg dated October 10, 2012 on key measures to address the backlog of construction projects at localities.

Focus on allocating capital for investment from the state budget to complete and accelerate the progress of important national projects, national target programs, and key projects with significant importance for national socio-economic development, industries, and localities.

- Within each industry and field, prioritize allocation of capital for projects and works that were completed and handed over for use before 2013 but did not receive sufficient capital; settle outstanding construction debts; projects expected to be completed in 2014 (according to the investment decision schedule, financial balance capability, and implementation capability in 2014); counterpart funds for ODA projects according to project implementation progress; projects using government bond funds for the period 2012-2015 but have not received sufficient capital to complete and achieve effectiveness.

- Allocate repayment of advance capital according to the Prime Minister's decision.

- The remaining capital shall be allocated for ongoing projects according to the approved schedule. For ongoing projects, a thorough review of the scope and scale of investment must be conducted to align with objectives and financial balance capabilities.

- For newly initiated projects, careful consideration must be given, and capital for new initiations can only be allocated for truly urgent projects when the source of capital and financial balance capability at each level of the budget are clearly identified; all investment procedures must be completed before October 31, 2013; capital can only be allocated for newly initiated projects after sufficient capital has been allocated to address outstanding construction debts according to Directive No. 27/CT-TTg dated October 10, 2012 of the Prime Minister; no capital from the state budget shall be allocated for projects not included in the investment expenditure tasks as stipulated by the State Budget Law.

- Localities shall not require enterprises to advance capital for projects outside the plan and without adequate financial balance; shall not use targeted support funds from the central budget for newly initiated projects未经翻译的部分已经是英文了，直接输出这部分内容即可。

b) Recurrent expenditure:

In preparing the recurrent expenditure budget estimate for 2014, it is required that ministries, central agencies, and localities:

- Prepare the budget estimate for the development of educational and training services, science and technology, health care, culture and information, environment in accordance with the resolutions of the Party and the National Assembly; prioritize allocation of expenditure for social security; defense and security expenditure in the new situation; administrative management expenditure to ensure strictness and economy. The recurrent expenditure budget is prepared based on current policies, systems, and expenditure norms.

- Review programs and projects to integrate, reduce overlap, redundancy, waste, rearrange, and restructure expenditure tasks in line with the state budget's financial balancing capacity. Strengthen the autonomy and responsibility of public service units regarding both task execution, personnel, and finance to diversify and improve the quality of public services and resources for the development of public affairs. Agencies and units, especially those managing industries and sectors and localities, need to clearly define the types of services provided by public service units and those provided by non-public units; actively build a pricing and fee framework for public service units in a classified manner for adjustment: units that can adjust prices and fees to cover salaries; units that can adjust prices and fees to cover salaries, part or all of management costs and depreciation of fixed assets. Based on this, classify public service units according to price and fee levels to determine appropriate budget support.

- Continue to supplement targeted funding from the central budget for localities to implement national target programs and goals and programs decided by authorized authorities.

- In conditions of difficult budget balance, require ministries, sectors, localities, agencies, and units using the budget to prepare regular expenditure budgets accurately according to the nature of funding sources/fully economize, especially procurement budgets for expensive equipment and facilities, minimize the number and scale of festivals, conferences, seminars, summaries, signing ceremonies, groundbreaking ceremonies, bestowal of titles, reception of guests, domestic and foreign trips, and other non-urgent tasks; the budget for these tasks shall not increase compared to the actual implementation in 2013 (after saving 30% of the 2013 budget).

- Ministries, central agencies, and localities continue to proactively implement mechanisms to generate funds for salary reform from savings of 10% of regular expenditures (excluding salaries and allowances with quality characteristics); part of the revenue retained under the regulations of administrative agencies and public institutions; 50% of increased local government revenues (excluding land use fee increases); unused funds from previous years' salary reforms (if any) to be used for basic salary (in lieu of the general minimum wage) up to 1,150,000 VND/month.

c) Implement national target programs:

Promptly review the implementation of national target programs during the 2011-2013 period and assess the implementation of the national target program in 2013; innovate management and operation mechanisms for national target programs towards integration and increasing local autonomy in the use of state budget capital, and enhancing the responsibility of the managing ministry and implementing agency for the program's objectives.

Localities should actively integrate national target programs with other programs and projects with similar content and implemented in the same area during the planning process; mobilize all resources comprehensively to achieve the common goals of the programs, ensuring focused, economical, and effective use of funds.

Develop allocation plans for the national target program expenditure budget for 2014 based on principles, criteria, and allocation standards for each program. State budget capital must be concentrated for allocation at localities, prioritizing areas with difficult conditions, places requiring concentrated resources to address urgent issues; prioritize funding for projects and works completed and handed over for use before 2013 but not fully funded, projects expected to be completed in 2014, and ongoing projects needing accelerated progress; minimize funding for conference, seminar, review, summary expenses, and study tours; do not allocate regular program budget funds for outbound delegations.

d) Regarding government bond capital:

Based on the government bond capital plan for the 2012-2015 period assigned and implemented in 2012-2013, ministries and localities:

- Report on the situation of reviewing and adjusting the scale of projects and reducing total investment accordingly for projects using government bond capital, ensuring consistency with the assigned government bond capital plan and the ability to mobilize other sources of capital. Among which, separately list the total investment for components that have not started construction and need to postpone their implementation to after 2015.

- Report on the implementation of the government bond capital plan for 2012-2013; propose adjustments to the government bond capital plan for the 2012-2015 period within the total government bond capital allocated to ministries and localities (if necessary) to ensure efficient use of this capital.

- Propose the level of government bond capital planned for 2014 for projects in the list of government bond capital usage for the 2012-2015 period, prioritizing allocation of capital for projects completed by 2013, expected to be completed in 2014 (according to the investment decision schedule); The capital allocation for each project shall not exceed the remaining capital plan for 2014-2015 after deducting the government bond capital advanced before 2011 that was not included in the previous year's plan for recovery (if any), to be sent to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance for consolidation and submission to the Prime Minister.

- Ministries and localities use state budget capital, other state capital sources, and mobilize capital from other economic sectors to supplement capital for ongoing projects using government bond capital that have not been adequately funded.

đ) Regarding programs and projects using official development assistance (ODA) capital:

Implement the preparation of the 2014 state budget estimate in accordance with the procedures and provisions of the State Budget Law, Public Debt Management Law, and guiding documents and Government Decrees on investment management and basic construction, management and use of official development assistance (ODA) capital, disbursement procedures in program/project documents and signed funding agreements, detailing ODA capital, counterpart capital according to programs/projects and the nature of basic construction investment capital, and operational expenses consistent with the 2014 disbursement schedule. Prioritize sufficient counterpart capital for ODA projects according to the disbursement schedule of the projects.

All loan and aid funds for climate change response purposes are balanced in the annual state budget estimate and allocated to implement common budget expenditure tasks, including the national target program on climate change response and investment in climate change response projects.

e) Central and local government budgets at all levels allocate contingency reserves in accordance with the provisions of the State Budget Law to proactively respond to natural disasters, floods, epidemics, and urgent tasks arising outside the budget estimate.

3. Prepare local government budgets at all levels:

The year 2014 was within the period for stabilizing local budgets from 2011 to 2015. The draft local budget for 2014 was prepared to ensure sufficient resources to implement existing systems and policies issued by competent authorities and in accordance with the provisions of the State Budget Law, contributing positively to the central government's efforts to promote economic development, maintain macroeconomic stability, accelerate economic restructuring, and ensure social welfare.

The draft local budgets at all levels for 2014, in addition to meeting the requirements set forth in Clauses 1 and 2 of Section III above, must also meet the following requirements:

a) The preparation of the draft revenue budget for the state on the local level:

Based on the objectives of the socio-economic development plan for the 2011-2015 period, the ability to achieve socio-economic targets and the state budget for 2013, forecasts of economic growth and revenue sources for 2014 for each industry and sector, the capacity and effectiveness of production and business activities of taxpayers on the local level, and new significant revenue sources arising on the local level, calculate accurately and comprehensively the revenue for each sector and tax type according to regulations. Analyze and evaluate specifically the impacts affecting the draft revenue budget for the state for 2014 for each locality, revenue sector, and tax item, focusing on evaluating the impact of revenue due to the implementation of policies extending, exempting, reducing taxes, and exempting land rental fees, and new revenue collection policies at various levels.

b) Preparing the draft expenditure budget for the local level:

Based on the local budget revenue share according to the tiered system, the ratio of revenue distribution between the central and local budgets, or the amount of supplementary balance transferred from the central budget to the local budget (if applicable) allocated stably for the 2011-2015 period, and the supplementary support amount according to the central budget's balancing capacity as stipulated in Decision No. 59/2010/QD-TTg dated September 30, 2010, of the Prime Minister on issuing the standard allocation of the regular expenditure budget of the state budget for 2011, determine the local budget revenue source. Within the scope of the determined local budget revenue, prepare the specific draft expenditure budget for the local level for each spending area, prioritizing resources to ensure spending areas such as education and training, healthcare, science and technology, culture and information, environmental public services, in accordance with the resolutions of the Party and the National Assembly.

Based on the local budget's balancing capacity, the implementation status of the draft budget for items supplemented with specific purposes from the central budget to the local budget in 2013, current policies and regulations, prepare the draft budget for implementing important projects and tasks, and the draft budget for supplementary funding with specific purposes from the central budget for 2014 as stipulated in Point b Clause 2 Article 29 of Decree No. 60/2003/NĐ-CP dated June 6, 2003, of the Government detailing and guiding the implementation of the State Budget Law. Among them, the supplementary budget for investment capital is determined based on criteria and support standards as stipulated in Decision No. 60/2010/QD-TTg dated September 30, 2010, of the Prime Minister on issuing principles, criteria, and standards for allocating investment development funds from the state budget for the 2011-2015 period; the supplementary budget for public service expenses is based on established policies and regulations to ensure the implementation of policies and regulations in 2014.

For land use fee revenue sources:

Localities prepare the draft land use fee revenue budget for 2014 ensuring alignment with the capability to implement approved land use plans, progress in land auctioning, land allocation, and payment of land use fees, and the anticipated land use fee revenue from projects facing financial difficulties and granted extensions for payment in 2014; simultaneously, develop corresponding investment construction project expenditure budgets to invest in economic and social infrastructure projects, relocation and resettlement projects, and land preparation for construction; proactively allocate the Land Development Fund according to Decree No. 69/2009/NĐ-CP dated August 13, 2009, of the Government; prioritize sufficient funding to expedite land surveying, establish land ownership data files, and issue land use right certificates in accordance with the Land Law and National Assembly resolutions.

For revenue from lottery operations:

Manage revenue and expenditure through the state budget (without being included in the state budget balance) and use it for investing in social welfare projects, focusing on education, healthcare, agricultural infrastructure, and rural areas as prescribed.

f) Prepare plans for raising and repaying (both principal and interest) for development investment in accordance with the provisions of the State Budget Law and Decree No. 60/2003/NĐ-CP dated June 6, 2003, of the Government detailing and guiding the implementation of the State Budget Law, ensuring that the balance of raised debt (including the projected amount for the year) does not exceed 30% of the local budget's draft investment construction expenditure (for Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, this figure should not exceed 100%).

4. In conjunction with the preparation of the state budget estimate for the year 2014, ministries, sectors, central agencies, localities, and units using the state budget shall proactively assess and analyze in detail the results achieved and weaknesses in the management and execution of revenue and expenditure in the year 2013; evaluate the situation of finalizing project investment capital for completed projects (projects that have been completed but not yet approved for finalization as of June 2013 and expected to be finalized by the end of 2013); focus on directing and organizing the work of finalizing accounts and inspecting, reviewing, and auditing the state budget for the year 2012 in accordance with the provisions of the State Budget Law; implement the public disclosure of the finalization of the state budget for the year 2011; conduct inspections, audits, and supervision of the management and use of development investment capital; address and resolve immediately from the stage of preparing the budget estimate any existing issues and violations in the allocation of budget expenditures that are inconsistent with the actual implementation and resolutions of the Party, National Assembly, Government, and People's Councils as identified and recommended by supervisory and auditing agencies in accordance with the provisions of the law.

B. ASSIGNMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION

1. The Ministry of Planning and Investment:

a) Take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance to calculate and determine various options and major balances as a basis for guiding ministries, sectors, and localities in formulating the Plan for Socio-Economic Development and the State Budget Estimate for the year 2014.

b) Organize guidance on the formulation and consolidation of the Plan for Socio-Economic Development incorporating reports on the implementation of Vietnam’s Millennium Development Goals, programs, objectives, orientations, and solutions for human resource development; the Investment Plan for Developing State Budget Resources and the Capital Plan for Government Bonds for the year 2014. Forecast the ability to mobilize resources and balance the investment plan capital for the year 2014 by sector and field for central ministries and agencies; the level of targeted supplementary capital for the year 2014 for ministries, sectors, and localities to proactively formulate and implement.

c) Take the lead and coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies to organize meetings with central ministries and agencies, People's Committees of provinces and centrally-administered cities regarding the Plan for Socio-Economic Development and the Investment Plan for Development for the year 2014.

d) Take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance to propose plans for allocating the Central Budget Investment Capital Plan and the Government Bond Capital Plan for the year 2014 to central ministries and agencies and localities.

đ) Take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and relevant ministries and agencies to compile the objectives, tasks, and plans for allocating the central budget expenditure estimate (including both investment and recurrent funds) to implement the national target program in 2014.

Take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and relevant ministries, sectors, and localities to consolidate the results of the mid-term review of the national target program implementation from 2011 to 2013 to report to the Government for submission to the National Assembly at its sixth session, Thirteenth National Assembly term; continue to study and amend the management and implementation mechanisms of the national target program for the remaining years of the 2011-2015 socio-economic development plan and for subsequent periods.

2. Ministry of Finance:

a) Guide ministries, sectors, and localities in assessing the implementation of the state budget revenue and expenditure estimates for the year 2013 and in formulating the state budget estimate for the year 2014.

b) Take the lead and coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies to organize meetings with central ministries and agencies, People's Committees of provinces and centrally-administered cities (in accordance with the State Budget Law) regarding the state budget estimate for the year 2014.

c) Take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment to propose plans for allocating regular expenditure of the central budget for the year 2014, and forecast the amount of targeted supplementary regular expenditure for the year 2014 from the central budget to local budgets.

d) Take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and related agencies to draft and consolidate the state budget estimate for the year 2014; plans for allocating the central budget for the year 2014 to submit to the Government for comments to be submitted to the National Assembly for decision.

đ) Coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and relevant ministries and agencies to compile plans for allocating the central budget expenditure estimate to implement the national target program in 2014.

Coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment to conduct a mid-term review of the national target program implementation from 2011 to 2013; amend the management and implementation mechanisms of the national target program for the remaining years of the 2011-2015 socio-economic development plan and for subsequent periods.

3. Ministries and agencies managing national target programs:

a) Conduct a mid-term review of the national target program implementation over three years (2011-2013), send the results to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance for consolidation and submission to the Government for reporting to the National Assembly at its sixth session, Thirteenth National Assembly term. Coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance to propose amendments to the management and implementation mechanisms of national target programs for the remaining years of the 2011-2015 socio-economic development plan and for subsequent periods.

b) Evaluate the implementation of the national target program in 2013; develop a plan for implementation and the state budget estimate for implementing the national target program in 2014.

Take the lead and coordinate with relevant units to propose tasks and plans for allocating the central budget expenditure estimate to implement the national target program in 2014 based on the total estimated funding levels announced by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance to the agencies managing national target programs, and send them to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance for consolidation.

4. Ministries, agencies equivalent to ministries, other central agencies, localities, organizations, units, and entities using state budget funds:

a) Take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance to formulate the Plan for Socio-Economic Development incorporating reports on the implementation of relevant Millennium Development Goals, programs, objectives, orientations, and solutions for human resource development, and the State Budget Estimate for the year 2014 for the respective sector or field under their responsibility.

b) Ministries and state agencies shall, within their functions, based on calculations of exploitable resources, establish goals, indicators, and plans for economic and social development in their respective sectors. They shall propose solutions, mechanisms, policies, and new systems, or suggest amendments and supplements to existing policies and systems to be promulgated before the budget preparation period (before July 20, 2013), and submit them to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, and relevant ministries and agencies as a basis for developing the Economic and Social Development Plan and the State Budget Estimate for 2014.

c) Agencies implementing national target programs at ministries, sectors, and localities shall prepare funding schemes for national target programs after receiving the preliminary budget notification from the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance sent to the program management agencies; simultaneously, they shall send these schemes to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance for consolidation into the central government's budget allocation plan for 2014 to be submitted to the competent authority for decision-making.

5. Provincial People's Committees under the central government:

a) Guide, organize, and direct provincial Departments of Planning and Investment and Departments of Finance to closely cooperate with other departments and agencies in building the Economic and Social Development Plan and the State Budget Estimate for 2014 at the local level, and bear responsibility before the Prime Minister for the development of the economic and social development plan and the budget estimate at their own level.

b) Organize the collection of opinions from organizations, mass organizations, and community groups on the draft Economic and Social Development Plan and the State Budget Estimate for 2014, incorporating reports on the assessment of Millennium Development Goals implementation within the province/city to achieve high consensus, and submit them to the competent authority for decision-making; simultaneously, report to central agencies as prescribed.

C. PROGRESS IN BUILDING THE PLAN

1. In June 2013, the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance shall guide the framework for the Economic and Social Development Plan; the investment plan for developing state budget sources and government bonds, and the estimated revenue and expenditure of the state budget for 2014.

2. After the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance provide guidance on the framework for the Economic and Social Development Plan and the estimated revenue and expenditure of the state budget for 2014, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, other central agencies, localities, and units using the state budget shall, based on the situation of the first six months of 2013, develop the Economic and Social Development Plan and the State Budget Estimate for 2014 and submit reports to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, and the National Audit Office by July 20, 2013.

3. In August 2013, the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance shall consolidate the Economic and Social Development Plan and the State Budget Estimate for 2014; simultaneously, propose distribution plans for the targets and state budget for 2014.

4. Before September 10, 2013, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, other central agencies, localities, and units using state budget investment funds shall incorporate comments from the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, and related agencies to complete the Economic and Social Development Plan and the State Budget Estimate for 2014 and submit them to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, and the National Audit Office.

5. In September 2013, the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance shall report to the Government the Economic and Social Development Plan and the State Budget Estimate for 2014 for the Government's review, completion, and submission to the National Assembly as prescribed by the State Budget Law.

6. Before October 31, 2013, the Ministry of Planning and Investment shall notify the estimated investment development plan for state budget sources and government bonds for 2014, and the estimated central budget allocation for national target programs to ministries, ministerial-level agencies, other central agencies, localities, and units using state budget funds.

7. Before November 20, 2013, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, other central agencies, localities, and units shall, based on the total amount of capital notified, prepare detailed project lists and specific capital allocations for each project using central government funds; detail the capital allocation plan for each component project under national target programs and submit them to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance.

8. Based on the Resolutions of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister:

a) Before November 20, 2013, allocate the Economic and Social Development Plan and the State Budget for 2014 to ministries, ministerial-level agencies, other central agencies, and localities.

b) Before December 15, 2013, allocate the investment development plan for state budget sources and government bonds.

9. The Ministry of Planning and Investment, based on the Decision allocating the plan by the Prime Minister:

a) Before November 30, 2013, allocate the detailed Economic and Social Development Plan for 2014 to ministries, ministerial-level agencies, other central agencies, and localities.

b) Before December 20, 2013, allocate the detailed investment development plan for state budget sources and government bonds to ministries and localities.

10. Before November 30, 2013, the Ministry of Finance shall allocate the detailed State Budget Estimate for 2014 to ministries, ministerial-level agencies, other central agencies, localities, agencies, units, and organizations.

11. Before December 10, 2013, localities shall decide and allocate the Economic and Social Development Plan and the State Budget (for detailed investment budget allocations within the local budget balance) to lower levels based on tasks assigned by the Prime Minister and guidelines from the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance. Ensure that the commune-level budget is decided before December 31, 2013.

12. Before December 31, 2013:

a) Budgetary units shall decide to allocate the budget revenue and expenditure estimates, and distribute them to subordinate units based on assigned tasks and guidelines from the competent authority.

b) The ministries, ministerial-level agencies, other central agencies, and localities shall notify the list and the amount of capital for investment from the central government budget and government bonds for the year 2014 to the units responsible for implementation.

The Prime Minister requests the ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government agencies, other central agencies, chairpersons of provincial people's committees under the central government, chairpersons of management boards, general directors of state-owned corporations and holding companies, heads of agencies, units, and organizations using the state budget to be responsible for organizing the implementation of this Directive./.