Resolution No. 26/2012/QH13 on continuing to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of implementing policies and laws on public investment for agriculture, farmers, and rural areas.

RESOLUTION
On continuing to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of implementing policies and laws in handling citizens' complaints and denunciations regarding administrative decisions on land
public investment law for agriculture, farmers, and rural areas

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OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM

BASED ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM IN 1992 AS AMENDED AND COMPLEMENTED BY RESOLUTION NO. 51/2001/QH10;

Pursuant to the Law on the Supervisory Activities of the National Assembly No. 05/2003/QH11;

Pursuant to Resolution No. 15/2011/QH13 on the Supervision Program of the National Assembly in 2012;

Based on the Report on the Results of Supervision No. 160/BC-UBTVQH13 dated May 31, 2012, of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly regarding the implementation of policies and laws on public investment for agriculture, farmers, and rural areas, and the opinions of the National Assembly deputies;

RESOLUTION:

Article 1

The National Assembly agrees with the contents of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly's report on the supervision results concerning the implementation of policies and laws on public investment for agriculture, farmers, and rural areas. The implementation of policies and laws and the allocation of additional annual public investment funds for agriculture, farmers, and rural areas have had positive impacts on economic and social development, synchronized infrastructure development, structural economic transformation linked with labor structure changes in agriculture, increased productivity, created more jobs, improved material and spiritual living standards of farmers, contributed to poverty reduction, ensured political security, social order, and safety, and gradually changed the appearance of rural areas towards modernization.

Alongside the achievements that have been attained, there are still limitations and weaknesses that need to be promptly addressed. Legal regulations in this field are still unstable, not fully coordinated, with overlapping provisions that are not in line with reality. Although receiving State attention, the resources invested in agriculture, farmers, and rural areas have not met the needs and failed to mobilize many social resources. There is still a situation of scattered and prolonged investment, waste, and low efficiency in capital utilization. The quality of planning remains limited, lacking coordination and unity among various types of plans, and not closely tied to available resources. Integrating programs and projects faces many obstacles. Forms of agricultural and rural production organization are slow to innovate. Incentive policies are not sufficiently attractive and have not attracted many businesses to invest in rural areas.

Article 2

Continue to improve policies and laws and enhance the effectiveness of public investment for agriculture, farmers, and rural areas, focusing on implementing the following contents:

1. Promptly promulgate the Law on Public Investment, the Law on Government Procurement, the Law on Planning, the Law on Water Resources, the Law on Animal Health, the Law on Employment. Amend and supplement the Land Law, the Law on Cooperatives, the Law on Vocational Training, the Law on Fisheries. Review, amend, and supplement legal provisions on state budget, bidding, investment, enterprises, construction, compensation, support, and resettlement, agricultural insurance, vocational training, housing, environmental sanitation, supervisory activities.

2. Increase public investment from the state budget for agriculture, farmers, and rural areas in accordance with the spirit of Resolution No. 7 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam at its 7th Plenum of the 10th term, ensuring that the capital in the next five years is twice that of the previous five years. Increase public investment for the development of agriculture and rural areas in key regions, high-value agricultural products with competitive advantages, ensuring national food security, poor provinces, mountainous provinces, localities with difficult conditions to attract investment from other sources, and poor districts under Resolution 30a and Program 135 of the Government.

3. Priority objectives:

Focus on investing in research and application of science and technology in agriculture, especially high-tech, biotechnology, post-harvest processing technology, seed production for crops and livestock, aquaculture seeds; promptly complete the basic water management system, irrigation canals, serving two-crop rice cultivation, industrial and raw material crop areas, concentrated aquaculture; build and consolidate river dykes, sea dykes, embankments, anchorage areas, typhoon shelters, salinity control structures, flood discharge, sweet water retention, drainage works adapting to climate change and rising sea levels; complete the national natural disaster warning system; develop a synchronized rural transportation system ensuring connectivity with the country's main transportation network and major economic centers; develop power infrastructure sufficient for production and daily life in rural areas. Develop appropriate mechanisms and policies for the development of forest raw material zones, investment in planting and protecting forests, particularly protective forests and headwater forests; review land funds of agricultural and forestry companies, forest management boards that are not effectively utilized to plan their allocation to businesses and people for forest planting, creating new impetus for forest protection and development.

Review, amend, and supplement investment attraction policies, especially land use fees, land lease fees, land use purpose conversion taxes, corporate income tax for businesses and agricultural cooperatives with investment projects in agriculture and rural areas, particularly projects in remote, mountainous, border, island, and economically disadvantaged areas, projects applying high technology, projects developing high-value-added agricultural product processing technologies. Attract participation from various economic sectors in some projects heavily reliant on state budgets such as infrastructure projects for aquaculture, fish ports, fish landing sites, rural clean water supply, and environmental treatment projects. Concentrate resources and mobilize internal strength within the population to build new rural areas; implement the integration of various resources and national target programs in the locality. Review and adjust some new rural criteria and other target programs to suit different regional and local economic and social conditions.

Develop the rural credit network, increase the number of commercial bank transaction points in rural areas. Encourage banks and credit organizations to provide loans with preferential mechanisms for the agricultural sector, especially increasing the loan amount and term to match the production cycle of each entity and type of crop or livestock. Continue to improve procedures so that borrowers can access capital more easily. Increase funding for the Social Policy Bank to raise the loan amount, particularly for animal husbandry; expand the target group of near-poor households eligible for loans from the Social Policy Bank, and develop additional industries in rural areas.

Establish incentive policies and measures to attract scientists in high-tech fields to work in agriculture, young cadres with capabilities and qualifications to work in rural areas; focus on training and enhancing cadres responsible for building new rural areas, especially those directly implementing tasks at the grassroots level. Organize vocational training for rural laborers in accordance with local economic and social development plans, regions, and closely align with job requirements. Improve the quality of vocational training, especially in remote, mountainous, and economically disadvantaged areas.

Study and reform support policies for poor and near-poor households to achieve sustainable poverty reduction. Ensure state budget funds for implementing policies in ethnic minority and mountainous regions, clearly defining support targets and prioritizing state budget resources for infrastructure development. Implement special preferential policies for border and island areas to ensure residents' peace of mind and protect the country's borderlands.

Encourage all entities to participate in voluntary social insurance, continue supporting near-poor households, and expand assistance for low-income individuals in rural areas to join health insurance according to the universal health insurance roadmap. Conduct a mid-term review of the pilot agricultural insurance program to draw lessons and enhance effectiveness in the future.

4. Reform and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of management and implementation of public investment.

Allocate capital investment according to the framework plan or three-to-five-year plan and based on the overall planning for agricultural production development consistent with the socio-economic development strategy until 2020; prioritize key projects concerning economic and social infrastructure with significant impacts on industry and sector development and certain areas within the 3.812 million hectares of rice-growing land, urgent projects for disaster prevention, mitigation, and adaptation to climate change.

Review National Target Programs, concentrate management at the central level, and delegate maximum authority to provinces and centrally-administered cities; issue coordination regulations, integrate programs clearly identifying beneficiaries, main activities, management methods, leading agencies, coordinating bodies, monitoring mechanisms, and evaluation procedures.

Expand decentralization, grant local authorities autonomy to allocate capital for specific projects and works according to specified criteria. Strengthen management, inspection, supervision, and enforcement of public investment projects for agriculture, farmers, and rural areas; promptly and strictly handle violations in public investment for agriculture, farmers, and rural areas. Establish a national information system for public investment, publicly disclose information on public investment activities, including those for agriculture, farmers, and rural areas.

Article 3

The Government shall organize the implementation of this Resolution in accordance with its functions, tasks, and powers, and report annually to the National Assembly by 2015.

The Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the National Ethnic Council, the Committees of the National Assembly, Delegations of the National Assembly, National Assembly deputies, People's Councils shall supervise the implementation of this Resolution in accordance with their functions, tasks, and powers.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, member organizations of the Front, within their respective functions and powers, shall participate in supervision and propaganda, mobilizing the people to implement this Resolution.

This Resolution was adopted by the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the 13th session, third meeting, on June 21, 2012.