For planning to truly be an effective tool in development planning and creating development space

(laichau.gov.vn) Continuing the agenda of the 10th session, this morning (November 7), the National Assembly listened to a report on the draft Law on Planning (amended).

Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang said the purpose of building and promulgating the law is to build a unified, streamlined, and effective national planning system.

Presenting the draft law, Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang said that the purpose of developing and promulgating the law is to build a unified, streamlined, and effective national planning system; perfecting plans after rearranging administrative units with a long-term vision, freeing up resources, and clearing bottlenecks.

Simultaneously simplify processes and procedures; strive to reduce at least 30% of procedures. Decentralize, delegate authority and assign tasks reasonably, combined with strengthening inspection, supervision and strict control of power. Enhance the application of science and technology; resolve difficulties and obstacles in practice and overcome shortcomings of legal regulations on planning.

In addition, the Law on Planning is built with a general scope of regulation for all types of development planning nationwide; the legal system on planning is built synchronously and consistently with relevant laws so that planning is truly an effective tool of the State in planning development and creating development space.

The Law is built on the viewpoint of ensuring constitutionality, legality, and proper institutionalization of the Party and State's policies and guidelines on national development in the new period; ensuring conformity with the two-level local government organization model.

Only framework issues of principle under the authority of the National Assembly are regulated in the Law; practical issues that frequently change are assigned to the Government, ministries, branches and localities to regulate.

The Draft Law on Planning (amended) includes 6 chapters with 57 articles and 1 appendix, with many new points.

Specifically, the draft law has added general principles for detailed sector planning such as: Requirements, general principles for planning activities; relationship with national planning, regional planning, provincial planning. Planning documents; planning announcement; storage and sharing of information, planning database. Specialized laws will provide detailed and specific regulations on the establishment, appraisal, approval, announcement, adjustment and content of detailed sector planning, urban and rural planning.

Complete regulations on the planning system including: National planning; regional planning; provincial planning; detailed sectoral planning; urban and rural planning; planning of special administrative-economic units as prescribed by the National Assembly.

Building relationships between plans according to the principle: Lower plans must be consistent with higher plans; detailed sectoral plans must be consistent with the plans that they specify and ensure harmony with the spatial arrangement and distribution orientation of related regional plans; provincial plans must be consistent with national plans, regional plans, and related sectoral detailed plans;

Urban and rural planning must be consistent with provincial planning and detailed sector planning.

Supplementing regulations on handling conflicts between plans including: Handling conflicts between plans approved by different levels; handling conflicts between regional plans, provincial plans and sectoral plans and detailed sectoral plans; handling conflicts between plans at the same level.

Regulations on handling conflicts between plans are built to ensure that investment projects can be implemented in the shortest time after determining the applicable plan, promptly meeting practical requirements.

The list of planning has been reviewed and the number of plans has been reduced according to the principle of "one agency performing many tasks, one task is assigned to only one agency to preside over and take primary responsibility". Accordingly, the number of sectoral plans has been reduced from 78 types of plans to 49 plans (a decrease of 37%).

At the same time, the draft law also emphasizes the strengthening of decentralization and delegation of power in planning activities. Specifically, regarding the authority to organize planning: The Government organizes the preparation of national master plans. Ministries organize the preparation of national marine spatial plans, national land use plans, sectoral plans and regional plans. Provincial People's Committees organize the preparation of provincial-level plans.

Regarding the authority to decide and approve planning: The National Assembly decides on the national master plan. Decentralizes the Prime Minister to approve the national marine spatial planning, national land use planning and regional planning. The authority to approve sectoral planning is implemented according to Government regulations to ensure flexibility in the Government's direction and administration. The Minister approves detailed sectoral planning. Decentralizes the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to approve provincial planning...

To ensure post-inspection and quality of planning content; promptly detect overlapping and contradictory content; limit arbitrary planning adjustments; and enhance accountability of agencies after decentralizing planning approval authority, the Draft Law adds provisions on planning monitoring, inspection, and review activities.

Regarding the simplification of processes and procedures in planning activities, the draft law supplements regulations allowing plans to be prepared simultaneously and the order of planning approval; stipulates special cases where lower-level plans are approved first to implement urgent projects and tasks.

Eliminate the regulation on "planning tasks" and switch to the form of "planning outline" with simpler content. Allow plans to be adjusted simultaneously according to the normal order and procedures or according to the shortened order and procedures with specific principles and criteria. For planning adjustments according to the normal order, the chairman of the appraisal council decides on the form of operation of the Planning Appraisal Council, can hold a council meeting or collect written appraisal opinions.

At the same time, the Draft Law also amends the provisions on the basis for planning adjustment to ensure feasibility, more clearly distinguishing the basis for planning adjustment according to normal procedures from planning adjustment according to shortened procedures to ensure strictness when planning approval authority has been thoroughly decentralized.

Regarding the removal of difficulties and obstacles related to the assessment of the conformity of investment projects with planning, the draft law supplements the general principles on the assessment of the conformity of projects with planning, including: Regulations on the type of planning used as the basis for assessment at 2 stages: appraisal of investment policy and project decision. The assessment of the conformity of projects with detailed sectoral planning; land use planning and urban or rural planning shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws. For special public investment projects, urgent projects, and urgent tasks, the competent authority deciding on project investment is allowed to decide on the contents of the investment decision that are different from the relevant planning. Regulations on the assessment of the conformity of projects when the contents of planning related to the project conflict with each other are based on the provisions on the relationship between types of planning...

In addition to the above contents, the Draft Law on Planning (amended) has completed the regulations on planning period, time limit for planning announcement, provision of information and data on planning, construction and management, operation of information system and national database on planning; planning diagrams and maps; costs for foreign consultants...

Updated on November 7, 2025

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