Hanoi issues new regulations on public property repair

The Hanoi City People's Committee has issued Decision No. 34/2025/QD-UBND on Regulations on establishing, approving the list and allocating funds for repairing public property works using regular expenditure funds from the Hanoi City budget.

According to the Decision, the 3 subjects of application are: (1) State agencies, Party agencies, Fatherland Front, socio- political organizations; (2) Social organizations, socio-professional organizations supported by the City budget according to the tasks assigned by the State; (3) Public service units.

This Decision does not apply to the following cases: (1) Repair of works in the field of national defense and security is carried out in accordance with the Government 's Decree regulating the management and use of the state budget for a number of activities in the field of national defense and security, amended and supplemented by Decree No. 01/2020/ND-CP dated May 14, 2020 of the Government and documents amending, supplementing or replacing;

(2) Repairing works in areas with specialized legal regulations (if any) on managing regular expenditures of the state budget for repairing public property works.

Regarding the establishment and approval of the list: Before June 30 every year, the agency, unit managing and using the construction or the unit assigned to perform the task of repairing the construction shall establish a list of projects to repair public property construction in the following planning year, including the following contents: overview of the current status of the construction; necessity, reason for implementation; project name, location; investment objectives and efficiency; expected investment scale; expected total investment; expected implementation time and progress; implementation capital, sent to the level I budget unit for synthesis, sent to the financial professional agency at the same level for comments.

The financial authority at the same level shall give opinions on the proposed list of agencies and units regarding the appropriateness of the implementation capital source and the total proposed budget with the ability to balance the budget.

The head of the level I budget unit approves and is responsible for the contents of the Decision approving his/her list with the following contents: necessity, reason for implementation; project name, location; investment objectives and efficiency; expected investment scale; expected total investment; investment capital source; expected implementation time and progress of the project and must ensure that the expected total investment of the approved project list is consistent with the budget balance capacity according to the opinion of the financial professional agency.

The People's Committees of communes and towns are responsible for organizing the preparation and approval of project lists according to management decentralization with the contents specified in Clause 3 of this Article.

For construction repairs costing less than VND 500 million, the unit performing the construction repair is responsible for implementing the provisions at Point a, Clause 4, Article 35 of Decree No. 06/2021/ND-CP dated January 26, 2021 of the Government detailing a number of contents on quality management, construction and maintenance of construction works and documents amending, supplementing, replacing, not making a list according to the provisions in Clause 1, Clause 2, Clause 3 of this Article.

Regarding the preparation, allocation and assignment of budget estimates: At the time of preparing the annual budget estimate, based on the guidance on preparing the state budget estimate of the competent authority, the unit implementing the construction repair shall prepare the budget estimate for the project implementation of the planning year, send it to the level I budget unit for synthesis, and send it to the specialized financial agency at the same level to submit to the competent authority according to the provisions of the law on the state budget.

Documents attached to the budget estimate include: Decision approving the list; explanation of the content and expected volume of work to be performed; implementation time; budget estimate for the planning year; other relevant records and documents.

At the time the specialized financial agency or the financial department of the commune or town synthesizes and reports to the People's Committees at all levels to submit to the People's Councils at the same level for decision and budget allocation according to the provisions of the State Budget Law.

The project must ensure the following document conditions: (1) In case of repairing works with a cost of 500 million VND or more: there must be a Decision approving the list and estimated project preparation costs approved by a competent authority in accordance with legal regulations for project preparation costs; there must be a Decision approving the project by a competent authority in accordance with project implementation costs; (2) In case of repairing works with a cost of less than 500 million VND: there must be a repair plan and estimated repair costs approved in accordance with regulations.

Regarding the arrangement of funds from fee revenue sources retained according to the prescribed regime for regular expenditure; other legal sources of funds: The arrangement of funds is decided by the Head of the responsible agency or unit according to the legal provisions on the autonomy regime of state administrative agencies; the autonomy mechanism of public service units and relevant legal provisions.

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