Part 2: Unleashing land resources

The 2024 Land Law, which takes effect from August 1, 2024, 5 months earlier than the previously decided date (January 1, 2025), is in line with the Party's policy, helping to promptly overcome existing problems and limitations, especially in land valuation, land recovery, compensation, resettlement support, while creating a synchronous legal corridor and unblocking land resources.

Construction of the southern axis road of Thai Binh Economic Zone, section passing through Kien Xuong and Tien Hai districts.

Inheriting the 2013 Land Law

Lawyer Nguyen Duc Long, Thai Binh Province Lawyers Association, said: The 2024 Land Law is a major law, which has been prepared very carefully, scientifically, and thoroughly by the Government and organized many thematic meetings. The National Assembly Standing Committee has commented on the draft Law at 7 meetings; the National Assembly considered and approved it according to the 4-session process. The Law was built on the basis of a thorough summary of the implementation of the 2013 Land Law, solving problems arising from practice, closely following and fully institutionalizing the policies and orientations in the Documents of the 13th National Party Congress, resolutions and conclusions of the Party and the National Assembly; institutionalize 3 general goals, 6 specific goals, 6 groups of solutions and 8 major policy groups in Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW of the Central Executive Committee on "Continuing to innovate and perfect institutions and policies, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of land management and use, creating momentum to turn our country into a developed country with high income". The process of perfecting the Law has invested a lot of effort and intelligence, not only of agencies directly involved in the legislative process but also with the participation of all agencies in the political system and the whole society. Therefore, it can be affirmed that the 2024 Land Law is a good quality legal document, inheriting and making an important step forward compared to the 2013 Land Law. This is a law that has a profound impact on almost all areas of life, affecting all agencies, organizations, businesses and people. Therefore, the Law coming into force will make an important contribution to creating a more complete, perfect and suitable legal foundation in continuing to concretize the regime of public ownership of land as stipulated in the 2013 Constitution; enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of land management and use. The promulgation and effective implementation of the Law will be one of the important tools to help unlock land resources, ensure a better harmony of interests between people, businesses and the State, contributing to making land an important resource to promote the process of socio-economic development, strengthening national defense and security in the coming period.

Many new points

Mr. Le Van Binh, Deputy Director of the Department of Land, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, said: The 2024 Land Law has undergone 9 amendments and supplements, including 16 chapters and 260 articles; of which, 180/212 articles of the 2013 Land Law were amended and supplemented and 78 new articles were added. Compared to the 2013 Land Law, the 2024 Land Law has many new and breakthrough points, meeting the requirements of synchronously perfecting policies and laws on land management and use in accordance with the institution of developing a socialist-oriented market economy; resolving overlapping and conflicting situations in policies and laws related to land. At the same time, the 2024 Land Law establishes a modern, transparent and effective land management system, promotes administrative procedure reform, digital transformation, and improves the land access index; promote democracy, limit land-related complaints; contribute to promoting the commercialization of land use rights, develop a transparent real estate market..., creating the driving force to turn our country into a developed country with high income. The 2024 Land Law clearly stipulates the model of the national land information system as centralized, unified from central to local levels, synchronous, multi-purpose and interconnected nationwide. Therefore, the construction and completion of the national land database will create efficiency in the use of land resources in management, operation, synthesis as well as reasonable and sustainable exploitation for state agencies, businesses and people.

Agricultural land in Hong Minh commune (Hung Ha).

According to Mr. Nguyen Van Truong, Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment: The 2024 Land Law specifically stipulates the time for determining land prices, the time for calculating land use fees and land rents for each case of land allocation, land lease, permission to change land use purposes, land use extension, change of land use form, and adjustment of land allocation and land lease decisions that change the area, land use purpose, and land use term.

Accordingly, the People's Committee at the competent level must issue a decision on specific land prices within no more than 180 days from the time of determining land prices. In cases where land prices in the land price table are applied to calculate land use fees and land rents, the People's Committee at the competent level must record land prices in decisions on land allocation, land lease, permission to change land use purposes, land use extension, land use term adjustment, and land use form change. At the same time, the authority to decide on specific land prices shall be delegated to the Chairman of the People's Committee at the district level to decide on specific land prices in cases of land allocation, land lease, permission to change land use purposes, recognition of land use rights, land use extension, land use term adjustment, determination of starting prices for auctions of land use rights for land allocation, land lease, adjustment of detailed construction planning, and land recovery under the authority of the People's Committee at the district level.

Mr. Pham Ngoc Ke, Chairman of Tien Hai District People's Committee, said: The 2024 Land Law with many new, important breakthrough contents contributes to perfecting legal policies, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of land management and use such as: planning, land use plans; recovery, compensation, resettlement support; land allocation, land lease, permission to change land use purposes; land finance, land prices; land registration, granting certificates of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land; building information systems and databases on land; promoting decentralization and delegation of powers; reforming administrative procedures in the land sector, enhancing the responsibility of local authorities at all levels in land management and use... Therefore, to ensure the conditions for implementing the 2024 Land Law and quickly bringing the Law into life, the District People's Committee has directed the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to preside over and develop a plan to coordinate with relevant departments, branches and sectors to disseminate and educate on land law, raise awareness of land law for agencies, organizations, households and individuals.

Mr. Pham Trung Kien, Deputy Head of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Thai Thuy district

In terms of innovation policy, land has been contributing a great deal of resources to socio-economic development. State management of land in the district has gradually become routine. Awareness of compliance with land laws by organizations, households and individuals using land has been increasingly improved. In order for the Law to soon come into life, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment has proactively advised the District People's Committee to promote propaganda and implementation in accordance with reality.

Mr. Tran Quang Dat, Vice Chairman of Dong Xa Commune People's Committee (Dong Hung)

In the agricultural sector, the 2024 Land Law has expanded the subjects and limits of receiving the transfer of agricultural land use rights of individuals, specifically: The limit of receiving the transfer of agricultural land use rights of individuals is not more than 15 times the limit of agricultural land allocation of individuals for each type of land specified in Clauses 1, 2 and 3, Article 176 of the 2024 Land Law. Individuals who do not directly produce agriculture are still allowed to receive the transfer of rice-growing land. These are new and very important points for localities to develop green - clean - safe agriculture; contributing to the comprehensive development of the local economy.

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Minh Nguyet

Source: https://baothaibinh.com.vn/tin-tuc/4/208607/ky-2-khoi-thong-nguon-luc-dat-dai