Building specific mechanisms and policies to remove obstacles in exploiting construction materials

In the process of drafting the Government's resolution on specific mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties in implementing the Law on Geology and Minerals in 2024, Da Nang city has proposed and recommended many contents to remove obstacles in exploiting minerals as common construction materials...

Da Nang City has proposed adding several provisions to the draft resolution of the Government to address difficulties and obstacles in the exploration, demarcation, and exploitation of mineral resources used as common construction materials. (Photo: HOANG HIEP)

Adjust to reality

Given the urgent need for common construction materials to meet the demands of key infrastructure projects, the application of the 2024 Law on Geology and Minerals in many provinces and cities faces some difficulties, requiring specific mechanisms and policies to overcome them.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment , the development and promulgation of the Government's resolution on specific mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties in implementing the Law on Geology and Minerals is in line with the spirit of Resolution No. 206/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly on the mechanism for handling difficulties and obstacles due to legal regulations. This is an urgent and important issue at the local level, which needs to be resolved soon to speed up the procedures for implementing development investment projects, key projects that need to start construction and contribute to promoting socio-economic development.

Da Nang City has proposed the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (the agency in charge of drafting the above-mentioned Government resolution) to consider a number of solutions to address the shortage of sand, gravel, stone, and soil for common construction materials. For example: removing obstacles in riverbed sand and gravel exploration; demarcating a number of mining areas that do not auction mineral exploitation rights to quickly grant exploitation licenses, immediately providing common construction materials for public investment projects...

Given the recent situation where some mineral mines were won through auctions for unusually high prices, the city also requested the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to allow regulations limiting the number of auction rounds in the auction regulations; and regulations on deposit amounts...

Head of the Minerals Department (Department of Agriculture and Environment) Nguyen Hong Song said that the city proposed to improve the regulations on auctioning mineral exploitation rights by adding regulations on deposit, capacity requirements of auction participants, sanctions for handling cases of "deposit abandonment" after winning the auction...

At the same time, develop a plan to auction mineral exploitation rights for mineral mines under the licensing authority of the locality in accordance with actual usage needs and organize the auction in accordance with the provisions of law with a reasonable deposit amount, at the highest level as prescribed. Thereby, in order to select a unit that is truly capable, experienced and uses advanced, modern technology to participate in mineral exploitation activities and perform well in environmental protection work, overcoming the situation of "abandoning deposits" after winning the auction.

Da Nang City is implementing many solutions to provide common building materials for construction activities. Photo: HOANG HIEP

Close-up recommendations

The Department of Agriculture and Environment said that on August 22, 2025, the City People's Committee continued to issue Report No. 84/BC-UBND to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, proposing a number of solutions to remove difficulties and obstacles when implementing legal regulations in the field of geology and minerals. In addition, it recommended reducing a number of documents and procedures related to licensing the exploitation of minerals for common construction materials related to public investment projects...

Most of Da Nang's proposals have been incorporated into the draft resolution of the Government on specific mechanisms and policies to address difficulties in implementing the Law on Geology and Minerals.

Then, on September 4, the City People's Committee continued to propose the Government, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment... to add subjects to be considered for granting certificates of registration for mineral recovery in the cases specified in Point b and Point d, Clause 1, Article 75 of the Law on Geology and Minerals 2024, including: construction contractors or organizations and individuals that meet the conditions prescribed by law on geology and minerals.

Da Nang makes this recommendation because in reality, in the city, many investors, developers or land users do not have the need to recover excess minerals (mostly group IV minerals) during the implementation of construction investment projects. Meanwhile, the subjects that the city proposed to add to the draft resolution of the Government have the need to recover excess minerals to provide common construction materials for projects.

The City People's Committee proposed to supplement regulations on areas with minerals that have been explored and identified as sources of raw materials to supply and supplement factories that are currently processing or using minerals, which have been identified and updated in the planning for exploration, exploitation, processing and use of minerals (planning for minerals group 1, planning for minerals group II, provincial planning for minerals group III).

This proposal aims to alleviate the difficulties in sourcing raw materials for tunnel kiln brick factories in the city, thus supporting their production activities.

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