TPO - The Ministry of Planning and Investment proposed applying special investment procedures for high-tech projects, granting licenses within just 15 days.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) is seeking opinions on amending and supplementing four laws related to investment, including the Law on Planning, the Law on Investment, the Law on Public-Private Partnership Investment, and the Law on Bidding.
In the Investment Law, the new issue raised in the draft is the proposal for high-tech investment projects to have special investment procedures with short procedures, and licensing within 15 days.
Projects proposed to apply special procedures include high-tech projects (research and development centers; semiconductors, chips, new technology batteries), investments in industrial parks, export processing zones, high-tech zones and functional areas in economic zones.
According to the drafting agency, attracting strategic investors in a number of fields has been applied in the pilot resolutions on specific mechanisms and policies in a number of localities. However, the above projects are still implemented according to normal investment procedures in accordance with the provisions of the law on investment, bidding, land, construction, environment, fire prevention and fighting, etc.
In reality, the time to carry out procedures related to land, construction, environment, technology transfer, fire prevention and fighting often takes a long time. Each procedure has its own requirements regarding documents, procedures and time, some procedures require many steps (construction procedures), some procedures must be carried out sequentially, the result of one procedure is the input of another procedure. On average, the time to fully carry out the above procedures lasts from about 250 - 350 days. In reality, the time to carry out the procedures may be longer due to delays in completing related documents and records.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment also proposed that investment projects registered under special procedures do not have to carry out procedures to obtain licenses, approvals, consents, permits, confirmations and other requirements in the fields of construction, environmental protection, technology transfer, fire prevention and fighting.
Investors are responsible for fully implementing commitments in accordance with requirements on standards and technical regulations as prescribed by law on construction, environmental protection, technology transfer, fire prevention and fighting.
In addition, the Ministry of Planning and Investment also proposed two new policies related to investment, including promoting decentralization of investment approval to provincial People's Committees; supplementing regulations on the establishment of investment support funds and amending regulations on project termination.
The Prime Minister's delegation of investment approval authority to the provincial People's Committee is proposed for projects on construction and business of infrastructure of industrial parks; investment projects on construction of new ports and port areas with investment capital of VND 2,300 billion or less belonging to special seaports.
Based on the opinions of enterprises and comments on the amendment and supplementation of a number of articles of the Investment Law, the Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) stated that these changes are a breakthrough and a major reform in investment project implementation procedures and will significantly shorten the project implementation time. However, this regulation is related to many legal documents in the fields of land, construction, technology transfer, environmental protection, fire prevention and fighting, etc.
The draft regulation exempts relevant procedures, but does not simultaneously amend regulations in legal documents on construction, technology transfer, environmental protection, fire prevention and fighting, etc., which may lead to confusion and inconsistency in application.
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