Conditions for changing the purpose of using rice-growing land and forest land for project implementation
Decree 12/2024/ND-CP specifically stipulates the conditions and criteria for allowing the conversion of rice-growing land, protective forest land, and special-use forest land to other purposes to implement investment projects.
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Specifically, Decree 12/2024/ND-CP amends and supplements Clause 9, Article 1 of Decree 10/2023/ND-CP dated April 3, 2023 on conditions and criteria for allowing the conversion of the purpose of using rice-growing land, protective forest land, and special-use forest land to other purposes to implement investment projects:
1. Have an investment project approved in principle or granted an investment registration certificate in accordance with the provisions of investment law.
2. In accordance with the district-level land use planning, the investment project is included in the list of annual district-level land use plans approved in accordance with the provisions of law.
3. Have a plan for alternative forest planting or a document completing the responsibility to pay for alternative forest planting according to the provisions of the law on forestry in cases of changing the purpose of using protective forest land or special-use forest land to other purposes, have a plan for using the topsoil layer according to the provisions of the law on cultivation in cases of changing the purpose of using specialized rice-growing land to other purposes.
4. Have a preliminary environmental impact assessment, environmental impact assessment according to regulations of law on environmental protection (if any).
5. The competent authority or person appraising and approving the policy of changing the purpose of use of protective forest land, special-use forest land, and rice-growing land to other purposes shall only be responsible for the contents in Clauses 2 and 3 of this Article, and shall not be responsible for other contents that have been appraised, approved, decided, ratified or resolved by the competent authority or person before.
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