National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man has just signed and issued a Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee stipulating a number of contents related to ensuring requirements for urban classification and standards of administrative units to implement the arrangement of district- and commune-level administrative units in the 2023-2025 period.
The new regulations, which will take effect from August 29, 2024, are expected to resolve some of the current problems and difficulties that agencies and localities are facing, in order to speed up implementation progress and reduce the time to complete the steps.
Used appropriate planning
According to the resolution, in case of arranging cities and towns with all or part of adjacent district-level administrative units, if the arrangement scope is consistent with the approved general planning of urban areas and surrounding areas, that planning can be used to classify urban areas.
In case of planning to form a town when implementing administrative unit arrangement, the approved general urban planning task or provincial planning in case the planning content clearly defines the scope of the town formed after the arrangement can be used to organize the review and evaluation of urban classification criteria as a basis for formulating a project to arrange district-level and commune-level administrative units of the locality.
In case the town expected to be formed after the rearrangement is located in the inner-city area identified in the approved general planning of type IV urban areas, that planning can be used to carry out urban classification for the town expected to be formed after the rearrangement.
According to Minister of Construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi, with the issuance of the resolution, the number of urban administrative units eligible to implement urban administrative unit arrangement is expected to support about more than 30 towns, 8 wards and 1 city.
The Resolution also clearly states that in the process of implementing urban classification procedures, reviewing urban classification criteria, and assessing the level of urban infrastructure development, if it is found that it is possible to meet the legal provisions on urban classification criteria and standards for urban infrastructure development level, it can be included in the plan for arranging administrative units at district and commune levels of the locality.
In particular, the preparation, appraisal and review of the project to arrange administrative units at district and commune levels are carried out in parallel with the implementation of procedures for urban classification (for cities, towns and townships), reviewing criteria for urban classification (for cities and towns), and assessing the level of urban infrastructure development (for areas planned to establish wards). This is considered to simplify procedures and processes.
Do not evaluate some criteria
The Resolution stipulates that when arranging district and commune-level administrative units in the 2023-2025 period, the provisions stated in this Resolution shall be applied to review and evaluate the compliance with the standards of urban administrative units formed after the arrangement.
Specifically, do not evaluate the standards on the structure and level of socio-economic development and the standards on the level of urban infrastructure development for wards and districts formed after the arrangement in the case of merging all or adjusting part of the natural area and population size of wards with wards, districts with districts;
Do not evaluate the standards of a subordinate ward when there is no change in the administrative unit boundary of that ward in the case of reorganization of district-level urban administrative units.
It is not necessary to conduct assessment and recognition of standards on the level of urban infrastructure development for towns planned to establish wards in cases of arranging district-level urban administrative units with expansion of inner cities and inner towns in accordance with approved urban planning;
In case a commune subject to rearrangement has been identified as belonging to the inner city or inner town area of a city or town as determined in the decision to recognize the urban type and can only be merged into a ward because it cannot be arranged with any other rural administrative unit, it is not necessary to evaluate the criteria for urban classification for the city or town and it is not necessary to evaluate the standards for the level of infrastructure development for the ward formed after the rearrangement; in case the decision to recognize the urban type does not clearly identify the inner city or inner town area, it is based on the approved general urban planning.
When evaluating the standards on the structure and level of socio-economic development for areas planned to establish districts and wards in administrative units without local government, the assessment of the budget revenue and expenditure balance indicator is not performed.
In case the arrangement project has been appraised before August 29, 2024, the provisions of this resolution shall be applied to supplement and complete the project dossier submitted to the Government and the National Assembly Standing Committee.
Agencies, organizations and localities that have conducted the review, assessment, classification of urban areas, surveys and appraisals of the project to arrange administrative units at district and commune levels for the period 2023 - 2025 in accordance with the provisions of this resolution shall continue to use the results to supplement and complete the project dossier to submit to competent authorities according to regulations.
Source: https://vov.vn/chinh-tri/go-vuong-de-tiep-tuc-sap-xep-don-vi-hanh-chinh-cap-huyen-xa-post1118572.vov
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