Early completion of draft Circular on economic norms

This draft Circular applies to state agencies, organizations and individuals involved in the management, development and implementation of economic and technical norms for public career services using the state budget in the press field under the state management of the Ministry of Information and Communications.

General principles for building economic and technical standards in the field of journalism

The draft clearly states the general principles for establishing economic and technical norms for public career services in the press sector using the state budget:

Ensure correct and sufficient calculation of necessary costs to complete a public service product that meets criteria, standards and quality according to current regulations.

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Norms are built on the basis of practical production and service organization; based on scientific and technological achievements, ensuring stability over a certain period of time, in accordance with practical requirements; when there are changes in technology, legal regulations or when they are no longer suitable for practical requirements, norms must be adjusted or newly built.

The standards for similar work steps between fields under the state management of the Ministry of Information and Communications must ensure consistency.

Meet the general structural requirements of various economic and technical norms.

The objective is to establish economic and technical norms as a basis for establishing prices (unit prices) for public career services in the press sector. Economic and technical norms serve as a basis for competent authorities to determine prices for public service products in the press sector under the State management of the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Press agencies develop and submit for promulgation economic and technical norms to serve the purpose of improving the operational efficiency of press agencies and to receive orders for public career services ordered by State agencies. This is the basis for developing and implementing plans, managing economics, finance and quality in the operations of public service units providing press services using the State budget; promoting socialization in the provision of public career services in the press field.

Classification of economic and technical norms in the field of journalism

For public career services using the central budget: central press agencies organize the development of economic and technical norms to submit to the competent authority for appraisal and approval or authorize approval and issuance for implementation by that press agency.

For public career services using local budgets: Based on the list of public career services issued by competent authorities at the local level, the Provincial People's Committee organizes the development of economic and technical norms and promulgates them for application to local press agencies.

Authority to prescribe economic and technical norms in the field of journalism

The Ministry of Information and Communications develops a Circular guiding the Regulations on the process of developing, appraising and promulgating economic and technical norms for public career services using the state budget in the press sector under the state management of the Ministry of Information and Communications; regulating economic and technical norms for public career services using the state budget in the press sector for press agencies under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Central press agencies shall organize the development of economic and technical norms according to the instructions submitted to the competent authority for appraisal and approval or authorized approval and promulgation for implementation by that press agency. Central press agencies shall organize appraisal and approval or authorized approval and promulgation of norms according to the instructions of this Circular;

People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities prescribe economic and technical norms for public career services in the field of journalism, within the scope of local management, using local budgets.

Readers can read the full draft and give comments on the draft of the Ministry of Information and Communications here.

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