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The Government issued Decree No. 241/2026/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 165/2024/ND-CP dated December 26, 2024 of the Government detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Road Law and Article 77 of the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety. Download Amending regulations on decentralization of national highway management. In particular, Decree No. 241/2026/ND-CP amends and supplements Article 4 on decentralization of national highway management as follows: Article 4. Decentralization for Provincial Peoples Committees to manage national highways1. National highways under the road network planning are decentralized for management by Provincial Peoples Committees, including: a) National highways in provinces and centrally run cities, except national Highways specified in Clause 2 of this Article and Article 6 of this Decree;b) Works and items of road infrastructure attached to decentralized national highways specified in Points a and c of this Clause;c) Bridges, tunnels, and ferry terminals of the route specified in Point a of this Clause located in two provinces and centrally run cities, the Ministry of Construction consults with the relevant Provincial Peoples Committee, before deciding on a Provincial Peoples Committee to manage the project.2. National highways in the non-decentralized road network planning include: National Highway 1, Ho Chi Minh Road, national highways with technical grades of highways, national highways with special requirements to ensure national defense, security and other cases as decided by the Prime Minister. 3. Responsibilities of the Provincial Peoples Committee for decentralized national highways: a) Implement management, investment and construction according to approved planning; rights and responsibilities of the managing agency for the first project National highway construction investment is decentralized and managed in the area, except in cases where the investment project is assigned to the Peoples Committee of a province or centrally run city or another agency as the governing body according to relevant laws; exercise the rights and responsibilities of the competent authority according to the provisions of law for investment projects under the PPP method; exercise other rights and obligations regarding investment and construction according to the provisions of law; Authority for national highway construction projects specified in Clause 1 of this Article is implemented in the area of 02 or more provincial administrative units when assigned according to the provisions of law, as prescribed in Clause 8 of this Article; road traffic, laws on management and use of public assets and other relevant laws; c) Ensure synchronous traffic connection in terms of load, road size limits, vehicles participating in traffic on the national highway section under decentralized management with road routes in the road network planning and ensure convenient traffic connection with other roads in the region; d) Implement Clause 5 of this Article; dd) Periodically before June 10 and the date Every December 10, report to the Ministry of Construction on the status of investment in construction, management, operation, exploitation, use, maintenance, and protection of road infrastructure that is a decentralized national highway. 4. The Ministry of Construction is responsible for: a) Handing over the route specified in Clause 1 of this Article (including items attached to the route) and road infrastructure assets specified in Clause 1 of this Article to the Provincial Peoples Committee; b) Inspecting and directing Guide the Provincial Peoples Committee to invest, construct, manage, operate, exploit, maintain and ensure traffic safety on decentralized national highways; c) Preside and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance to develop a plan for allocating road use tolls collected through vehicles for cars (after deducting collection organization costs) to submit to the central budget for targeted supplementation of local budgets to manage and maintain national highways and other locally managed roads. Management methods and reports to the Government to submit to the National Assembly according to regulations. 5. Capital sources for investment, construction, management, operation, exploitation and maintenance of national highway infrastructure decentralized to the Provincial Peoples Committee for management are implemented in accordance with the provisions of Article 42 of the Road Law, provisions of law on state budget, public investment, investment in the public-private partnership method, management and use of public assets and other provisions of relevant laws. Peoples Committee Provincial people are responsible for allocating capital and resources to ensure implementation of the provisions in Points a, b and c, Clause 3 of this Article. 6. In case of not ensuring resources for investment, construction, management, operation, exploitation and maintenance of decentralized national highways or other necessary cases, the Provincial Peoples Committee shall send a written request to the Ministry of Construction to re-accept the decentralized national highway. 7. National highways decentralized to the Provincial Peoples Committee for management must be transferred road infrastructure assets according to the provisions of law on management and use of public assets. For the case specified in Clause 6 of this Article, the transfer of road infrastructure assets b.The transfer from the Provincial Peoples Committee to the Ministry of Construction for management is made after the Ministry of Construction has decided to re-accept the decentralized national highway.8. Responsibilities of provincial-level Peoples Committees for decentralized national highway management in case a provincial-level Peoples Committee is the managing agency of the investment project, the competent authority for investment projects using the ppp method
