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The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment is collecting comments on the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Environmental Protection. Download Create a driving force to strongly promote green economic development and circular economy According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Vietnam has many development opportunities thanks to its enhanced international position, expanded strategic partner network and the ability to attract foreign investment. Digital transformation and green transformation trends create favorable conditions to achieve the goal of industrialization by 2030. However, rapid development also increases pressure on the environment, including domestic pollution and the risk of cross-border pollution, import of outdated technology and waste. The context of climate change is increasingly serious along with the implementation of the Paris Agreement, posing the need to transition to a low-carbon development model and increase the use of renewable energy. International practice shows that if environmental protection is not paid attention to, environmental costs will far exceed economic benefits. Warnings show that if GDP increases rapidly without environmental control, pollution levels can increase many times, causing economic damage and directly affecting public health. Vietnam is facing a great opportunity to transform its development model towards green and sustainable, but at the same time faces many environmental, technological and institutional challenges. If there is no timely and effective solution, the risk of becoming a recipient of outdated, highly polluting technology is present; On the contrary, if we make good use of new trends, Vietnam can improve its competitiveness and develop sustainably in the long term. Creating a driving force to strongly promote green economic development. Therefore, studying amendments and supplements to the Law on Environmental Protection in 2020 is necessary to continue to strongly reform administrative procedures, especially procedures for environmental impact assessment (EIA), environmental permits (GPMT), ensuring substantive and effective control of projects, facilities with high risk of negative impacts on the environment, simplify procedures, and promote investment projects for socio-economic development. Create a strong and effective legal foundation for digital transformation in environmental management, creating a driving force to strongly promote the development of green economy and circular economy in Vietnam, with a focus on perfecting regulations on building and operating the national environmental management digital platform, integrating environmental monitoring data and emission inventories; regulations on waste management with the view that waste is a resource, must be strictly managed, increase recycling, reuse, reduce generation, and at the same time provide input materials for production industries, serving socio-economic development; develop the environmental industry. At the same time, perfect regulations on environmental quality management to prevent early and remote sources of pollution that affect environmental quality, along with strengthening forecasting, warning measures, and publicizing information on environmental quality, especially the quality of water environment and air environment. Promote digital transformation, apply technology in pollution control, forecasting, warning, and publicizing information on environmental quality. Continue to review and remove difficulties and obstacles due to unresolved legal regulations, not to hinder development, mobilize and clear all resources, effectively serve the goal of 2-digit growth to create a favorable business and investment environment. Simplify regulations on environmental criteria in classification Project In the draft Law, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment proposes to simplify regulations on environmental criteria in project classification to facilitate investors in determining the responsibility to carry out administrative procedures including appraisal of environmental impact assessment reports (EIA), appraisal of environmental licensing (GPMT). At the same time, continue to review to reduce subjects that must carry out administrative procedures to meet the capacity of localities. At that time, the classification of investment projects is carried out into 3 groups, corresponding to the environmental administrative procedures that need to be carried out, including group I (must have detailed EIA), group II (implement simple EIA) and group III (only carry out environmental registration or environmental clearance before implementation). Amend and supplement a number of regulations on grounds for granting environmental licenses. The Draft Law also proposes to simplify the implementation process, continue to strongly decentralize power to localities, and reduce pre-inspection and strengthening post-inspection to enhance the role and responsibility of project owners in implementing environmental administrative procedures: In particular, new regulations are added in the direction of continuing to reduce subjects that must carry out EIA for projects in industrial zones and clusters, projects that are not of the type with a high risk of causing environmental pollution, projects with small scale and capacity and do not have environmentally sensitive factors. Amend the appraisal process towards only issuing notification of appraisal results (not approving EIA appraisal results) for projects subject to simple EIA. Continue to divideauthority for localities in the direction that the Ministry only conducts appraisal for projects with large scope of impact, inter-regional or related to international treaties for which the Ministry is the focal agency. Amend and supplement a number of regulations on grounds for granting environmental licenses in a clearer and more transparent direction to ensure the correct scop
