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In the draft Decree amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 193/2025/ND-CP dated July 2, 2025 of the Government detailing a number of articles and measures to implement the Law on Geology and Minerals, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment proposed to add many regulations related to mineral exploration and exploitation procedures. The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment proposes additional cases to adjust the Mineral Mining License. Additional cases to adjust the Mineral Mining License. The draft proposes to supplement the cases to adjust the Mineral Mining License (Article 64): Increase the mining depth, expand the mining area boundary, or both after the results of expanded and deep exploration are approved by the competent state management agency; Expanding the boundaries of mineral mining areas to exploit all approved mineral reserves according to mineral mining projects (adjustments) approved by competent state management agencies for investment policies if so prescribed by investment law. Adjust the name or list and role of main minerals and accompanying minerals in the mineral mining license to comply with the regulations on mineral classification issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, including cases where the main minerals in the license issued before the effective date of the 2024 Law on Geology and Minerals are converted into accompanying minerals. Supplement the issuance of mineral mining licenses for cases where the priority right to submit applications for mineral mining licenses has expired. Draft Proposed addition of Article 59a regulating the granting of mineral mining licenses in cases where priority rights have expired in submitting applications for mineral mining licenses, revocation of mineral mining licenses, and salvage mining licenses: 1. The granting of mineral exploitation licenses in mineral areas that have had exploration results but organizations and individuals with mineral exploration licenses have exhausted their priority right to submit applications for mineral exploitation licenses according to the provisions of Article 46 of this Decree or for mineral areas whose mining licenses have been revoked, mineral exploitation licenses shall be carried out in the following forms: a) Through auction, except in cases where the mineral area is delineated without auction of mineral exploitation rights according to the provisions of Article 143 of this Decree; b) Select organizations and individuals that meet the criteria specified in Clause 2.2. The selection of organizations and individuals to be considered for granting mineral exploitation licenses for mineral areas specified in Clause 1 above is carried out in the following order of priority: a) Organizations and individuals carrying out works, projects, tasks that use minerals or have projects or mineral processing plants that meet the criteria specified in Clauses 5 and 10, Article 143 of this Decree; b) Organizations and individuals that meet the criteria specified in Clause 1 of this Decree. 3.3. Except for the case specified in Point a, Clause 2 above, the selection of organizations and individuals to consider granting mineral exploitation licenses for mineral areas specified in Clause 1 above is carried out in the following order of priority: a) Organizations and individuals with the right to use information and legal mineral exploration results; b) Organizations and individuals with the largest equity capital and meeting the criteria specified in Article 55 of this Decree; c) Organizations and individuals Individuals have been fulfilling all financial obligations in mineral activities in the case of organizations and individuals conducting mineral exploitation activities.4. Order and procedures for selecting organizations and individuals to be granted mineral mining licenses: a) Organizations and individuals submit applications including documents specified in Points a and b, Clause 2, Article 61 of this Decree to the agency receiving documents of the state management agency competent to grant mineral exploitation licenses; b) Within 03 working days from the date of receiving documents from the first organization or individual wishing to exploit minerals, the agency receiving the application Public notice of the name of the organization or individual, the name of the mineral and the location of the proposed mining area at the agencys headquarters and the website of the agency competent to issue mineral mining licenses. The notification period is 10 days from the date of notification of receipt of the first organization or individuals dossier. c) Within the notification period specified in Point b of this Clause, the application-receiving agency continues to receive applications for mineral exploitation licenses from other organizations and individuals (if any); Continue to publicly announce the name of that organization or individual at the agencys headquarters or the website of the licensing authority until the end of the first 10 days of posting the notice. d) Within 10 days from the date of completion of the work specified in Points b and c of this Clause, the agency receiving the dossier will not receive dossiers from other organizations or individuals and will transfer the received dossier to the appraisal agency to select the organization or individual to issue the license. mineral exploitation license as prescribed in Clause 3 above. dd) Within 07 working days from the date of completion of work in Clause 4 nHere, the agency evaluates the dossier and submits it to the competent state management agency to notify the selection results to the selected organization or individual to consider granting a mineral mining license. For organizations and individuals not selected for consideration for granting mineral mining licenses, the competent state management agency is responsible for notifying in writing the reason for not being selected. e) The dossier recei
