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The Government issued Decree No. 227/2025/ND -CP dated August 16, 2025 amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Governments Decree No. 16/11/2018 detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Forestry Law. Decree No. 227/2025/ND-CP supplementing the provisions on temporary use of forest use to execute urgent projects, in which Decree No. 227/2025/ND-CP amended and supplemented Article 42a of Decree No. 156/2018/ND-CP amended and supplemented in Clause 2, Article 1 of Decree No. 27/2024/ND-CP on temporary use socio -economic development for national and public benefits in accordance with the law on investment, public investment, investment in the method of public -gas, petroleum, construction, electricity, electricity and other laws but does not change the purpose of forest use to other purposes for temporary use of forest. Investment policy or investment policy decision in accordance with the Law on Public Investment, Investment Law, Investment Law in the method of public -petroleum partnership, PetroVietnam Law.B) Projects for national defense and security; Emergency projects in accordance with the law on emergency status; irregular and emergency projects in natural disaster prevention and disease prevention, epidemics, fire and explosion; The project of electricity and power grids to ensure national energy security; The urgent project to solve problems arising in practice is decided by the competent authorities to decide on investment policy or approve investment policies or decision approval of investment projects.c) urgent project on construction of essential socio -economic infrastructure: Construction and railway construction projects; Irrigation project; Freshwater reservoir project; The revolutionary embellishment project, a project to embellish historical and cultural relics is a national monument, a special national monument that is decided by the competent authorities to decide on investment policy or approve the investment policy or decision to approve the investment project in accordance with the Law on Public Investment, the Law on Public Investment in the form of public -private partnership (PPP). The temporary use of forest use is approved by competent authorities, except for planting forests as a production forest owned by organizations, households, individuals, and population communities, they do not have to develop a temporary use of forest use. Conditions for approval of temporary use of forest for forests 227/2025/ND-CP amending conditions for approval of temporary use of forest use as follows: A- Project is temporarily approved by the right to invest in the investment planning project or investment policy of the investment plan Or the decision to approve the investment project in accordance with the Law on Public Investment, the Law on Investment by the method of public-private partnership, the Law on Investment, Petroleum Law; B- In case the project has shifted the purpose of forest use to other purposes and temporary use of forest, there must be a decision to change the purpose of forest use to other purposes (for the area of changing the purpose of forest use). In case the project does not change the purpose of forest use to other purposes but temporarily using forests, there must be a decision on investment policy or approving the investment policy or the decision to approve the investment project; c- only allow temporary use of forest in case the project is required to use on a forest area because it cannot be arranged on other land areas. Minimize the temporary use of forest and cut down forest trees within the temporary use area; d- Temporary use of forest use must be investigated and evaluated on the current situation, reserves and impacts of temporary use of forest ecosystems. The content of impact on the forest, re-planting forests and forest restoration must be fully shown in the temporary use of forest use; do not exceed the project implementation time; E-do not temporarily use forests in strict protection areas of special-use forests, forest areas with endangered and rare forest species; do not take advantage of the temporary use of forests to tighten, deforestation, hunting forest animals, exploiting and transporting timber and forest products in contravention of law, legalization of timber and forest products exploited illegally; Do not bring waste, toxic chemicals, explosives, fire, flammable substances, tools and means to the forest in contravention of the law; failing to build, dig, dig, cover, prevent natural flow and other activities that change the natural landscape structure, destroy forest resources, forest ecosystems, protective works and develop forest; ensure the forest area is restored to meet the criteria into forests as prescribedof the law on forestry. In case the temporary forest area is under the management of the forest owners, the units under the ministries, branches, the defense areas, the presidents of the provincial Peoples Committee shall have written comments from the ministries, the branches, the Ministry of Defense and only approve when the agreement of the ministry, the managing branch, the Ministry of Defense. The forest of the project investor in the form in Appendix I issued together with this Decree; In case the project does not change the purpose of using forest to other purposes, there is a copy of the investment policy decision or approving the investment policy or the decision to approve the investment project; c- originals the explanation report and the map of the status quo of the area for temporary use. The explanatory report shows the location (lot, mom, sub -area; administrative landmarks), forest area according to forest types (special -use forests, protection forests, production forests), origin of formation (natural forests, planted forests), reserves and species for planted forests; Map (current status of forest areas using forest 1/5,000 forest ratio clearly shows the location (l
