On February 10, 2025, the Government issued Decree 19/2025/ND-CP guiding the Investment Law 2020 on special investment procedures, including regulations on registration procedures for issuance of Investment Registration Certificates.
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Accordingly, new regulations on registration procedures for investment registration certificates are as follows:
Application dossiers for issuance of investment registration certificates are specified in Clause 2, Article 36a of the Investment Law. The investor's commitment in the written request to implement the investment project includes the following contents:
1. Relevant conditions, standards and technical regulations according to the provisions of law on construction, environmental protection, fire prevention and fighting;
2. Preliminary assessment of the project's conformity with the conditions, standards and technical regulations specified in point (1);
3. Commit to meeting the conditions, standards and technical regulations specified in point (1), not to perform prohibited acts according to the provisions of law on construction, environmental protection, fire prevention and fighting and to take full responsibility in case of failure to comply with the commitment content.
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Receiving agency: Management Board of industrial parks, export processing zones, high-tech parks, and economic zones (hereinafter referred to as Management Board).
The Management Board reviews, evaluates and issues the Investment Registration Certificate. The assessment of the project's conformity with relevant planning is carried out as follows:
(i) Assess the project's compatibility with the planning of industrial zones, export processing zones, high-tech zones, centralized information technology zones and free trade zones. In case the project is proposed in an area where zoning planning is not required or the zoning planning must be adjusted and has not been approved by a competent authority, evaluate the investment project's compatibility with the general city planning; town; new towns and urban areas; approved district or commune except in the case of point (iii);
(ii) In case the project is proposed to be implemented in a functional area in an economic zone, evaluate the project's compatibility with the approved general planning of the economic zone or general planning of cities and towns, except for the case specified in point (iii);
(iii) For industrial parks, export processing zones, high-tech parks, centralized information technology parks, free trade zones and functional areas in economic zones with effective zoning plans according to the provisions of the Law on Urban and Rural Planning, evaluate the project's compatibility with the zoning planning.
Areas applying special investment procedures comply with the provisions of Clause 1, Article 36a of the Investment Law 2020 (amended and supplemented in 2024).
Decree 19/2025/ND-CP takes effect from February 10, 2025.
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