Featured policy effective from August

Standards for vocational education officials

Circular 03/2018 of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, effective from August 1, stipulates standards for public employees specialized in vocational education.

Accordingly, officials in this field must be dedicated to their work and strictly comply with the charter, regulations and internal rules of the vocational education institution; have a spirit of solidarity, treat students and colleagues with kindness…

The circular also requires public officials to be fair in teaching and education, and to properly assess learners’ capacity; be in good health and have a clear background.

Foreign preschools can accept Vietnamese children under 5 years old

 

From August 1, foreign-invested preschools will be able to accept children under 5 years old. Photo: The Dan

Decree 86/2018 of the Government takes effect from August 1, regulating foreign cooperation and investment in the field of education.

According to this Decree, foreign-invested preschool and general education institutions are allowed to accept Vietnamese students into foreign educational programs without age limit. Current regulations do not allow Vietnamese students under 5 years old to study in foreign programs).

The number of Vietnamese students studying foreign educational programs must be less than 50% of the total number of students at the institution. In addition, Vietnamese students studying foreign education programs must learn compulsory contents according to regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training.

Fee for appraisal of environmental impact assessment report to nearly 100 million dong

Effective from August 10, Circular 56/2018 of the Ministry of Finance stipulating the collection rate, regime, payment, management and use of fees for appraisal of environmental impact assessment reports made by central agencies. .

Specifically, for civil engineering projects, the revenue is from 8 to 84 million VND; technical infrastructure projects from 8.6 to 86 million VND; agriculture, forestry, fishery and irrigation projects from 8.8 to 88 million VND; traffic projects from 9.2 to 92 million VND; industrial projects from 9.6 to 96 million VND.

100% of the fee collected will be remitted to the State budget.

Agricultural production links are supported up to 10 billion VND

Decree 98/2018 of the Government, effective from August 20, stipulates policies to encourage the development of cooperation and association in the production and consumption of agricultural products.

According to this Decree, the  projects linking the production and consumption of agricultural products are supported  30% of investment capital in machinery and equipment; construction of infrastructure works in service of association (factories, wharves, warehouses in service of production, preliminary processing, preservation…); the total support level does not exceed 10 billion VND.

The State also supports 100% of the cost of link building consultancy, up to a maximum of 300 million VND (including consulting, research to build association contracts, joint projects…).

The parties participating in the supported association must simultaneously meet the following conditions:  Consistent with the local socio-economic development planning; Certificate or commitment to ensure the provisions of law on product quality standards, food safety, disease safety and environmental protection…

Increase allowance for meritorious people

People with meritorious services to the revolution will receive an increase in their allowance from August 27. Photo: CTV

Decree 99/2018 of the Government, effective from August 27, stipulates the level of subsidies and preferential allowances for people with meritorious services to the revolution as follows: Increase the standard level to determine the preferential levels of subsidies and allowances. treatment for people with meritorious services to the revolution from 1,417,000 VND to 1,515,000 VND.

With the above change, the monthly preferential allowance for people with meritorious services to the revolution will be adjusted as follows:  Revolutionary activists before January 1, 1945 who are eligible for escape will be increased by 110,000 VND, and those who do not have to leave the country before January 1, 1945. an increase of 186,000 VND.

The survivorship allowance for relatives of a martyr is: 1,515,000 VND per month (increasing by 98,000 VND); survivorship allowance for relatives of three or more martyrs is: VND 4,545,000 per month (an increase of VND 294,000).

Heroes of the People’s Armed Forces, Heroes of Labor during the resistance war enjoy a subsidy of 1,270,000 VND per month (increasing by 82,000 VND); Invalids and invalids of class B with a working capacity decrease of 81% or more are entitled to an allowance of 760,000 VND per month (an increase of 49,000 VND).

Ba Do – According to vnexpress.net