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Amendments to regulations on environmental impact assessment – Some effects on investment project owners

On January 6, 2025, the Government promulgated Decree 05/2025/ND-CP amending and supplementing several articles of Decree 08/2022/ND-CP dated January 10, 2022 on elaboration of certain articles of the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 (Decree 05). Decree 05 took effect on January 6, 2025 with several amended and supplemented regulations related to environmental impact assessment.

New regulations on appraisal fee of environmental impact assessment report

On June 8, 2023, the Ministry of Finance promulgated Circular 38/2023/TT-BTC on the collection rate, regime of collection, payment, management and use of the fees for appraisal of environmental impact assessment reports by central agencies to replace Circular 56/2018/TT-BTC. Circular 38 takes effect from August 1, 2023.