Procedures for appraisal and approval of commune-level land use plans
This is the content of Decision 2417/QD-BNNMT dated June 28, 2025 on the announcement of internal administrative procedures in the land sector under the state management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment.
Accordingly, the order and procedures for appraisal and approval of commune-level land use plans and adjustment of commune-level land use plans are stipulated as follows:
* Implementation procedures
- Step 1: The People's Committee at the commune level shall send the commune-level land use plan dossier to the competent provincial-level land management agency for appraisal.
- Step 2: Within no more than 5 working days from the date of receiving a complete and valid dossier, the competent land management agency at the provincial level shall send the commune-level land use plan dossier to relevant departments and branches for comments.
- Step 3: Within no more than 10 working days from the date of receipt of valid documents, the departments and branches are responsible for sending written opinions to the competent provincial land management agency.
- Step 4: Within no more than 5 working days from the date of completion of the time for collecting opinions, the competent land management agency at the provincial level shall synthesize and send a notice of the results of the appraisal of the commune-level land use plan to the People's Committee at the commune level to complete the dossier.
- Step 5: Within no more than 5 working days, the People's Committee at the commune level is responsible for receiving and explaining the appraisal opinion to complete the land use plan dossier and send it to the competent land management agency at the provincial level.
- Step 6: Within no more than 5 working days from the date of receiving a complete and valid dossier, the competent land management agency at the provincial level shall submit it to the provincial People's Committee for approval.
* Components, number of documents:
- Submission of the People's Committee at the commune level.
- Explanatory report on land use plan.
- System of tables, charts, maps and accompanying data (paper or digital form).
- Draft Decision of the Provincial People's Committee approving the 5-year land use plan at the commune level.
Contents of commune-level land use planning
According to Clause 1, Article 20 of Decree 151/2025/ND-CP, the content of the commune-level land use plan includes:
- The area of land types that have been allocated in provincial land use planning, provincial land use planning, commune-level land use planning and the area of land types according to the land use needs of the commune level in the planning period and allocated to each planning year.
- List of works and projects expected to be implemented during the planning period; projects to arrange residential land and production land for ethnic minorities (if any); land area for auctioning land use rights, resettlement arrangement area, production land area expected to compensate people whose land is recovered.
- The area of land types, the list of works and projects that have been determined in the previous planning period and the area of land types according to works and projects as prescribed in Clause 4, Article 67 of the Land Law shall continue to be implemented in the next planning period.
- Determine the area to change land use purpose according to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 121 of the Land Law, except for the case specified in Clause 5, Article 116 of the Land Law.
- Determine the area to be recovered for land as prescribed in Articles 78 and 79 of the Land Law during the planning period.
- Determine solutions to organize the implementation of land use plans.
