Decision No. 3380/QD-BNNMT announcing newly issued and amended and supplemented administrative procedures in the field of land under the state management scope of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment effective from August 25, 2025 stipulates land allocation, land lease, and change of land use purpose for cases of land allocation, land lease without auction of land use rights, without bidding to select investors to implement projects using land; cases of land allocation, land lease through bidding to select investors to implement projects using land; land allocation and forest allocation; land lease and forest lease; extension of land use when the land use term expires.
Step 1: The candidate submits the application to the Public Administration Service Center.
When submitting the application, the dossier submitter can choose to submit a copy of the document and present the original to the dossier receiving officer for inspection, comparison or submit the original document or submit a certified or certified copy of the document according to the provisions of the law on notarization and certification. In case of submitting the application online, the application must be digitized from the original or a certified and certified copy of the document.
In case the Public Administration Service Center receives the dossier, the dossier shall be transferred to the provincial specialized agency on agriculture and environment.
Step 2: The provincial specialized agency for agriculture and environment shall:
- Assign the Land Registration Office to provide information about the land database, make an extract of a cadastral map of a land plot in case the dossier is complete and valid.
- instruct the dossier submitter to supplement the cadastral survey of the land plot for the land plot in a place without a cadastral map according to regulations or re-make the dossier or supplement the dossier and submit it to the provincial-level specialized agency on agriculture and environment in cases where the dossier is incomplete or invalid.
- Review and check records; inspect the field; locally inspect the current status of the forest between records and the expected land allocation in cases of land allocation and forest allocation; check the land use plan for cases of changing the purpose of using specialized rice-growing land (if any).
- Preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies to determine cases of exemption from land use fees and land rents (if any).
- Complete the dossier to submit to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.
- Submit to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to issue a decision.
Step 3: The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee shall consider issuing a Decision on land allocation, land lease, permission to change land use purposes, land allocation and forest allocation, land lease and forest lease or issuing a Decision to extend land use when the land use term expires.
Step 4: (applicable to cases where land users must pay land use fees, land rents, pay a sum of money to help the state supplement the lost rice-growing land area or increase the efficiency of rice-growing land use (if any)):
In which, the following cases are divided:
In case the land user must pay land use fees and land rents calculated according to the land price list.
In case the land user is subject to land allocation without collecting land use fees, but must pay a sum of money to the state to supplement the lost rice-growing land area or increase the efficiency of rice-growing land use (if any).
In case the land user must pay land use fees and land rents calculated according to specific land prices.
Step 5: Provincial specialized agencies on agriculture and environment:
- Signing or transferring to competent authorities to sign the Certificate or confirm changes on the Certificate according to the provisions of land law;
- Transfer the dossier to the Land Registration Office;
- The handover of land or handover of land and handover of forest on site shall be carried out in accordance with Form No. 24 issued with Decree No. 151/2025/ND-CP and the granting of a Certificate to the land user.
Step 6: Land registration office:
- Issuing a new Certificate or confirming changes on the issued Certificate in cases under the authority assigned according to the provisions of the land law.
- Update and edit the land database, cadastral records and transfer the Certificate to the dossier receiving agency for payment.
Forestry specialized agencies update and store records of forest allocation and lease according to forestry laws for cases of land allocation and forest allocation, land lease and forest lease.
