New regulations on principles and criteria for determining particularly disadvantaged villages

Lawyer Nguyen Thi Thuy, YouMe Law Firm LLC, replied:

Article 2 of Decree No. 272/2025/ND-CP on the determination of ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the period 2026 - 2030 (effective from December 1, 2025) stipulates the principles of determination and determination as follows:

1. Object, accurate, public, transparent, ensuring reality, suitable for the characteristics of each region, area, and locality.

2. Based on official data, updated according to the prescribed time, with a clear legal basis and appraised by competent authorities.

3. Determine and determine according to the principle of combining both the relative ratio and the absolute value, associated with natural geographical conditions, infrastructure, and the level of socio-economic development of the locality.

4. Only determine and redefine when there are changes in the boundaries of villages and communes approved by competent authorities.

5. Ensure the principles of controlling power, preventing corruption, negativity, and group interests in the process of building, appraising, approving, and implementing determination and determination.

Article 7 of Decree No. 272/2025/ND-CP on the determination of ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the period 2026 - 2030 stipulates the criteria for determining particularly difficult villages as follows:

Particularly difficult villages are ethnic minority and mountainous villages, with at least 02 of the following 03 criteria:

1. With a multidimensional poverty rate 4.0 times or more than the national multidimensional poverty rate; in the Mekong Delta region, the multidimensional poverty rate is 2.0 times or more higher than the national multidimensional poverty rate.

2. With less than 60% of village roads and inter-village roads hardened, ensuring convenient car travel all year round according to technical standards prescribed in road law.

3. The rate of households with electricity purchase and sale contracts is below 90%.

Thus, the principles and criteria for determining particularly disadvantaged villages in the period of 2026 - 2030 are implemented according to the above regulations.