The Government issued Decree No. 275/2025/ND-CP on amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 85/2025/ND-CP dated April 8, 2025 of the Government detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Public Investment.
In particular, the Decree supplements Article 9a on the order and procedures for deciding on the investment policy for the nuclear power plant project under the authority of the Prime Minister.
Accordingly, the Prime Minister assigned ministries, central and local agencies to be the managing agencies to implement the project. The project implementation agency is responsible for:
Assign the affiliated unit to organize the preparation of the project's pre-feasibility study report; Establish a Council for appraisal or assign the affiliated unit to organize the appraisal of the pre-feasibility study report; Complete the pre-feasibility study report to submit to the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister shall establish a State Appraisal Council chaired by the Minister of Industry and Trade or assign the Ministry of Industry and Trade as the agency in charge of appraisal to appraise the project's pre-feasibility study report. The establishment of the State Appraisal Council is allowed to be carried out at the same time as the process of preparing the project's pre-feasibility study report.
The State Appraisal Council or the agency in charge of the appraisal is allowed to invite organizations and individuals with expertise and experience to participate in the appraisal of the pre-feasibility study report or require investors to choose organizations and individuals with expertise and experience to participate in the appraisal of the pre-feasibility study report.
The Ministry of Finance shall preside over the assessment of capital sources, capital balance capabilities, and capital allocation plans to submit to the State Appraisal Council or the agency in charge of appraisal.
The appraisal council or the agency in charge of appraisal specified in Point 2 shall send appraisal opinions so that the agency in charge of preparing the pre-feasibility study report can complete the report and submit it to the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister decides on investment policies, including goals, scale, total investment, location, implementation time, mechanisms, solutions and implementation policies.
