7 cases requiring permission to change land use purpose

Office of Legal Consulting of Lao Dong Newspaper replied:

Clause 1, Article 121 of the 2024 Land Law (effective from August 2024) stipulates that cases of land use purpose change must be permitted by competent state agencies, including:

a) Converting rice-growing land, special-use forest land, protective forest land, and production forest land to other types of land in the agricultural land group;

b) Converting agricultural land to non-agricultural land;

c) Converting other types of land to concentrated livestock land when implementing large-scale concentrated livestock projects;

d) Converting non-agricultural land allocated by the State without land use fees to other types of non-agricultural land allocated by the State with land use fees or land lease;

d) Converting non-agricultural land that is not residential land to residential land;

e) Converting land for construction of public works, land used for public purposes with business purposes to land for non-agricultural production and business;

g) Converting non-agricultural production and business land that is not commercial or service land to commercial or service land.

Thus, according to the 2024 Land Law, the above cases must apply for permission to change land use purpose.