Principles of funding contracts for the use of public assets

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Article 7 of Decree 186/2025/ND-CP (effective from July 1, 2025) stipulates the principles of public asset use fee contracts as follows:

1. The allocation of public asset use funds is applied to cadres, civil servants, and other subjects with standards for public asset use according to regulations on standards and norms for public asset use issued by competent agencies and individuals.

2. The State encourages the application of a public asset use fund controlling mechanism for subjects with standards for public asset use but not subject to compulsory contracts.

3. The allocation of public asset use funds must ensure security, safety and fully perform assigned functions and tasks; ensure more savings and efficiency in investing in construction, shopping, leasing, and leasing of assets.

4. Not implementing a public asset use contract in case:

a) Assets related to state secrets.

b) State agencies that have been assigned, invested in construction, procurement, lease, or lease-purchase of assets for operation, except in cases where those assets are handled in accordance with the provisions of law.

5. Not equipping public assets, not allocating funds for operation, maintenance, and repair of public assets in cases where a contract for use of assets has been signed.

6. The contracted funding source is arranged in the state budget estimate of the state agency.

Thus, the contract for funding the use of public assets is carried out according to the above principles.