Encourage and support investment and technological innovation
(Baonghean) - Pursuant to the Law on Organization of People's Councils and People's Committees dated November 26, 2003;
Pursuant to the State Budget Law dated December 16, 2002;
Pursuant to the Law on Science and Technology dated June 18, 2013;
Pursuant to the Law on Technology Transfer dated November 29, 2008;
Considering the proposal of the People's Committee of Nghe An province in Submission No. 7690/TT-UBND dated October 29, 2013;
Based on the Audit Report of the Economic - Budget Committee and opinions of the Provincial People's Council delegates,
RESOLUTION:
Article 1. Scope of regulation and applicable subjects
1. Scope of regulation:
This Resolution stipulates the mechanism to encourage and support organizations and individuals to invest in new technology, technological innovation, research and application of scientific and technological advances to improve the competitiveness of products and goods in Nghe An, including: (Continued from page 1)
- New technology investment projects;
- Technology innovation and improvement projects;
- Research projects, application of scientific and technological advances.
2. Applicable subjects:
a) Organizations and individuals that have registered and operated production, business and services in accordance with the provisions of Vietnamese law in Nghe An;
b) This provision does not apply to organizations and individuals with foreign investment capital and projects that use or receive funding support from the state budget.
Article 2. Content and level of support
1. In the field of Standards - Measurement - Quality:
Support organizations and individuals to carry out one of the following contents and be certified by competent agencies and units:
a) Apply a quality management system that complies with one of the following standards: ISO 9001: 2008, ISO 14000, ISO 22000, Global Gap, HACCP, TQM, GMP and other current quality management systems being applied domestically and internationally.
Support level: 30 million VND for first certification.
b) Certification of products meeting national and international standards
Support level 10 million VND/product.
c) Registering domestic and foreign codes and barcodes
Support level: 2 million VND/code.
2. In the field of Industrial Property:
Support organizations and individuals to carry out one of the following contents and be certified by competent agencies and units:
a) Register domestic protection for trademarks or industrial designs of products that the enterprise is manufacturing, trading, or providing services.
Support level is 10 million VND/brand or industrial design of product.
b) Registering for protection abroad for trademarks or industrial designs of products.
Support level is 50% of total cost, but not more than 20 million VND.
c) Inventions, patents, and useful solutions applied to production associated with products, assessed by the Appraisal Council as having scientific and technological value and bringing about socio-economic efficiency.
Support level 30 million VND/invention or useful solution.
3. Organizations and individuals participating in domestic and international technology and equipment markets and certified by competent authorities as prescribed:
a) Participate in the technology and equipment market in the North Central region
Support level not exceeding 10 million VND/unit.
b) Participate in technology and equipment markets outside the North Central region
Support level not exceeding 20 million VND/unit.
c) Participate in international technology and equipment markets.
Support level not exceeding 30 million VND/unit.
4. Participate in Nghe An Technology Exchange
Organizations and individuals with new technology, equipment and products participating in Nghe An Technology Exchange approved by competent authorities will be supported with costs for decorating booths to display and introduce products.
Maximum support level is not more than 10 million VND/participation.
5. Building an e-commerce information system
Organizations and individuals building e-commerce information systems that are assessed by competent authorities as having socio-economic efficiency will be supported with domain name registration, server rental, internet line rental for the first year and costs for designing and building e-commerce information systems.
Support level not exceeding 20 million VND/organization or individual.
6. In implementing investment projects on technological innovation, research and application of scientific and technological advances.
a) Support content:
- Technology transfer costs include: Technical know-how, technological knowledge transferred in the form of technological plans, technological processes, technical solutions, formulas, technical specifications, drawings, technical diagrams, computer programs, data information...;
- Cost of raw materials and energy for trial production;
- Costs to support wages for workers and technical staff directly involved during the trial production period;
- Cost of testing the quality of trial production products, advertising and product introduction costs;
- Cost of purchasing new, advanced, modern equipment in the production line and quality testing equipment;
- Costs of training support, coaching on vocational skills, technology management capacity and technology innovation for technical staff.
b) Support level: not more than 30% of total project implementation cost and not more than 500 million VND/project.
Article 4. Funding sources
The funding source for support is drawn from the Science and Technology Development Fund of Nghe An province and is supplemented from the annual science and technology career budget.
Article 5. Implementation
Assign the Provincial People's Committee to implement this Resolution.
Article 6. Implementation provisions
This Resolution was passed by the 16th Provincial People's Council, 10th session on December 13, 2013 and takes effect 10 days after the date of passage.
Abolish Resolution No. 257/2008/NQ-HDND dated December 20, 2008 of the People's Council of Nghe An province on promulgating mechanisms to encourage and support organizations and individuals to invest in technological innovation, research and application of scientific and technological advances to improve the competitiveness of products and goods in Nghe An.
CHAIRMAN OF THE PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S COUNCIL
Tran Hong Chau
