The 2024 Land Law stipulates which agency has the authority to decide and approve annual land use planning and plans at the district level?
The 2024 Land Law stipulates which agency has the authority to decide and approve annual land use planning and plans at the district level? The issue of concern for Mr. Nguyen Truong Phi (Anh Son district, Nghe An).
Reply:Pursuant to Article 72 of the 2024 Land Law, the competent authority to decide and approve district-level land use planning and annual district-level land use plans is as follows:
Authority to decide and approve land use planning and plans
1. The authority to decide and approve national land use planning, national defense land use planning, and security land use planning shall comply with the provisions of the Law on Planning.
2. The Government approves the national land use plan.
3. The Prime Minister approves provincial land use planning and provincial land use plans for centrally-run cities that are not required to establish provincial land use planning.
4. The People's Committee at the provincial level approves the district-level land use planning and annual district-level land use plans.
5. Before approving the annual land use plan at the district level, the provincial People's Committee shall submit to the provincial People's Council for approval a list of works and projects requiring land recovery, including land recovery projects for auction of land use rights, bidding to select investors to implement projects using land; projects requiring change of land use purpose with areas of rice-growing land, special-use forest land, protective forest land, production forest land according to planning, except for cases specified in Clause 4, Article 67 of this Law.
Thus, according to Article 72 of the 2024 Land Law, the competent authority to decide and approve district-level land use planning and annual district-level land use plans is the Provincial People's Committee.