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The Decree 118/2008/nd-Cp: About Civil Defense

Original Language Title: Nghị định 117/2008/NĐ-CP: Về phòng thủ dân sự

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Pursuant to the law on organization of the Government of 25 December 2001;

Pursuant to the law on defence 14 June 2005;

Considering the recommendation of the Minister of national defence, the DECREE: chapter I GENERAL PROVISIONS article 1. Scope of this Decree stipulates the tasks; investment guarantee mechanisms; the Organization, coaching; Prevention of remedial high-technology weapons, nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological (referred to as weapons of massive destruction) and the disaster caused by nature or human cause; the responsibility of ministries, ministerial agencies, government agencies, provincial people's Committee, the central cities (hereafter referred to as the provincial level), the people's Committee of the district, County, town, and city in the province (hereinafter referred to as the district level), the people's committees of communes, wards and towns (hereinafter referred to as the social level) , the political organization, social-political organizations, economic organization (hereinafter referred to as the Agency) in civil defense.

Article 2. The object of this Decree apply apply to agencies, organizations, individuals are citizens of Vietnam; agencies, organizations, individuals are foreigners live and work on the territory of Vietnam.

The case of the international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member of a decree shall apply the provisions of international treaties.

Article 3. Explanation of terms In this Decree, the terms below are interpreted as follows: 1. Civil Defense: is the Department of national defense system, consisting of active measures, against the war or catastrophe due to natural or human-caused, dangerous disease; implement prevention, disaster recovery, protect the people, protect the Agency's activities, the Organization and the national economy.

2. Disaster: is the variable by nature, danger or disease caused by humans or the result of war to do serious damage to persons, property, natural environment.

Article 4. Principle, guideline civil defense 1. Comply with defense, security operations by the law regulations.

2. Civil Defense put under his leadership, the party's direction, the unified management of the Government, directly is the leadership, the mandate, level of Government and the head of the agency or organization; promote synergy of both the political system and the entire population.

3. civil defense was organized from the central to the local, regional and territorial basis. The head of the Agency, the organization responsible for organizing civil defense.

4. implementation of the guideline is the main room; promote the role of the force in place, premises, vehicle Commander, logistics in place; positive, proactive, timely prevention, remedial.

Article 5. Governance of civil defense 1. Content governance: a) enactment, implementation of the law on Civil Defense;

b) planning, directing the plans made civilian defense duties;

c) propaganda, popular State laws, local regulations, knowledge of civil defense to the whole population;

d) direction, civil defense Executive;

DD) regulations and instructions made the work guaranteed for civil defense;

e) inspectors, inspection, summary, summarizing, reward, treat infringement on civil defense.

2. Responsible governance: a) unified government administration of civil defence;

b) Defense Ministry chaired Government help make state management functions of the civil defense in the field is assigned on the nationwide;

c) ministries, ministerial agencies, government agencies in the scope of the task, their powers of Government responsible to implement state management of civil defense in the field is assigned on the nationwide;

d) people's Committee levels within the scope of its powers, duties make the governance of local civil defense.

Article 6. Civil Defense Director 1. The Prime Minister directed the civil defense within the country.

2. The Minister of defence to help prime the direction of civil defense in the field is assigned.

Commander of military region help the Minister of Defense, Director of civil defense instructions in the field is assigned in the local areas of military region.

The local military authorities, the provincial district level and Board-level military commander commune people's Committee advised the same level of civil defense work according to the direction of the Ministry of Defense and The Commander of military region.

3. The Secretary of the Ministry, ministerial heads, directing government agencies, administration of civil defense for the agencies, units of power and guide the implementation of civil defense on the field in the industry nationwide as assigned by the Prime Minister.

4. the people's Committee Chairman granted in the scope of its powers, duties, implementation of local civil defense under the provisions of the law.

Article 7. Permanent bodies on Civil Defense 1. Ministries, ministerial agencies, government agencies have permanent agencies perform civil defence tasks in the field are assigned according to the provisions of the law. Permanent bodies on civil defense levels work in part-time mode. Organizational structure, mission, authority, work regulations of the Agency by the Permanent Secretary, the heads of ministerial agencies, government agency decisions.

2. The Ministry of defence, The Commander of military region organized a permanent body to help the Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Commander of military region track direction, guidance on civil defense in the field is assigned. The permanent bodies of civil defense at the Defense Department, The Commander of military region. The Ministry of Defence decided to establish regulations, organizational structure, mandate, powers, the working rules of the permanent bodies of the civil defence of the Ministry of defence, The Commander of military region.

3. the people's committees of all levels have permanent agencies help people's Committee Chairman the same level direction, the organization performing the duties of civil defense. The permanent bodies of civil defense provincial level, district level located at the local military authority or the headquarters of the industry. The permanent bodies of the civil defense headquarters in township-level people's Committee of the social level.

4. The Chairman of the provincial people's committees, district level decision established, regulated the structure, organization, duties and powers of the standing organs of civil defense at the same level. Chairman of people's Committee of the district level decision established, regulated the structure, organization, duties and powers of the permanent organs of the civilian defence level.

5. a permanent agency for civil defense levels used seal of his agency to resolve work related to civil defense.

Chapter II Organization, training, CIVIL DEFENSE OPERATIONS Items 1 to CIVIL DEFENSE ORGANIZATIONS article 8. Organized civil defense force 1. The civil defense forces, including mainstay and extensive forces.

a) mainstay consists of:-the militia, social public security; Protection Agency, organization;

-Civil defense forces dedicated or part-time Army of people;

-Civil defense forces dedicated or Chief of the ministries.

b) extensive forces: the whole people to participate.

2. Organization of civil defense forces in the core level.

a) specialised forces or Chief of the ministries in charge of civil defense in the field are assigned charge;

b) forces of the regional centre and dedicated force presiding civil defense duty in each zone, on each sector;

c) at the provincial level, district level: the Organization of dedicated team, Chief of civil defense duty on each sector. The specific organization of teams of civil defense duties by the Minister of national defence and Minister of the concerned regulations. Civil Defense teams were the organs, the Organization Department of the provincial level, district level according to the functions, tasks and areas of responsibility are assigned;

d) at the level of town and bodies, organizations: the Organization, mobile prevention, remedial; the hive of communication, notification, alarm; the emergency, commercial load; guards evacuated, dispersed the people, the team secured the logistics, engineering; environmental sanitation team. The civil defense team, led by militant self-defense, public safety social responsibility. The Board of military commanders, police, social agencies, military organizations, responsible for construction, management, training, command.

Article 9. The Mission of the civil defense force 1. Advocacy, training of knowledge about civil defense.

2. Forecasting risk, scale, the extent of damage of the area can be disaster. Announcements, timely alarm transmission when the disaster occurred.

3. Implementing the necessary measures when there are disasters, specifically: a) evacuate the people, scattering property of the State and the people to safe areas; conducting measures to disguise, shielding; ensure equipment, personal protection means, food, drinking water and essential activities for people in disaster areas;

b) observation, reconnaissance, timely detection of, unchecked, zoned, detoxification, Eraser, duplicate removal for people, equipment, vehicles in the area of radioactive, biological, toxic chemicals;

c) proceed to rescue collapsing, search, rescue, restore public activities;

d) first-aid, moved the victim to the nearest medical facility;

DD) refueling, food, food, medicines and other necessary materials to areas in distress, the area is divided, restore normal operations to the birth of forces in the disaster;

e) ensure peace, fight disease, environmental sanitation in the disaster area.

Article 10. Vehicles, equipment for civil defense force 1. The Ministry of defence, in coordination with the Ministry of industry regulation, the list of media types, equipment, equipment, materials, guarantee of civil defence operations in the sphere are assigned according to the decision of the Prime Minister; at the same time guide the production, Stockpiling, use in training maneuvers about civil defense and when situations occur.


2. the people's committees of all levels, the head of the Agency, the Organization secured equipment, vehicles, equipment, and materials necessary for the civil defense forces, made the people's protection measures, national economy. In the case of enforcement of the emergency order, the President of the people's Committee to mobilize the means, devices, materials in his local to prevention, disaster recovery in accordance with the law.

Article 11. The planning system for civil defense 1. Build the system of defenses in each level when war is associated with the planning of the military posture of defensive area. The evaluation, planning, planning of civil defense works made under article 14 of Decree 152/2007/ND-CP dated 10 October 2007 of the Government on the defensive area.

2. Planning system for civil defense outside of the field of Defense by the ministries, ministerial agencies, government agency the Prime Minister of the Government decision.

3. Combine economic, social development with the construction of the defensive works; take advantage of the terrain, the cave, half-submerged buildings, underground constructions made of shelter for the people, the Agency held when there is risk of disaster or war.

4. the State has a policy of encouraging domestic investors and overseas construction of underground works to secure the double.

Article 12. Building systems Research forecasts, warning, alert consolidation, construction of the Research Center, Observatory, Lookout, observation of hydrology, meteorology, earthquake, tsunami, environment, people's air defense of Central, local, area, form the prediction information network system , warning, alarm on nationwide.

Article 13. Construction of the civil defense service 1. Construction of the works, the enemy advancing against heavy fire with high-tech weapons, weapons of massive destruction by the Minister of national defence regulations.

2. Build civil defenses in addition to the field by the Minister of defence ministries, ministerial agencies, heads of agencies in the Government.

Section 2 CIVIL DEFENSE TRAINING article 14. Advocacy, education, training, training, training, rehearsal.

1. The Agency, organized from the central to local use of the mass media and other forms of advocacy to raise awareness, consciousness, accountability and universal basic knowledge for the entire population about civil defense.

2. Fostering, training, coaching, exercise, about the universal the measure, avoid, remedial high-technology weapons, large weapons of destruction and other calamities for mainstay, extensive force on civil defense was held annually under the guidance of the Ministry of defence.

3. The base function, its mission, the ministries presiding, in cooperation with the Department of Defense identified the content, organization and methods of training in the civil defense program in civil defense training every year.

4. civil defence exercise in each locality, the Agency organized by the Chair of the local people's Committee, the head of the Agency, the organization responsible for organizing, under the direction of the supervisor.

Article 15. Time for civil defense training 1. The training time of civil defense for the mainstay (except civil defense forces dedicated to the Department of Defense and the ministries) is 10 days a year, in a total time of military training or expertise according to the provisions of the law.

2. for pupils, students, trainees, training in the Academy, the school of politics, administration, unions at all levels, time of civil defense training is 8/year and is made in national defense education program, the security of each school year.

3. Learning about civil defense officials and Communist Party members, civil servants are made in programs fostering the knowledge of national defense and security under the provisions of the law.

Item 3 ACTIVITIES OF CIVIL DEFENCE article 16. Construction of civil defense plan 1. The agencies, organizations, and local initiative to build civil defense plan; every year, each period there are adjustments to suit the actual situation of the Agency, and local organizations.

2. The Department of Defense and the ministries concerned instructed the construction of civil defense planning in the field is assigned.

Article 17. Measures to mitigate the disastrous consequences 1. Construction plan and implement forestation start source, the coastal strip, restore mangroves, forest ecology, forest alum sour; implementation of the measures of forest fire prevention under the guidance of the Ministry of agriculture and rural development.

2. system-wide Event held, against flooding the ministries; consolidating forecasting system, notifications, alerts, alarms, make sure the information through to people in dangerous areas on land and at sea.

3. The local mountains, sea, island, border closely synergistic with The main team, The local team, the border guard, the Navy, Coast Guard, police stationed in the area, organized the force, means, ready to search, rescue, rescue people and vehicles in distress. The means of boat manufacturing, maritime must make register mode, armed civil defense vehicles to ensure safety in the event of a disaster.

4. Perform the test mode, the detection, timely handling the risk of disaster. The region often flood depth, flooding the tube, flash floods, sea water erosion, earthquakes, forest fires, must have rescue, rescue under the guidance of the Ministry of agriculture and rural development.

5. The ministries, local bodies, the organization plans to protect chemical facilities, nuclear, radioactive, toxic biological agent; rescue remedies to correct the problem, handle leaks of toxic chemicals, radioactivity, explosions, water treatment, waste, protection of the environment under the guidance of the Ministry of natural resources and environment, the Ministry of science and technology, Ministry of industry and trade and the Ministry of industry, in accordance with the law.

6. Prepare the plan, fight disease, medications, ready reserve relief the people when the disaster occurred due to the dangerous disease under the guidance of the Ministry of health.

Article 18. The disaster handling mechanism 1. The Defense Department directed the regional military Command, the local military authority levels chaired committees for the Commandant of the same level the implementation of measures for prevention, remedial due to the war cause.

2. The ministries steer the industry bodies along the presiding Chief of the people's Committee at the same level for the implementation of measures for prevention, remedial disaster on the field was assigned charge.

3. The President of the people's Committee of the levels directed, perform civil defense measures in local. Case exceeds the ability of the local superior reporting directly through permanent bodies on civil defense.

4. The head of the Agency, held in provincial level, district level and Administration directed the force in performing the duties of civil defense at the Agency, organized themselves and are willing to do the task in a different place by order of the President of the people's committees of the same level. Chairman of the provincial people's Committee was force, vehicles, supplies of the Agency, the Central Organization to stand on feet after unification with the ministries.

Article 19. Reception, information processing, communications, alarm 1. The information related to the risk or disaster, reported on a permanent agency for civil defense the same level to check and handle.

2. after receiving information related to the risk or disaster; the Ministry; the industry, the people's committees of all levels have the responsibility to notify the Agency, in the Organization and the peoples, and the permanent agency reports about civil defense supervisor according to the regulations.

3. The mass media from the central to local responsibility to timely news information related to civil defense.

Article 20. The action of the ministries, the people's Committee of the catastrophic levels When there is an alert, notification, alarm danger or disaster; the head of the ministries, the people's committees of all levels have the responsibility to: 1. Organize and maintain operation of permanent bodies of civil defense in the levels according to the decision of the authority specified in article 6 of this Decree.

2. Directs the implementation of emergency measures to defend the people, protect the Agency, organization, activities, social economic, defense, security, check the disaster prevention works to put into use when needed.

3. Operator, Commander of the forces, means, equipment, supplies and specialized to handle the situation according to the civil defense plan.

4. Operator, Commander of the forces in the disaster recovery.

5. Strictly special measures when there is a State of emergency as stipulated by the current legislation.

Article 21. The people's protection measures 1. Proactively prevent, prepare the equipment, dispersion, evacuate people to safe areas, less dangerous.

2. To conduct an emergency, search people and vehicles in distress.

3. Timely relief and ensure conditions of accommodation, sanitation for people in the region, the area is divided by the catastrophe caused.

4. Warning not for the person, not the media in disaster areas.

5. Protect the security order in the region where the disaster occurred to evacuate the people.

6. Objective, Eraser, duplicate removal, remedial environmental hygiene, disease prevention, stabilize people's lives, restore and develop production.

7. The action of the people: a) Executive order notifications, alarms and comply with the instructions of the permanent bodies of civil defense and civil defense forces;

b) means of individual protection, items are prepared, used when there is alarm or instructions of the civil defense forces;

c) themselves or helping others or initial detoxification;

d) strictly the evacuation, shelter and just left the position when orders secure signal, of the agency or authority.


8. Strictly special measures when there is a State of emergency as stipulated by the current legislation.

Article 22. Agency safeguards, institutions, national economy 1. Leadership only perform civil defense measures as planned and the directing of the permanent bodies of the same level of civil defense.

2. Mobilizing the force, means of conducting evacuations, scattering officers, servants, employees, workers, the facilities of the Agency, held to the area, the less dangerous; conducting measures to disguise, cover, ensuring security and order in place, the work of the Agency, held in place to evacuate.

3. the remedial, fast recovery of production, work.

4. The action of the civil defense forces: a) the deployment and installation of safety devices for prevention to take into use; providing personal protective means;

b) notice, notice, guidance officers, servants, employees, workers approve regulations on shelter and use prevention works;

c) Organization, guidance officers, servants, employees, workers had evacuated after fire, forces command, fire, crash rescue, search and rescue, detoxification, Eraser, duplicate removal ready duty;

d) handling of Health Organization and buried the dead, identified animals; disinfection, the purge and press room; guidance officers, servants, employees, workers perform preventive measures.

DD) implemented measures to protect the security and order, ensure food safety, protect the environment, detection, marking, zoned, detoxification, Eraser, duplicate removal for people, vehicles in the area were contaminated with radiation, impacted by biological and toxic chemicals isolated from disaster areas.

5. Strictly special measures when there is a State of emergency as stipulated by the current legislation.

Chapter III OPERATIONAL DEFENSE of Article 23. The media mobilization mechanisms, equipment, and materials 1. The mobilization in the form of purchase requisition, featured vehicles, equipment, and materials of the organization or individual to conduct civil defence measures comply with the provisions of the law on permanent purchase, requisition property.

2. The Authority decided to requisition the property purchase, the referendum to proceed in civil defense measures in case yet to declared state of war, made under article 24 of the law on permanent purchase, requisition property.

Article 24. The mode for the mobilization and training of civil defense duty.

1. People are not paid from the State budget during mobilization training and perform civil defence tasks according to the decision of the authority are entitled as follows: mode a) subsidized workdays each profession according to the level due to the provincial people's Committee. For the labourer, the lowest support levels by 0.04 compared to minimum wage as determined by the Government at that time (the minimum wage), for related labor directly to radioactive substances, biological agents, toxic chemicals, the lowest support rate by 0.1 compared to the minimum wage; If trained and served at night from 22 hours to 6 am on the following day are counted twice; do missions where there is dangerous, toxic elements shall be fostered in place as prescribed by law;

b) When training and civil defense duty away from the residence, no conditions to go about daily, then be mobilized level layout where to eat, stay, support vehicles, travel expenses or the payment of money to ship the car once go on and on; supported money eating according to the level due to the provincial people's Committee rules;

c) levels would mobilize the level that guaranteed to pay.

2. The person who is paid from the State budget, in time to mobilize and perform civil defence tasks according to the decision of the competent authority, the organization where people that work pay and benefits salary resources, road allowances and money train car When working in hazardous environments and where regional allowances, are entitled under the current regime. The case of the person making the contract in time to join the training, civil defence service was temporarily free of performing labor contracts and workers do not pay social insurance.

The cost for the foregoing are charged to the budget spent on the Agency's regular activities.

3. Officers, self-defense militia soldiers, police training and mobilization was made civil defense duty according to the decision of the authority is entitled to the prescribed mode of law.

Article 25. Mode, the policy for the civil defense forces were sickness, accident and death.

1. Participants of the civil defense forces if sickness, accidents in the following cases shall be entitled to the regime about the sickness, industrial accident: a) Were sick, crash while training, perform tasks at work, both inside and outside office hours by decision of the authority;

b) Suffer sickness, accidents on the way to and from the residence to the place where the training or duty;

c) where by reason of drunkenness or the use of drugs and stimulants ruin your health, does not enjoy the record mode in paragraph 1 of this article.

2. The liability of the direct command and the Agency held out the decision to mobilize when the accident occurred in performing the duties of civil defense: a) timely first aid, first aid to the victim, then proceed directly to the nearest medical facility;

b) To set the minutes, the full record the happenings of accidents, injury victims, the extent of damage, causes an accident, signed by representatives of cadres, staff training, to join the mission. Instances of crashes on the way there and back, then the minutes must stamp, signatures of the representatives of the local government where the accident occurred.

3. mode, policy for people suffering illness, accidents: a) Being sick: participants of civil defense forces were ill while training, do the task if not yet join the health insurance premiums be paid money to see a doctor; If the die support productivity and money, money buried as standards of participants social insurance premiums;

b) accident:-paid medical costs in the process, emergency first aid until a stable injury treatment, discharge;

-After treatment are introduced authorities go labor ability assessment in medical examiners Board under the provisions of the law;

-Cases who have not yet participated in social insurance premiums decreased the ability of labour from 5% or more shall be entitled to the pension regime, the level of subsidy by Ministry of labor, invalids and Social Affairs chaired the Guide. The case has involved social insurance premiums shall be entitled to the pension regime in accordance with the law on social insurance;

-The accident missed one or more body parts or functions, denoted under the form of different disabilities, degrade operational capability, making labor, living, learning difficulties are entitled to the preferential regime prescribed by law for disabled people;

c) death cases, including death during the first treatment, if people were dying not yet join the social insurance premiums, then the person directly funeral received money buried by 8 (eight), the minimum wage and the family of people that once subsidized by 5 (five) months minimum wage. If deaths have involved social insurance premiums, then follow the provisions of the law on social insurance.

4. pay the cost of the regime when sickness, accidents due to local budget secured. For those who have played the money health insurance hospital medical insurance fund pays; participation of social insurance, the electronic dog mode and the mode of subsidy once or monthly by social insurance fund payments.

5. Officers, self-defense militia soldiers perform civil defence tasks according to the decision of the authority of the accident, then enjoy the mode according to the provisions of the law of self-defense militias.

Article 26. Mode, the policy for the civil defense forces were injured, sacrifices of participants of civil defense forces on duty as defined in article 8 of this Decree, has the brave actions to save the property of the State, of the people, if injured, sacrifices are considered to enjoy the mode the preferential policies in accordance with the law.

Article 27. Compensation vehicles, equipment, and materials are acquired civil defense duty 1. The compensation for damage to vehicles, equipment, and materials are requisitioning follow the provisions of article 34, article 35, article 36, article 37, article 38 and article 39 of the law on permanent purchase, requisition property.

2. Funding secured the payment of compensation for damage to vehicles, equipment, and materials be acquired made under article 40 of the law on permanent purchase, requisition property.

Article 28. Funds secured for civil defense 1. The budget guarantee for civil defense in ministries, ministerial agencies, government bodies, agencies, and organizations in the annual Central are expected on the State budget in accordance with the budget Law.

2. The budget for civil defense of the annual local in local budget secured.

3. The budget guarantee for civil defence at enterprises are charged to cost of production management, business.

Article 29. Content budget for civil defence work 1. The Organization of forces, training in civil defense.

2. Compensation for damage vehicles, equipment, and materials are acquired, mobilized to join training, rehearsal, check, civil defense duty.

3. Vehicles, equipment, and materials are purchased for civil defense duties.

4. Ensure the food allowance; secure the ailing regime, accidents, injuries or death, sacrificing for the people being trained and made civil defense duties in accordance with the law.

5. Ensuring the physical, material, training curriculum, fostering education on civil defense.

6. civil defence exercise in the local, agency, organization.


7. Build the infrastructure, works in the evacuated area, reception stations, depots of reserve vehicles, engineering supplies, food, fuel, food, medicine, drinking water served in civil defense duties.

8. Build civil defenses.

9. Inspection, testing, summary, summarizing, rewarding about civil defense.

10. the decentralized procurement vehicles, supplies, build civil defenses by the Defense Department, in coordination with the Ministry of planning and investment, Ministry of finance and the relevant agency Guide.

Chapter IV ORGANIZATION ACCOUNTABILITY Do 30. The responsibilities of ministries, agencies, held in Central 1. A Ministry of defence), in collaboration with the Ministry of planning and investment and the ministries involved, helping the Prime building of planning and directing the implementation of civil defense duties in the field is assigned within the country;

b) presiding, in cooperation with the Ministry of education and training, Ministry of labor, invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of construction-related sector, the program content, education, coaching, exercise, fostering knowledge of civil defense for the mainstay, officers, public officials, students, students, students and the entire population on the field is assigned.

c) directing the military districts, the local military authority levels for the Chief of the people's Committee at the same level to perform civil defense on the field is assigned;

d) directed the construction of the civil defense, search and rescue, disaster recovery caused by the war; directed, commanded the forces in rescue missions, rescue, disaster recovery as assigned by the Prime Minister.

DD) hosted, in cooperation with the Ministry of construction and the ministries concerned appraisal planning, plans to build the works meet the requirements of civil defense, the provisions of article 11, article 12 and article 13 of this Decree;

e) Help the Prime test organization, summary, summarizing, commended the work of the civil defense on the field is assigned.

2. The Ministry of public security a) in collaboration with the Department of Defense and the ministries concerned to perform the duties prescribed in points a, b, e, e, paragraph 1 of this article;

b) presiding, in cooperation with relevant ministries and local authorities ensure political security, social safety and order in the region, the disaster area;

c) directing police forces organized the force, means of search and rescue, disaster recovery;

d) build, manage and use the dedicated police force on duty fire department, fire under the provisions of the law on fire, fire.

3. The Ministry of health a) directing, instructing medical establishments, hospitals, research institutes, health center to prepare the force, medical equipment, medicines ready emergency maneuvers, transportation, treatment of victims; prophylactic treatment.

b) directs the agencies, organizations, units preparing forces, medical equipment, medicines ready emergency maneuvers, transportation, treatment of victims; prophylactic treatment, sanitation, put out the dangerous disease.

4. The Ministry of agriculture and rural development a) presiding, coordinating the ministries, local full implementation of mitigation measures for disaster consequences prescribed in clause 1, item 2, item 3, clause 4 of article 17 of this Decree;

b) collaboration build planning and implementation ensuring food security, food products meet the requirements of civil defense.

5. Ministry of environmental resources and a) The Government, the Prime Minister issued or issued under the authority of the legal texts in the field of remedial environmental disaster. Directing and coordinating the organization check, identify contaminated environmental area on the Federal, international, guide the determination of damages and the Organization of environmental pollution, degradation of the environment;

b) presiding, in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of information and communications and the Ministry of construction-related industries, research centres, system warning, forecasting natural disasters, environment related to civil defense.

6. Ministry of planning and investment to host, in cooperation with the Ministry of defence, the Ministry of finance and other ministries concerned evaluation as specified for the project, ensures the combination of economic and social development to meet the requirements of civil defense in time of peace and time of war; balance the budget to invest in the development of annual budget estimates to ensure the ministries, local defence missions.

7. The Ministry of finance a) issued or the authority issued the text about managing and using the budget to perform civil defense; coordinating the ministries concerned ensure the budget for the implementation of civil defence tasks;

b) steering national reserve plan was the State of affairs; production, timely, adequate levels of supplies of goods to serve in civil defense order of authority.

8. The Ministry of transport of a) presiding, in cooperation with the Department of Defense, the ministries concerned and the provincial people's Committee building and deployment plans, plans to combine the use of force, vehicles, equipment, and materials make the defense; the search teams, rescue by road, waterway, airway; When the disaster occurred and directing, guiding the local organization of the transport team to evacuate the people, means to secure areas, logistical supply, transfer and trade;

b) in coordination with the Defense Department, the State Department directed the seafarers, in licensing and in collaboration with foreign media, perform search and rescue in the event of a disaster.

9. Ministry of construction a) presiding, in coordination with the ministries concerned issued the guidance documents, standards of construction works, project according to the requirements of civil defense;

b) steer enterprises in collaboration with the local authority on the standing foot held the disaster recovery team, the consequences of war;

c) in collaboration with the Ministry of defence, the Ministry of planning and investment appraisal of the planning project, socio-economic development to meet the requirements of civil defense, the provisions of article 11, article 12, and article 13 of this Decree.

10. The Ministry of information and communication a) presiding, in coordination with the ministries concerned the rules unified frequency soup, emergency planning, guarantee the right of priority to use the means of communication that serves only the leadership on the field of civil defence;

b) in coordination with the Ministry of defence, Ministry of natural resources and environment to build communications networks, notification, alarm between the Observatory, Observatory, a research center with a permanent agency for civil defense to the level prescribed in article 12 of this Decree;

c) directs agencies, units of the Ministry, the postal and telecommunications business of mobilizing forces, means of participation guarantee service contact information the defense; use the mass media to conduct advocacy, civil defense education for the whole population as defined in article 14 paragraph 1 of this Decree.

11. the Industry a) regulated the production and exploitation of atomic power, mineral, toxic chemicals, explosives industry to limit the risk of disaster in the industrial sector; tight management of the import and export of toxic chemicals, dangerous; in collaboration with the Ministry of planning and investment to build the plan the reserve source of energy to maintain the activities of Defense, security, socio-economic and service of civil defence tasks.

b) presiding, in coordination with the ministries concerned to steer and guide the handling of the explosion pit collapsed in the production facilities, nuclear power, coal mining, petroleum, chemicals, industrial explosives;

c) stabilize market price, ensuring the essential items for the people in the disaster zone and when at war.

12. The Ministry of labour, invalids and social-a), in collaboration with the ministries, relevant agencies and the provincial people's Committee of social relief, make good policy with participants of civil defense duty with sickness, accident, injury or death , sacrifice;

b) in coordination with the Department of Defense guidelines, policies for civil defense forces training, rehearsal and civil defense duty.

13. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs a) directs the agencies under the Ministry, the diplomatic missions and consular agency of Vietnam in collaboration with foreign countries, the international organisation for search and rescue, means of individual institutions, Vietnam distress when activity on international waters including the maritime search and rescue region ,;

b) presiding, in cooperation with the ministries to function through the diplomatic route, proposed the foreign authorities to help search and rescue organization, Vietnam's media people in distress; do the necessary procedures and solve the problems that arise to take the means of water;

c) coordinate, guide and rescue, rescue people and foreign media to meet the disaster on the territory of Vietnam.

14. The ministries, agencies, and organizations in a central) in collaboration with the Department of Defense, ministries, agencies and the authority the legal documents on civil defense in the area assigned;

b) organizing advocacy, education for officers, servants, employees, workers in terms of content, the civil defense measures;

c) directs agencies, units of the Ministry of industry, implementation plans, civil defense measures on the field was assigned charge. At the same time directing the timely organization of the force, his media duties of civil defense under the command of the authority;

d) in collaboration with the Department of Defense to conduct the inspection, examination, summary, summarizing the performance of civil defence tasks.

Article 31. The responsibility of the people's Committee of the level 1. Issued the guidance documents on civil defense in the local jurisdiction; steer the organisation holds, implementing civil defense duties.


2. Advocacy, mobilization of officers, civil servants, workers, people involved in civil defense.

3. develop and implement plans, schemes to mobilize forces, the media, local materials, of the agencies, the central organization works locally made civil defence tasks under the direction of the permanent bodies of civil defense.

4. Directing the Organization building the force, training and exercise of civil defense for the forces in power.

5. The organization of the force in the implementation of measures for prevention, disaster recovery, protecting people when at war.

6. Recommendations to the permanent agency civil defense superior to mobilization of forces and means of the ministries, other local coordinating civil defense measures in case of exceeded the ability of his response.

7. Make sure policy regime for civil defence work.

8. Steer and implement inspection, inspection, summary, summarizing, commended on the local civil defense.

Chapter V REWARDED and HANDLE breach of article 32. Rewards organizations, individual achievement in civil defense work be rewarded according to the regulations of the State.

Article 33. Handle violation of organization, individuals about violations of civil defense work depending on the extent, nature and violators will be disciplined, the administrative processing or arrested save for criminal liability in accordance with the law.

Chapter VI Article 34 ENFORCEMENT TERMS. Effective enforcement of this Decree has effect after 15 days from the date The report.

Article 35. Responsible for guiding implementation 1. The Ministry of defence, in coordination with the ministries concerned, this Decree implementation guide.

2. The Ministry of defence, in coordination with the Ministry of planning and investment, Ministry of finance guide to make sure the budget and ensure the media, materials for civil defense duties.

3. Ministers, heads of ministerial agencies, heads of government agencies, the Chairman of people's Committee of the province, central cities and other agencies responsible for the implementation of this Decree.