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3. PUBLIC LAW AND
REGULATORY PERMITS
3.1 Spatial planning at sea
It is a requirement under the Law on Planning 2017 that any national sectoral master
plan must conform to the national overall
master plan, the national marine space
master plan or the national land-use master
plan. On 28 June 2024, at its recent 7th Session, the 15th National Assembly passed the
Resolution on national marine spatial plan
for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to
2050. This is the first national marine spatial
plan issued under the Law on Planning 2017.
The national marine space master plan
determines functional zoning and arrangement, allocation and organisation of sectors
and fields in coastal areas, on islands and
archipelagos and in marine and airspace under within Vietnam's sovereign jurisdiction.
As for wind power development, for the
first time, the national marine spatial plan
determines marine areas with potential for
common exploitation and development
Vietnam
with other sectors, including oil and gas exploitation, construction materials exploitation, mineral sand exploitation, combustible
ice, and deep-sea metal minerals for each
specific sea region as follows:
(a) Northern sea region: approximately
2,245 thousand hectares;
(b) Central sea region: approximately 18,671
thousand hectares;
(c) South-eastern sea region: approximately
11,316 thousand hectares; and
(d) South-western sea region: approximately
2,400 thousand hectares.
3.2 Regulatory permits required for the
construction and operation of the
offshore wind farm (OWF) and the
onshore grid connection
Many key permits and authorisations are required to develop an offshore wind project
in Vietnam, and the statutory timelines to
obtain them are as follows:
