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offshore facilities of a project can only be
fully secured upon obtaining a marine space
assignment decision from the competent
State body, as further described in section
6 below.
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3. PUBLIC LAW AND
REGULATORY PERMITS
3.1 Spatial planning at sea
The Government has delegated the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
(MONRE) to prepare a national marine space
plan. A draft plan is currently under consideration, but there is no indicative timeline on
when such a plan will be completed, and the
proposed draft plan is not publicly available.
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. In summary, the national marine space
master plan will determine functional zoning
and arrange, allocate and organise the space
of sectors and fields in coastal areas, on islands and archipelagos and in marine and air
space under Vietnam’s sovereignty, sovereign rights, and jurisdiction.
