VietNamNet Bridge – The amended Land Law draft attempts to
create a provision on fairer land pricing, however, it is too vague to ensure
feasibility in practice, agreed members of the National Assembly's Standing
Committee yesterday, Sept 17, during a review of the proposal.
According to NA Budget and
Finance Committee chairman Phung Quoc Hien, land pricing has become a thorny
issue because of "lying at the heart of most land-dispute cases due to a
lack of a working land pricing mechanisms".
According to Government
Inspectorate statistics, land-related complaints and denunciations account for
70 per cent of the total nationwide figure.
Although the proposal introduces
a provision in which it states that the compensation rate used in land
revocation must be decided by the State in accordance with the market value, it
is still unclear how it should be calculated.
This point was further elaborated
by NA Committee for Deputies' Affairs chairwoman Nguyen Thi Nuong who cited the
example that the compensation price for revoked agricultural land varies from
case to case due to different pricing methods. The price can either be
stipulated by the State, set by market value or agreed between investors and
farmers.
"In most cases, if not every
case, farmers will always lose out while investors will make huge profit from
the newly-acquired land," she said.
NA chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung also
expressed his sceptism on the feasibility of the land pricing proposed in the
draft.
"You say that you calculate
the compensation price according to the market value, but at which point of
time? At the time of pricing or at the time of land acquisition? If this is not
delicately handled, it may lead to a paradoxical situation in which newly-built
industrial parks lie idle while farmers have no land to work on," he said.
Hung added: "From the time
of pricing to the time of acquisition, there is a vast difference in price on
the market. It should be calculated to ensure that farmers get a fair share
from their land."
Apart from land pricing, many
committee members agreed that the amendments made to the Land Law, which have
been compiled by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, had not
touched on some of the most contentious issues and that relevant provisions,
despite being reviewed, remained too vague.
While addressing the efforts
being made by the compilation team to produce a better version of the current
law, chairman of NA Law Committee Phan Trung Ly said that what had been
presented to the NA was too broad to live up to the expectation that this law
could make a breakthrough in helping to resolve land-related issues.
The amended Land Law draft has 14
chapters and 190 provisions, of which 21 provisions were kept intact from the
existing law, 101 provisions were amended and the rest were newly added. The
draft will be submitted to the NA by the end of this year and is expected to be
adopted next year.
In the afternoon session, the
Standing Committee also discussed the draft of the amended Publication Law.
Chairman of the National
Assembly's Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children Dao Trong Thi
said the committee generally agreed with most of the revisions made by the
Ministry of Information and Communications.
However, some members noted that
the amended law should take into consideration the management of online
publications, which are becoming more popular.
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