FGM Workshop Background Paper - REDD - VietNam

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Decision 147/2007/ QĐ-TTg dated 10/9/2007 • Article 12 of Decision No 147 is about funding for local budgets Funds are collected from e.g.: (a) standing tree selling, (b) forest resources tax, (c) money collected from punishments for violations of laws on forest protection and development, (d) environment protection fee, (e) fee from hydraulic power plants to make local budget for production forest development. This article is not feasible, because: o Collection from hydraulic power plants is only paid for protecting watershed forest, o Standing tree selling money and resource tax collection is not sufficient (small) to manage and protect the trees and the forest, o Environment protection fee must be approved by the Government, and o Money collection of from administrative punishment is mainly put to local-government budget for other-than-forest purpose and the rest only can cover some cost of forest protection activities done by the forest rangers and collaboration with the other forest protection bodies. • Decision No 147 stipulates total investment for implementation of the decision is 40,000 billion VND, in which contribution from all economic sectors is 31,000 billion VND, contribution from central government budget is 8,000 billion VND and contribution from local government budget is 1,000 billion VND. However, in reality contribution for implementation of this decision from the central government budget hardly reaches amount of 1,000 billion VND/year. • For credit policy: Only Vietnam Forest Product Corporation (VINAFOR) and Vietnam <strong>Paper</strong> Products Corporation (VINAPACO) can access the concessionary loans. For other enterprises, family households and individuals who are planting production forest, so far, the access to this kind of credit is impossible. What is monitored/ measured already? • Budget information under second bullit. What needs to monitored/measured in the future? • Number of provinces collecting standing-tree fee. • Amount of money that forest sector receive from national budget. • Amount of money that forest sector receive from provincial budget. • Number of households having access to preferential credit for forestry activities. Vietnam fund for forest protection and development • Vietnam Fund for Forest Protection and Development (VN FFPD) is still is not operating, as there is no financial resources: it is stipulated that the state budget supports the fund 100 billion VND as soon as it is established, but so far it is not sufficient in spites of the fact that 2 years gone after the fund establishment; • There is no mechanism to mobilize willingly contribution of international organizations; organizations, individuals in country and outside the country; 44
• The provincial fund for forest protection and development (FFPD) is not established there is no guidance from MARD how to get resources for the fund. Many provincial DARDs have submitted proposals to PPCs requesting for establishment of the fund, but so far almost is still unsolved. What is monitored/ measured already? • Amount of money invested in forestry. What needs to monitored/measured in the future? • Size of the National Forest Protection and Development Fund. • Number of organizations, individuals providing contributions to the National Forest Protection and Development Fund. • Amount that organizations and individuals contributed to the National Forest Protection and Development Fund. • Number of provinces established provincial forest protection and development fund and set up the fund management system. Law on natural resources tax 2009: • Tax rate of timber class I and II is higher than all metal mineral and non metal ones, coal, and natural gas, and from 4 to 7 times higher than tax rate of natural sea products. Timber is a natural renewable resource, therefore charge it at a tax rate higher than that of non renewable resources is not accurate/fair. • Too high tax rate promotes illegal logging, especially illegal logging of highvalue timber from natural forest. What is monitored/ measured already? What needs to monitored/measured in the future? • Total amount of natural-resource tax paid by forest companies. • Total amount of natural-resource tax paid by households. 3.4. Program “Forest Products Processing and Trade” Box 22: Tasks of Program “Forest Products Processing and Trade” a) Reorganize the wood and NTFP processing industries in order to match the production capability with the sustainable raw material supply sources. b) Strengthen the production capacity of forest product processing industry to meet the basic demands for domestic consumption and for export, which are: • Total capacity of sawn timber: 6 million m3/year • Particle board: 320,000 m3 of products/year • MDF board: 220,000 m3 of products/year • Value of exported wood products: 7.0 billion USD (3.5 million m3 of products) • NTFPs for export: 0.8 billion USD c) By 2020, NTFPs will become one of the main production commodities, 45
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