【越南】LAWONENVIRONMENTALPROTECTION环境保护法1997..docxVIP

越南环境保护法LAW ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION----------------------------------------------------------- Document source: [Version: 15 August 1997] .au/~vern/luat/luat.html AVSL, PO Box 4013; Ainslie, ACT 2602 Australiaand Coombs Computing Unit, Australian Nat. Univ.------------------------------------------------------------NOTE OF THE PUBLISHERThe Law on Environmental Protection was passed on December27th, 1993 by the National Assembly, 9th Legislature, at it4th Session and went into effect on January 10th, 1994. TheLaw provides for the protection of the environment with aview to protecting the health of the people, serving thecause of sustainable development of the country andcontributing to the protection of regional and globalenvironment.To facilitate the study of the Law and its application toeconomic, scientific, technological, cultural and socialactivities in the country, the National Political PublishingHouse and the Science and Technics Publishing House issuethis book containing the Vietnamese original text of theLaw, an English translation and a French translation. Incase of any ambiguity in the translated versions, theVietnamese text should be referred to. We would like torecord here our thanks to Prof. Dr. Le Quy An, Vice Ministerfor Science, Technology and Environment, to the EnvironmentDepartment under the Ministry of Science, Technology andEnvironment for the assistance accorded to us, to Eng. DangVinhThien and Eng. Nguyen Huy Con for their work on theEnglish translation and to Prof. Dr. Doan DinhKien for theFrench version.We are also obliged to the international experts, Dr.Stephen R. Tyler and Dr. Peter J. MacNamee, for theircomments on, and contributions to the English text, and toDr. Jacques Lecup and his wife for refining the Frenchtranslation.July 1994 National Political Publishing House Science and Technics Publishing HouseNATIONAL ASSEMBLY SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence-