The spending levels for the preparation of the legal documents.

The spending levels for individuals participating in meetings, workshops, seminars, conferences and press conferences are also cited specifically.

The Circular rules cost estimates, management, and balance of the State budget must ensure the work on the preparation of legal documents and legal system refining of agencies and units.

The Circular cites, the cost of the preparation of legal documents and legal system refining are ensured by the State budget, included in the budget estimates of the recurrent expenditures of the agencies and units.

The allocation of the State budget which secures for the preparation of legal documents and legal system refining of agencies and units is implemented under official programs, plans and additional plans for the year, ensuring comformity with the progress of the task and within the budget estimates delivered.

About the spending limits for the contents in the preparations of legal documents and legal system refining, Circular No. 338 is divided into 8 contents with specific levels.

In particular, the spending limits for preparing syllabus of draft documents are from 650,000 vnd to 4 million vnd; for the drafting the documents from 2.7 million vnd to 12 million vnd, for the drafting reports which serves for the preparation of the documents and perfecting the documents from 800,000 vnd to 12 million vnd; for the feedback on the draft, valuation report of the documents from 250,000 vnd to 1 million vnd.

Adjusted spendings for perfecting research proposals, all types of reports, explanations, written submissions, draft documents: are at 600,000 vnd/ time; the documents of the People’s Councils, People’s Committee alone are at 200,000 vnd/ time.

Besides, the Ministry of Finance also rules the specific spending for individuals who participates in meetings, workshops, semniars, conferences and press conferences; for document translations proofreading…

Norms for allocations of costs for ensuring the preparation of legal documents and legal system refining are ruled under the legal documents with the lowest spending level of 10 million vnd/ document for legal document of the local government units in special administrative – economic units and the highest level of 2 billion vnd/ project under the replaced Circular.

Base on the budget and current situation, Minister, leaders of central agencies, people’s councils at provincial levels, and municipalities rule the levels of allocation for each legal document to carry out.

The detailed expenditures and instructional expenditures; based on the levels of funding assigned to prepare the legal document and complete the legal system; leaders of agencies, units which have been tasked to prepare and complete legal documents and system decide the expenditures for their works within a suitable level of expenditure in the total spending assigned to implement their tasks in preparation of legal documents and perfecting legal system.

The Circular comes into force on February 15, 2017.