Decision 24/1999/QD-BNN-TCCB

DECISION No.24/1999/QD/BNN-TCCB of February 1st, 1999 defining the tasks and organizational structure of the Water Resources Science Institute

The Water Resources Science Institute is a non-business agency conducting scientific research, technological development and post-graduate training in water resources and attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The Institute has the following main tasks:

- To work out and materialize the short-term and long-term plans for scientific and technological research, water resources development;

- To conduct the oriented basic research and research for subsequent application in scientific-technological and marketing fields, and review the specialized water resources studies in service of research and social life;

- To transfer technologies and build up experimental models; to provide project construction designing, consultancy and investment services as well as to produce and trade in products turned out from the Institute�s research activities and the technical advances according to the Ministry�s and the State�s regulations;

- To take part in or assume the prime responsibility for the elaboration of processes, rules and economic-technical standards and norms; to formulate the branch�s management mechanism and relevant regimes and policies on scientific grounds, then propose them to the competent authorities for promulgation;

- To train cadres of post-graduate level and take part in training cadres of university level in water resources according to the State�s plan and authorization;

- To establish cooperation and joint venture with scientific and technological research institutions, production and/or business establishments within and without the branch in order to solve the inter-branch scientific and technological matters in the field of water resources;

- To establish scientific and technological cooperation with foreign organizations and individuals according to the State�s current regulations and the Ministry�s assignment of responsibility.- (Summary)