New Decree on guiding the Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting

Decree No. 50/2024/ND-CP of the Government on amending and supplementing a number of Articles of the Decree No. 136/2020/ND-CP detailing a number of articles and measures to implement the Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting.

Decree No. 50/2024 amends and supplements a number of contents on approving fire safety designs, in particulars:

Subjects of fire prevention and fighting design examination and approval:

- Projects and works specified in Appendix V issued together with this Decree, which are constructed, renovated or changed in use purposes affecting one of the cases as follows:

• Increasing the number of stories or the fire compartment area;
• Changing the type and location of fire escapes; reducing the number of escape routes of the stories, fire compartments, and construction entities; 
• Installing new ones or replacing fire alarm systems;
• Installing new ones or replacing firefighting systems;
• Changing functions thereby heightening the fire safety requirements applicable to the stories, fire compartments, and construction entities;

Motor vehicles that require special fire safety as specified in Section 19, Appendix V to this Decree, which are newly manufactured or converted thereby affecting one of their fire safety requirements.

Dossier of the fire prevention and fighting design examination and approval:

- For a technical design or construction drawing design of a project or a new construction entity:

• The project owner’s written request for appraisal and approval of the design with respect to fire safety (made using Form PC06);
• A document on construction investment policy as specified by the law regulations on investment, public investment, public-private partnership investment or a document proving the land use rights of the project;
• ·   Construction cost estimate; a technical design dossier or a construction design drawing dossier showing the fire safety requirements specified in Article 11 of this Decree;

For a technical design or a construction drawing design of a project, or renovation or function change of a construction entity, or an adjustment design

• ·The project owner’s written request for appraisal and approval of the design with respect to fire safety (made using Form PC06);
• Construction cost estimate for the part to be renovated or of which the function is changed;
• A technical design dossier or a construction design drawing dossier showing the fire safety requirements specified in Article 11 of this Decree;
• For a technical design of a motor vehicle that requires special fire safety:
• The project owner’s or the vehicle owner’s written request for appraisal and approval of the design with respect to fire safety (made using Form PC06);
• Estimated investment in the vehicle;
• A technical design dossier showing the fire safety requirements specified at Point b and Point c, Clause 1 and Points b, c, d and e, Clause 3, Article 8 of this Decree;

- Documents and papers in the dossier are the originals or authenticated copies or true copies or photocopies enclosed with the originals for the dossier-receiving officer to compare.  Design drawings and written explanations must be certified by the project owner or the vehicle owner.

The Decree No. 50/2024/ND-CP takes effect on May 09, 2024.