<p>Study tour to Denmark and Poland for CIEM delegation Draft outline of program</p><p>Time: </p><p>- 28 August to 1 September, 2006: Denmark - 2 to 7 September, 2006: Poland</p><p>Objective</p><p>The visiting group will become acquainted with:</p><p> State management organization  State management in the market economy  Role of the civil society</p><p>In addition, the visiting group will work with two partners of Danida funded project (NIAS and DOE) in Denmark on project management.</p><p>Issues to be studied</p><p>1. State management system - Organization of the state management apparatus, especially the governmental organizations? - Tasks and functions of each organizations, - Decentralization and collaboration among these organizations. </p><p>2. Exercising state ownership rights in enterprise. - The size of the state sector in the economy; - State agencies or institutions in charge and instruments used for exercising state ownership rights in enterprises; - How - Shortcomings or weaknesses of the system.</p><p>3. Foreign investment control and promotion. - Foreign capital flows; - Investment law, if any? If no, how investment is regulated? Investment project classification; Is a investment project required to re scrutinised and certified by authorities? or how investment stock and flow in general and investment projects in particular can be controlled?. - Discrimination for foreign and domestic investors, if any, and why? Differences, if any, in incorporation procedures of company with foreign invested capital. - Investment promotion policies; Institutions and tools of investment promotion.</p><p>4. State control or state supervision over businesses.</p><p>1 - Business registration agencies; - State supervision or control of businesses after their incorporation.  Purposes of control  Scope of control;  Subjects for control;  Ex-ante licensing and post supervision? what are industries or professionals for ex ante licensing and what for post supervision? any why?  Institutions and instruments of control;  Agencies in charge of issuing license to business; how and who is in charge to excercise supervision over their works?.  Assessement of effeciency and effectiveness of control;  Key issues of the current regulatory reforms;  Issuses of debate or discussion in regulatory reforms. 3. Coordination and responsibilities of central and local goverment in supervising businesses.</p><p>5. Role of civil society in development - What are the main (strong) civil organizations? - How are they organized/operated? Under what regulations? - What are their roles? Particularly, role of NGOs in policy making process? - How do they affect/contribute to the development?</p><p>Institutions that may be visited in Denmark (tentative list) </p><p>1. State management system: The Danish Parliament: Short presentation by two politicians. Ministry of Finance Ministry of the Interior and Health: Presentation on The Local Government Reform (see also http://www.im.dk/publikationer/government_reform_in_brief/index.htm) </p><p>2. Exercising state ownership rights in enterprise: Area: The energy sector. DONG Energy (Danish Oil and Natural Gas) is a limited company, the shares of which are owned by the Danish state. However, the government is preparing a privatization of the company. Ministry of Transport and Energy Power plant, Avedøreværket (major energy company), close to Copenhagen.</p><p>3. Foreign investment control and promotion: Invest in Denmark, part of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Visit to either Hillerød area with its Medicon Valley because of a high concentration of companies doing research in medicine and bio-chemistry often with foreign investment. Or a visit to Odense where we will look at investment promotion policies. In both cases, we will try to get appointments with Mayor and/or Head of city administration.</p><p>4. State control or state supervision over businesses: Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, part of Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs.</p><p>2 Visit to a company. Local Government Denmark, the local governments’ interest association.</p><p>5. Role of civil society in development: Presentation by associate professor Henrik Bang, University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science. Henrik Bang has done research in civil society empowerment, democracy from below. See also http://www.polsci.ku.dk/english/index.htm</p><p>6. Department of Economics and NIAS</p><p>Note: NIAS invite for Dinner on Wenesday (Mr. Lasse Moller from Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Vietnamese Ambassador will be there), Finn will invite for dinner on Thursday. </p><p>Jørgen Delman, PhD, Director NIAS Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Leifsgade 33 2300 Copenhagen S. Denmark</p><p>Phone NIAS: +45 3532 9500 Phone direct:+45 3532 9523 Mobile:+45 2682 8720 Fax: +45 3532 9549 Web site: www.nias.ku.dk E-mail: [email protected] </p><p>Hotel place in Denmark </p><p>Palace Hotel Rådhuspladsen 57 DK-1550 Copenhagen K Denmark Tel: +45 33 14 40 50 www.palace-hotel.dk</p><p>Booking nos. 516981719 526981719 536981719 546981719</p><p>- Price single room incl. Breakfast: DKK 995.00 (USD 167) - Price double room incl. Breakfast: DKK 1195.00 (USD 200)</p><p>Institutions that may be visited in Polland (tentative list) </p><p>1. Ministry of Economic Issues 2. Ministry of Finance 3. Ministry of Labor and Social Policies</p><p>3 4. Minsitry of Home and Administrative Affairs </p><p>Place to stay in Poland</p><p>Stay in the Guess House of Vietnamese Embassy to Poland.</p><p>Approach</p><p>The Danish/Poland hosts would be asked to make a presentation of not more than half an hour, after which the floor will be open for questions and discussions. </p><p>For each visit at least two Vietnamese participants will be in charge of preparing the questions and handling the individual visits.</p><p>The visiting group will have a session in the evenings before dinner to review the day’s visits and assign responsibilities for covering the information in their report.</p><p>Participants: </p><p>1- Dr.Dinh Van An, President, Head of the delegation, CIEM 2- Nguyen Dinh Cung, Director, Research Department on Macro-Economic Policies 3- Le Xuan Ba, Vice-President, CIEM 4- Hoang Van Thanh, Deputy-Director, Research Department on Macro-Economic Policies 5- Pham Duc Trung, Researcher, Research Department on Business Development Policies 6- Pham Manh Cuong, Deputy Head of the Administration Office 7- Dang Thi Thu Hoai, Researcher, Research Department on Sustainable Development</p><p>Organisation of study tour </p><p>For Denmark, NIAS is responsible for organising the activities in Denmark. Specifically, the following issues will be carried out by NIAS:  Make a list of meetings and arranges all meetings  Visa invitations to be issued by NIAS  Book accommodations  The tickets will be booked and bought in Hanoi by the local project office.</p><p>For Poland, Vietnam embassy in Poland will help out as above. </p><p>Budget line: 8.4 & 9.1</p><p>Hanoi, July, 2006.</p><p>4</p>