Circular No. 2/2005/TT-BTNMT guiding the implementation of the Government's Decree No. 149/2004/ND-CP on the issuance of permits for water resource exploration, exploitation and use, or for discharge of wastewater into water sources.

This Circular provides for the issuance, extension, change of duration, adjustment of contents, suspension of validity and withdrawal of permits for underground water exploration; permits for underground water exploitation and use; permits for surface water exploitation and use; permits for discharge of wastewater into river, stream, canal, coastal, lake or pond water sources; and sets forms of dossiers of permit application as well as permits.