The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment responded to this issue as follows:

In Clause 2, Article 68 of the Land Law, "2. The recovered land shall be allocated for management and use in accordance with the following provisions:

a) Land that has been recovered according to the provisions of Articles 61 and 62 of this Law shall be assigned to investors for implementation of investment projects or to public land-related service organizations for management;

b) Land that has been recovered according to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 64 and Points a, b, c and d, Clause 1, Article 65 of this Law shall be assigned to a public land service organization for management and auction of the right to land use;

In case the land recovered as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 64 and Points a, b, c and d, Clause 1, Article 65 of this Law is agricultural land of households and individuals in rural areas, it shall be assigned to the People's Committee for grant management commune. This land fund is allocated or leased to households and individuals that have no land or lack production land in accordance with the law.