National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man highly appreciated the Government, National Assembly and relevant agencies for promptly preparing and helping the Government coordinate with the National Assembly Standing Committee to promptly organize the Conference to disseminate and implement the laws and resolutions passed by the National Assembly at the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly to soon put the laws and resolutions passed by the National Assembly into practice, ensuring the connection between law-making and law enforcement.
On the afternoon of December 25, at the Government headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man co-chaired a conference to disseminate and implement laws and resolutions passed at the 8th session of the 15th National Assembly.
Innovation in law-making thinking is reflected in all stages.
Speaking at the Conference, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said that at the opening session of the 8th session of the National Assembly, General Secretary To Lam gave an important speech, emphasizing the need to "strongly innovate legislative work" to meet the development requirements of the country in the new era, the era of national development; to meet the expectations of voters, people, and the business community. The National Assembly Chairman also sent a document to National Assembly deputies on the implementation of this request.
Right at the 8th Session, the agencies have synchronously deployed innovative solutions for law-making thinking, demonstrated in all stages: project submission, review, acceptance, revision, and completion of draft laws and resolutions submitted to the National Assembly for comments and approval. The results and effectiveness achieved are very positive.
Specifically, at the 8th Session, the National Assembly passed 18 laws and 21 resolutions, the highest number of draft laws passed at a session since the beginning of the term (since the beginning of the term, the National Assembly has passed 61 laws).
"The success of the 8th Session is due to many reasons, but first of all, it is due to the close and timely leadership of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, the Secretariat, and directly General Secretary To Lam; the close, timely and effective coordination between the agencies of the National Assembly, the Government, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, the State Audit and relevant agencies; and the support of the policy of innovation in law-making and deciding on important national issues by National Assembly deputies," said National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man.
Listening to the opinions of experts, managers, businesses, and people from all walks of life, through practical activities; the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee have made innovations right from the preparation stage for the Session. The National Assembly Party Delegation and the Government Party Personnel Committee held two meetings; one meeting more than a month before the opening of the Session to review the contents of the Session; one meeting one week before the opening of the Session to reach a final consensus on the expected Session Agenda and the contents of the report to the National Assembly.
Innovation in coordination between drafting agencies and reviewing agencies in the process of drafting laws and resolutions in the spirit of practical companionship, debating to the end, respecting listening and democratic reasoning but must reach an optimal unified solution.
Draft reports, proposals, laws and resolutions are promptly sent to National Assembly deputies for study and preparation of opinions. Shorten the time for presenting proposals and reports, giving time for the National Assembly to discuss, agencies to speak and explain; reduce discussion time in the hall, increase discussion time in groups so that more National Assembly deputies can express their opinions.
According to National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, among the laws passed at the 8th Session, there are new, difficult laws with complex content, but they were considered and passed by the National Assembly in one session, which normally requires a two-session process, such as the Law on Public Investment, the Law on Electricity (amended), the Law on Data, etc.
The laws and resolutions passed have demonstrated strong decentralization and delegation of power with the motto "locality decides, locality does, locality is responsible", shifting the mindset from building laws that focus on management to harmoniously combining effective management with development creation, promoting innovation, such as the Law on Public Investment, the Law amending 4 laws in the field of investment, the Law amending 9 laws in the field of finance and budget, etc.
With the spirit of building concise laws to ensure stability and long-term value, in the process of receiving and revising, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly and the Government directed the reviewing agencies to remove from the draft laws and resolutions many specific provisions under the authority of the Government, ministries, branches and local authorities.
The detailed regulatory documents are very large in volume.
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said that, after a preliminary review, there are currently nearly 700 contents assigned in 18 laws and 10 resolutions passed by the National Assembly at the 8th Session that need to be specified in detail by the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, central agencies and local authorities. This is a huge challenge when placed in the context that agencies in the political system are currently focusing on implementing the policy of arranging and streamlining the apparatus, urgently preparing for the extraordinary session of the National Assembly at the end of February 2025, and at the same time implementing the Law and Ordinance Development Program in 2025 with a large number of draft laws and resolutions that need to be prepared to submit to the National Assembly at the 9th Session.
Faced with those requirements and tasks, National Assembly Standing Committee Chairman Tran Thanh Man suggested that the Government and relevant agencies pay attention to a number of major issues.
Specifically, regarding the research, proposal to amend and promulgate new laws and resolutions to implement the policy of restructuring and streamlining the apparatus, according to the preliminary report of the Ministry of Justice, it is expected that there will be about 4,922 documents affected by the restructuring of the apparatus, including 167 laws, 9 resolutions of the National Assembly, 10 ordinances, 2 resolutions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, 829 decrees, 271 decisions of the Prime Minister, 1 directive of the Prime Minister, and 3,642 ministerial documents.
The Standing Committee of the National Assembly has sent a document to the Government and agencies requesting urgent review, research, and proposal of contents that need to be amended, supplemented, and specific plans (it is possible to apply the form of one law amending many laws or submitting to the National Assembly to issue a resolution on the contents that need to be handled) for the Standing Committee of the National Assembly to consider and supplement to the Program; it is necessary to prepare carefully so that immediately after the Central Conference, it can be completed in time and submitted to the National Assembly for decision at the Extraordinary Session at the end of February 2025, ensuring that the Party's policy is implemented as quickly as possible after being unanimously approved by the Central Committee.
Regarding the issuance of documents detailing the implementation of laws and resolutions passed at the 8th Session, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly highly appreciated the Prime Minister for promptly issuing a Decision to issue a list and assigning agencies to draft documents detailing all laws and resolutions passed by the National Assembly at the 8th Session.
Due to the large number of contents and detailed regulations that need to be issued, for 18 laws alone, the Government and Ministries need to issue 127 documents, some laws and resolutions will take effect from the beginning of 2025. It is recommended that each Ministry and agency assigned to preside over the drafting should closely follow the requirements in the Prime Minister's Decision, focus on directing the development and issuance of documents on schedule, ensuring quality.
In the context of restructuring and streamlining the apparatus, it is inevitable that there will be certain disruptions in the organization and operation of a number of ministries and agencies. National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man suggested that the Government direct the agencies assigned to preside over the drafting and promulgation of documents so as not to interrupt the work of drafting and promulgating documents; after the restructuring, the new agency taking over the task needs to inherit the results, promptly complete the documents for submission for promulgation or promulgate according to its authority to ensure that the detailed regulations come into effect on time.
Regarding the implementation of the 2025 Law and Ordinance Development Program, in conjunction with the preparation for the 9th Session, this session also has a large amount of legislative work. It is expected that the National Assembly will consider and pass 11 laws, 2 resolutions, and give initial comments on 15 draft laws, not to mention a number of projects that the Government is considering to continue proposing to add to the Program.
After the extraordinary meeting at the end of February 2025, with just over 2 months left until the 9th Session, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man proposed that the Government direct the Ministries to closely coordinate with the National Assembly agencies from this December to organize research, receive opinions, and revise the draft laws that the National Assembly commented on at the 8th Session, while focusing on preparing and completing the projects assigned to preside over the drafting so that the Government can submit them to the National Assembly Standing Committee for consideration and comments at the sessions in February and March 2025, avoiding consolidating them in sessions close to the opening of the 9th Session.
During the research and drafting process, it is recommended that agencies continue to thoroughly grasp and seriously implement the requirements on innovation in legislative thinking, develop concise laws within the authority of the National Assembly, not legalize the provisions of decrees and circulars, and ensure that the law is stable and has long-term value.
Practical issues that change frequently are assigned to the Government, ministries, branches and localities to regulate for flexibility in management, in accordance with reality. Promote decentralization and delegation of power; thoroughly reform administrative procedures, promptly remove obstacles, solve practical problems, take people and businesses as the center and subject. Focus on ensuring the consistency and uniformity of the legal system, policy consistency, and value quality, not quantity.
Nguyen Hoang
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