Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha emphasized this requirement at a meeting to listen to reports and give opinions on the Draft Decree regulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (the new Ministry after merging the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), on the afternoon of February 4.
According to the report of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the development of the Draft Decree regulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (Draft Decree) was carried out urgently and seriously; ensuring the constitutionality, legality and consistency of the system of legal documents.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment is a multi-sectoral, multi-field ministry, ensuring that after the merger, the Ministry will immediately come into operation, operate smoothly and continuously, without any legal gaps; closely follow the viewpoints, goals, principles and orientations of the Central Steering Committee and the Government Steering Committee on summarizing the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW; be suitable to the country's context and requirements and tasks in the coming time; ensure a harmonious combination between inheritance, stability and innovation and development, ensuring the comprehensiveness, synchronization, regular and continuous implementation of the state administrative system.
In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment continues to focus on macro-management, strengthen decentralization and delegation of power, and promote inspection, examination, and control of power in the implementation of policies and laws in the field of state management of the Ministry.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment performs state management functions currently assigned to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Specifically, it performs the state management functions of: Agriculture; forestry; salt industry; fisheries; irrigation; natural disaster prevention; rural development; land; water resources; geology and minerals; environment; hydrometeorology; climate change; surveying and mapping; remote sensing; integrated management of resources and protection of the marine and island environment; state management of public services in the fields under the Ministry's management.
The organizational structure of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has been rearranged, consolidated, and reorganized from 26 units under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and 27 units under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development into 30 units. According to Deputy Minister of Justice Dang Hoang Oanh, this is one of the ministries with the most streamlined focal points.
The arrangement and assignment of personnel is carried out synchronously with the arrangement of the organizational apparatus and associated with the restructuring and improvement of the quality of the staff, civil servants and public employees of the new Ministry after the merger, ensuring stability, rationality, and suitability in terms of capacity, qualifications, and work expertise with the job position of the unit, while paying attention to implementing the personnel policy according to regulations.
At the meeting, leaders of the Ministries of Justice, Finance, Natural Resources and Environment, Agriculture and Rural Development... basically agreed with the content of the Draft Decree, and at the same time contributed comments to clarify some contents on poverty reduction, management of clean water projects in rural areas, special financial and income mechanisms for some units under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment...
Concluding the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha emphasized that the Draft Decree not only mechanically gathers the content of the two decrees regulating the functions, tasks and powers of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, but also needs to update and supplement new legal regulations and new management ideas on land, resources, environment, agriculture, etc.
Reiterating the principle of "not assigning one job to two people", the Deputy Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to coordinate with the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Home Affairs, and the Government Office to review the provisions of the Law assigning the Government to prescribe functions, tasks, and powers related to the management areas of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, without overlapping or gaps.
The Deputy Prime Minister noted that the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment must set out very clear tasks and functions to meet practical requirements and demands in promoting the green transformation process, protecting the environment before all economic and social activities, implementing sustainable, multi-purpose agricultural economic transformation, ensuring food security, etc.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the organization of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment must be based on a review of assigned functions and tasks; at the same time, it must resolve overlapping and duplication issues in state management between ministries, between the central and local levels, between state management agencies and public service units and enterprises. "Comrades also need to urgently develop criteria, titles, positions and jobs suitable for the work of each department and division," the Deputy Prime Minister noted.
The Deputy Prime Minister also gave his opinion on the proposal on regulations on the transitional activities of a number of public service units that are no longer under the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment; financial mechanisms and specific income for the fields (veterinary medicine, animal husbandry, cultivation, plant protection, quality management of agricultural, forestry and fishery products); and the reception of poverty reduction tasks from the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The Deputy Prime Minister requested the leaders of the two Ministries of Natural Resources and Environment and Agriculture and Rural Development to promptly absorb and complete the Draft Decree, submit it to the Government for consideration so that it can be promulgated and take effect immediately after the National Assembly issues a resolution to establish the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (the new Ministry after merging the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development).
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