Proposing the Government to regulate the conditions and time of collecting highway tolls

Continuing the 34th Session on June 11, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on explaining, accepting and revising the draft Road Law.

Reporting on a number of major issues regarding the explanation, reception and revision of the draft Law at the Session, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee on National Defense and Security Le Tan Toi stated that, based on the opinions of National Assembly deputies and the opinions of agencies during the revision process, to be consistent with reality, the Standing Committee of the National Defense and Security Committee agreed with the Drafting Committee to propose that the National Assembly Standing Committee revise Clause 4, Article 8 in the direction of clearly defining the responsibility for road management of the Provincial People's Committee, and at the same time assigning the Provincial People's Committee to regulate the management of types of roads under local management.

Chairman of the National Assembly's Defense and Security Committee Le Tan Toi.

This regulation basically inherits the current regulations on management of local roads that have been stably implemented according to the 2008 Road Traffic Law; at the same time, it increases the initiative of the Provincial People's Committee in assigning the management of local roads to district and commune authorities, ensuring that the assignment of management is directly linked to the grassroots authorities.

Accordingly, amend Clause 4, Article 28, Clause 2, Article 37 to stipulate the responsibility for investment in construction, management, operation, exploitation, and maintenance of roads in accordance with the road management level as prescribed in Article 8 of the draft Law.

Regarding investment, construction and development of expressways, Mr. Le Tan Toi said that, based on the agreement with the Drafting Committee and relevant agencies, the Standing Committee of the National Defense and Security Committee proposed that the Standing Committee of the National Assembly supplement paragraph 2, clause 5, Article 47 to stipulate the content in the direction: "In case of deciding to separate a project into sub-projects and component projects, the investment policy decision-making authority shall decide to assign a presiding agency to be responsible for organizing the implementation of the project to ensure the overall and synchronous nature of the entire project; responsible for reviewing, harmonizing, balancing and unifying the adjustment of the total investment between sub-projects and component projects, ensuring that it does not exceed the preliminary total investment of the entire project for which the investment policy has been decided".

Regarding highway usage fees, the Standing Committee of the National Defense and Security Committee proposed that the Standing Committee of the National Assembly add Clause 3 to Article 50, specifically as follows: “3. The Government shall prescribe the conditions and time for collecting highway usage fees; the collection of highway usage fees in the cases specified in Clause 1 of this Article that do not meet the provisions in Clause 1, Article 45 and Clause 2, Article 47 of this Law”.

In addition, Mr. Toi said, to ensure compliance with the authority to invest and manage highways, and to be consistent with the law on fees and charges, the Standing Committee of the National Defense and Security Committee and the Drafting Committee proposed that the National Assembly Standing Committee amend Clause 1, Article 84 of the draft Law to add the content of assigning the People's Council at the provincial level to regulate highway usage fees for highways invested by localities.

The National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on explaining, accepting and revising the draft Road Law.

In his concluding remarks, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Quang Phuong requested the Drafting Agency and the Agency in charge of reviewing to study, absorb, and report to more clearly explain a number of contents:

Regarding road classification by management level, it is recommended to review Clause 3 and Clause 4, Article 8 on management decentralization to be consistent with Clause 3 and Clause 4, Article 28 on decentralization and delegation of authority to local authorities.

Regarding land funds for road infrastructure, it is recommended to carefully review the regulations to ensure generality, not too detailed as in the current Law, suitable for each type of urban area, suitable for current conditions and with an implementation roadmap as well as future forecasts, suitable for new urban areas, old urban areas, research to stipulate transitional conditions in sync with the National Assembly's Resolutions on urban classification.

It is recommended that the National Defense and Security Committee coordinate with the Law Committee and the Drafting Agency to revise Article 12 in general terms, without providing too much detail to avoid difficulties in implementation.

Regarding investment, construction, development of highways, smart traffic issues and additional issues, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Quang Phuong suggested that the Drafting Agency continue to add more.

Regarding highway toll collection, it is proposed to add Clause 3, Article 50, assigning the Government to specify in detail the conditions and time for implementing highway toll collection .

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