Presenting the report at the meeting, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung said that the Draft Law consists of 7 chapters and 116 articles (amending 53 articles, adding 22 articles, and abolishing 7 articles compared to the 2019 Law on Public Investment), with the main contents to specify 5 major policy groups.
The policy group institutionalizes pilot and specific mechanisms and policies that have been approved by the National Assembly, including allowing the separation of compensation, support, resettlement, and site clearance into independent projects for all project groups (including group B and C projects).
With the policy group on continuing to promote decentralization, delegation of authority, and delegation of authority to adjust the medium-term and annual public investment plan of central budget capital among ministries, central and local agencies from the National Assembly Standing Committee to the Prime Minister.
Decentralize the authority to decide on the use of central budget capital reserves, increased revenue capital, central budget expenditure savings, and unallocated central budget capital in the medium-term and annual public investment plan from the National Assembly to the National Assembly Standing Committee.
The draft Law also stipulates the decentralization of authority to the Chairman of the People's Committee at all levels to decide on investment policies for Group A projects with capital scale of less than 10,000 billion VND, Group B and Group C managed by localities.
Reporting on the review of the Draft Law, Chairman of the National Assembly's Finance and Budget Committee Le Quang Manh said that regarding the separation of compensation, support, resettlement, and site clearance into independent projects, the majority of opinions agreed with this proposal of the Government. However, it is necessary to stipulate that site clearance must be linked to investment to complete the project, not to waste land, and the total time for arranging capital to implement 2 independent projects to complete the programs and projects must not exceed the time limit prescribed in the current Law.
Regarding the decentralization of authority to the Chairmen of People's Committees at all levels to decide on project investment policies, the Standing Committee of the Finance and Budget Committee and the Standing Committee of the Law Committee believe that decentralization as in the draft Law is a major change, requiring careful and comprehensive research and impact assessment, placed in the context of other policies related to the issue of collective responsibility and individual responsibility.
According to Chairman Le Quang Manh, deciding on investment policies for projects is an important issue for localities, so the current Law on Public Investment stipulates that the People's Council decides on investment policies for projects, and the Chairman of the People's Committee at the same level decides on investment projects, which is a measure to control power. If it is stipulated that the Chairman of the People's Committee at all levels is both the person deciding on investment policies for projects and the person deciding on project investment, it does not ensure objectivity.
Discussing at the meeting, the National Assembly Standing Committee assessed that the content of the amendment to the Law on Public Investment has fully and comprehensively specified 5 major policy groups, deeply demonstrating the spirit of breakthrough, reform, decentralization and delegation of power of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, the National Assembly and the Government according to the motto "locality decides, locality does, locality takes responsibility"; the Central Committee, the National Assembly and the Government play a role in creating, strengthening institutional improvement and inspection and supervision; ensuring clear people, clear work, clear responsibilities, clear results; cutting down and simplifying administrative procedures, not allowing responsibility to be passed on, avoiding creating a "request-grant" mechanism...
According to Chairman of the National Assembly's Law Committee Hoang Thanh Tung, the decentralization and delegation of authority regulations need to clarify the implementation responsibilities of lower-level agencies and the inspection and supervision responsibilities of higher-level agencies. The regulation on decentralization of authority to the Chairman of the People's Committee at all levels to decide on project investment policies is "a shift from the decision of the collective, the state power agency at the local level to the decision of an individual", so this is a major issue that needs to be carefully evaluated and requires local opinions.
“If all decision-making authority is given to the chairmen of the People’s Committees at all levels, public investment will be faster, but we are very concerned about controlling power and ensuring transparency and objectivity in implementation,” said Chairman Hoang Thanh Tung. At the same time, the current Law has provisions allowing the People’s Council, if necessary, to assign the People’s Committee at the same level to decide on investment policies, so it is necessary to report on the implementation of this policy in the past.
Concluding the meeting, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Duc Hai said that in case the draft Law is prepared with good quality, the discussion process at the National Assembly shows that the contents are clear and reach high consensus, the National Assembly Standing Committee will consider and coordinate with the Government to submit it to the National Assembly for approval at the 8th Session according to the procedure at a session in the spirit of amending a number of necessary and urgent regulations or issuing a pilot resolution for a number of policies.
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