Provincial National Assembly Delegation: Collecting comments on the draft Law on Archives (amended)

On October 10, the National Assembly Delegation of the province held a conference to collect comments on the draft Law on Archives (amended), expected to be submitted to the National Assembly for comments at the 6th session of the 15th National Assembly. Comrade Dang Thi My Huong, Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation of the province chaired the conference.

The draft Law on Public Administration (amended) consists of 9 chapters and 68 articles; an increase of 2 chapters and 26 articles compared to the 2011 Law on Public Administration (7 chapters and 42 articles). Of which, there are 38 new articles regulating the content, mainly on the authority to manage public administration documents and public administration document databases, public administration electronic documents and digital documents, promoting the value of public administration documents and private public administration activities. There are 28 articles amended and supplemented based on the provisions of the 2011 Law on Public Administration to ensure consistency with the context of e-Government, Digital Government, digital public administration platform, Digital Transformation, public administration of electronic documents, public administration socialization and international cooperation on public administration. There are 2 basic articles that remain the same as the provisions of the 2011 Law on Public Administration regarding the rights and obligations of agencies, organizations and individuals in the use of public administration documents and their enforcement.

Delegates attending the Conference gave their opinions on the draft Law on Archives (amended).

At the conference, delegates basically agreed with the content of the draft law and gave additional comments on the following issues: It is necessary to supplement the provisions on sanctions corresponding to the 6 prohibited acts in Article 6, Chapter I; it is necessary to add a section on historical LT responsibilities; it is recommended to add more rights, purchase, sale, exchange, and transfer of ownership of LT documents of special value; the draft needs to stipulate more clearly about electronic LT, as well as the work of ensuring information security for electronic LT documents; increase the responsibility of organizations and individuals in private LT activities...

On behalf of the National Assembly Delegation, the Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation acknowledged and highly appreciated the opinions of the delegates; at the same time, he will synthesize them to submit to the National Assembly in the coming time.

Duy Nam

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