The National Assembly delegation of Dak Lak province participated in giving comments and discussing the organization.

Within the framework of the 9th Extraordinary Session, on February 12, the National Assembly Delegation of Dak Lak province contributed many opinions to the discussion group on the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the National Assembly and the draft Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents (amended).

The delegates basically agreed with the determination of the scope of amendments and supplements to the Law on the Organization of the National Assembly as stated in the Report. In order to meet the requirements of streamlining and streamlining the state apparatus, the delegates said that in this amendment, it is necessary to focus mainly on the regulations on the agencies of the National Assembly, agencies under the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Office of the National Assembly; on the division of authority between the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee and the authority of the Government. At the same time, combine amendments and supplements to a number of contents related to the activities of the National Assembly, the agencies of the National Assembly and National Assembly deputies, which, through summarizing practical activities, have arisen problems and inadequacies.

Group discussion session scene (Photo: quochoi.vn).

Delegate Nguyen Thi Xuan - Major General, Deputy Director of Dak Lak Provincial Police proposed to add to the draft amendment of Article 21 of the law on the position and role of full-time National Assembly deputies. According to the delegate, under current regulations, full-time National Assembly deputies still have the same duties, powers, and legal status as other deputies. Therefore, it is necessary to add regulations to more clearly define the legal position of full-time National Assembly deputies in the political system in order to create conditions for full-time National Assembly deputies to continue to promote their role and effectiveness in the activities of the National Assembly, National Assembly agencies, and National Assembly delegations in localities.

In addition, regarding the standards of National Assembly deputies stipulated in Article 22, delegate Nguyen Thi Xuan suggested adding a clause on standards and specific regulations for full-time National Assembly deputies - in addition to the general standards of National Assembly deputies stipulated in Article 22, in order to further improve the quality of National Assembly deputies, especially full-time National Assembly deputies.

Regarding the draft Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents (amended), delegates highly appreciated the Ministry of Justice's proactive, positive, diligent, and responsible preparation of the draft Law dossier, ensuring completeness and on schedule according to regulations.

Contributing opinions to the draft Law, delegate Nguyen Thi Thu Nguyet - Deputy Head of the Delegation in charge of the National Assembly Delegation of Dak Lak province affirmed that after 10 years of implementing the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents, it has created a basic legal corridor to contribute to promoting the socio-economic development of the country, creating favorable conditions to solve problems arising from local realities. However, the process of implementing the Law also revealed a number of shortcomings and limitations, especially in the face of current requirements, the Government's submission of the draft Law at this session is very necessary, with many new issues compared to the current law.

Regarding the contribution of opinions on social criticism, consultation, and comments on policies of draft legal documents as stipulated in Article 6, delegate Nguyen Thi Thu Nguyet clearly stated that in Clause 3, agencies, organizations, and individuals have the right and are given conditions to participate in contributing opinions on policies of draft legal documents; in which the Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry participates in contributing opinions on policies of draft legal documents related to the rights and obligations of enterprises.

The delegate said that we should not limit ourselves to only focusing on the Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry to participate in giving opinions and collecting opinions, but at the local level, we can refer to many similar organizations such as the Provincial Business Association, the Young Entrepreneurs Association... in the process of collecting opinions on related contents when issuing legal documents while still ensuring legality.

Regarding the assessment of policy impact in Article 29, Clause 3 stipulates gender impact (if any), Clause 4 stipulates the impact of administrative procedures (if any), the delegate said that if the word "if any" is included, it could lead to agencies advising on the drafting and promulgation of legal documents to include this content or not depending on each case. According to the delegate, this needs to be determined as mandatory, when promulgating legal documents, it is necessary to assess the impact of many aspects, including gender impact assessment, assessment of administrative procedure impact...

Delegate Luu Van Duc - Standing Member of the National Assembly's Ethnic Council speaks at the discussion group (Photo captured via screen).

Concerned about ensuring ethnic policies in the draft Law, delegate Luu Van Duc - Standing member of the National Assembly's Ethnic Council emphasized that in the documents of the National Party Congresses of each term, the issue of ethnicity and great national unity is of special importance, a fundamental, long-term and urgent strategic issue. Ethnic minority and mountainous areas are areas with strategic positions in the cause of industrialization, modernization, national construction and defense; they are the basis and important driving force for sustainable socio-economic development, maintaining political stability, ensuring security and defense, preserving and promoting ethnic cultural identity and protecting the ecological environment. Ethnic policies must ensure the principles of equality, solidarity, respect and mutual assistance for development of ethnic groups.

Similar to the impact on gender and administrative procedures, ethnic policies need to be assessed for their impacts in a more general and specific manner, not just on socio-economic issues. Therefore, the delegate suggested that the drafting agency should specify the content in the documents according to regulations, add a separate clause in Article 29 of the draft Law on the content of impacts in the implementation of ethnic policies (if any), the assessment is carried out on the basis of equality, solidarity among ethnic groups, creating favorable conditions for ethnic minorities to promote their internal strength to develop together with the country.

The delegate said that according to the provisions of Clause 3, Article 75 of the 2013 Constitution, when issuing regulations to implement ethnic policies, the Government must seek opinions from the Ethnic Council. This is a provision of the Constitution, showing the difference in the duties and powers of the Ethnic Council with other agencies of the National Assembly. Therefore, the delegate suggested that the drafting agency should specify the contents of Clause 3, Article 75 of the 2013 Constitution in the draft Law. Accordingly, it is proposed to add the content of seeking opinions from the Ethnic Council on ethnic policies (if any) to Articles 6 and 30 of the draft Law.

The delegate also suggested that the drafting agency should study more specific regulations on the responsibility of participating in legal documents for agencies, organizations and localities to overcome the situation of little or no interest in investing in research and commenting on draft legal documents, leading to the situation where when legal documents have been issued, they are proposed to amend and supplement during the implementation process...

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