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| The National Assembly held a plenary session in the hall on the afternoon of May 23. |
On Wednesday, May 24, the National Assembly held a plenary session in the hall.
In the morning, National Assembly deputies listened to the State budget settlement report for 2021; State budget settlement audit report for 2021;
Report on the audit of the 2021 state budget settlement; Report on explanation, acceptance and revision of the draft Law on Bidding (amended).
After that, the National Assembly discussed a number of contents with different opinions of the draft Law on Bidding (amended).
In the afternoon, National Assembly deputies listened to the Submission and Verification Report on continuing to implement the policy of reducing value added tax by 2% according to Resolution No. 43/2022/QH15 dated January 11, 2022;
Submission and Review Report on the decision on investment policy for the traffic project from National Highway 27C to Provincial Road DT.656, Khanh Hoa Province - connecting with Lam Dong and Ninh Thuan;
Report on explanation, acceptance and revision of the draft Law on Civil Defense.
Afterwards, the National Assembly discussed in the hall a number of contents with different opinions of the Civil Defense Law project.
The session was broadcast live on Vietnam National Assembly Television.
* Law on Bidding No. 43/2013/QH13 was passed by the 13th National Assembly at the 6th Session, effective from July 1, 2014.
After 8 years of implementation, the Law on Bidding together with the system of guiding documents has created an important legal basis, contributing to improving the efficiency of using state capital on the principles of equal competition, publicity and transparency in selecting contractors to implement investment projects, public procurement, and management and use of state capital and assets.
However, the implementation of the Law on Bidding in recent times has revealed many limitations, difficulties and problems such as: Some provisions of the Law are not suitable for practice or the provisions are not complete, leading to difficulties in selecting contractors, especially in urgent cases, disease prevention, and emergency construction.
The process and procedures for selecting contractors are still complicated, the time for selecting contractors is long, affecting the progress of investment and public procurement implementation; Regulations on decentralization, delegation of authority, determination of authority and responsibility of subjects in the bidding process, contractor selection in some cases are not complete and clear;...
To promptly overcome the above shortcomings, at the 4th Session of the 15th National Assembly, the Government submitted to the National Assembly for the first comments on the draft Law on Bidding (amended). Accordingly, the draft Law on Bidding (amended) was developed on the basis of 5 policy groups in the Proposal for Law making approved by the National Assembly and the Government, including 10 Chapters and 98 Articles.
Compared with the 2013 Law on Bidding, this Law has amended 75 articles, added 21 new articles, kept 2 articles, and abolished 12 articles.
On April 6, at the Conference of full-time National Assembly deputies, deputies gave their opinions on the draft Law on Bidding (amended) before submitting it to the National Assembly for comments at the 5th Session of the 15th National Assembly.
The majority of delegates assessed that this draft law has been seriously accepted and revised, approaching the criteria of transparency and integrity. However, the provisions on bidding designation are the content that continues to receive attention and comments to complete the draft law.
* The Draft Law on Civil Defense has been commented on by the National Assembly Standing Committee at 3 meetings. The content of the law has profound significance and scope of impact on many aspects of social life, on the safety of people, the community or the entire economy.
On the other hand, this is a broad and complex draft law, involving many fields and many current legal documents.
Therefore, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly has directed the development of laws in the direction of regulating principles, mechanisms and general policies on civil defense, specific contents, and missing contents in the legal system related to civil defense, fully institutionalizing Resolution No. 22 of the Politburo on civil defense.
The process of receiving and revising requires careful review to ensure strict, specific and clear regulations, avoiding overlap and contradiction with relevant legal documents, ensuring consistency in the legal system and feasibility.
On April 6, at the conference of specialized National Assembly deputies to review and give opinions on a number of major issues with different opinions on the draft Law on Civil Defense, National Assembly deputies said that merging the Steering Committees and Command Committees on civil defense is necessary to reduce the number of focal points and improve operational efficiency.
The draft law submitted to the full-time National Assembly deputies at this conference has 7 chapters and 57 articles. Compared to the draft law submitted to the National Assembly at the 4th Session, 14 articles have been reduced; at the same time, many contents have been revised, newly supplemented and the articles and sections in the chapters of the draft law have been rearranged and restructured to be reasonable and consistent.
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