Opening of the 33rd Session of the National Assembly Standing Committee

On the morning of May 13, at the National Assembly House, the 33rd session of the National Assembly Standing Committee opened under the chairmanship of Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man (directing the activities of the National Assembly Standing Committee and the National Assembly).

Session view.

Speaking at the opening of the meeting, National Assembly Standing Vice Chairman Tran Thanh Man said that it is expected that within 3 working days, the National Assembly Standing Committee will give opinions, consider and decide on 14 groups of contents and give written opinions on 5 groups of contents.

First, the National Assembly Standing Committee focused on giving opinions on the contents expected to be submitted to the National Assembly at the 7th Session.

In particular, regarding legislative work, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the draft Law on Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Rescue; the draft Resolution amending and supplementing Resolution No. 119/2020/QH14 of the National Assembly on piloting the organization of an urban government model and a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Da Nang City and the draft Resolution on piloting the addition of a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Nghe An province.

These contents were agreed by the National Assembly Standing Committee to be added to the 2024 Law and Ordinance Development Program at the 32nd Session (April 2024); for the draft 2 Resolutions, the Politburo has issued resolutions and conclusions.

Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man delivered the opening speech at the meeting.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly requested the National Assembly Standing Committee to comment on the dossier and contents of each project and draft; focusing on reviewing whether the project and draft have fully institutionalized the Party's policies; whether they closely follow the goals and guiding viewpoints in developing the project and draft; the constitutionality, legality, and consistency with the legal system; the content of each policy, especially new policies, difficult and complicated issues, with adjustments and supplements compared to the content proposed by the Government when submitting to the National Assembly Standing Committee for consideration and inclusion in the Law and Ordinance Development Program, etc.

Regarding supervision work, socio-economic issues, and state budget, the National Assembly Standing Committee will discuss at the meeting 5 periodic reports submitted to the National Assembly, including: Report on additional assessment of the results of the implementation of socio-economic development tasks and state budget in 2023, the implementation of the socio-economic development plan and state budget in the first months of 2024; Report on the state budget settlement in 2022 (including the content of the report on the implementation of the provisions in Clause 6, Article 3 of Resolution No. 91, Resolution No. 94 of the National Assembly on tax debt relief, debt cancellation of late payment fines, late payment fees for taxpayers who are no longer able to pay the state budget); Report on the practice of thrift and anti-waste in 2023; Report on the results of supervision of the settlement and response to voters' petitions sent to the 6th Session of the 15th National Assembly; Report synthesizing opinions and recommendations of voters and people sent to the 7th Session, 15th National Assembly.

In addition to the reports discussed directly at the session, the National Assembly Standing Committee also gave written opinions on a number of other reports.

Regarding important issues, the National Assembly Standing Committee will give opinions on four contents including: National marine spatial planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050; investment policy for the National Target Program on Cultural Development for the 2025-2035 period; allocation of the medium-term public investment plan of state budget capital for the 2021-2025 period and the 2024 capital plan for tasks and projects using the increased central budget revenue in 2022 that have completed investment procedures; ratification of the document of accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (this content has just been added to the meeting agenda).

Also at the meeting, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave final comments on preparations for the 7th Session; at the same time, conducted a summary of the 7th extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly according to regulations.

Delegates attending the meeting.

Along with that, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions and decided on 2 contents under its authority, including: giving opinions on the highest military rank for a number of positions and titles of officers who are generals under the Ministry of National Defense according to the provisions of Clause 4, Article 15 of the Law on Officers of the Vietnam People's Army; reviewing the National Assembly's Report on People's Petitions in April 2024 (this content is arranged for consideration together with the content on the Report on the results of monitoring the settlement and response to voters' petitions sent to the 6th Session).

The Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly emphasized that this is a meeting for the National Assembly Standing Committee to review and consider the remaining contents before submitting them to the National Assembly at the 7th Session, as well as to consider the conditions to ensure the Session. To ensure the quality and progress of sending documents on the contents of the 7th Session, on May 8, the National Assembly Standing Committee issued two documents requesting agencies to urgently complete the contents under their responsibility to soon send them to National Assembly deputies for study and comments.

Noting that the workload of the 33rd Session is relatively large, the session will only last 3 days, the agencies in charge of reviewing, the agencies in charge of drafting, together with relevant agencies, have closely coordinated and actively prepared the contents to submit to the National Assembly Standing Committee for comments at the session. The Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly requested that members of the National Assembly Standing Committee promote a sense of responsibility, focus on thorough research and actively participate in the contents of the session.

Next, under the direction of Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Duc Hai, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the Report on supplementary assessment of the results of the implementation of socio-economic development tasks and the state budget in 2023; the implementation of the socio-economic development plan and the state budget in the first months of 2024.

Xuan Hoa (according to nhandan.vn)

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