Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting to draft a law to amend many laws.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the law must ensure citizens' rights to invest and do business; remove as much as possible obstacles and shortcomings in practice, and expand mechanisms for mobilizing social resources...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs a meeting of the Government Standing Committee to discuss a number of laws submitted to the National Assembly. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

On the afternoon of September 11, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the Government Standing Committee meeting on law making, in which he considered making 1 Law to amend and supplement 7 Laws to overcome limitations, remove obstacles, create a legal framework, and facilitate development.

Attending the meeting were Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc; Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies; leaders of relevant ministries, branches and agencies.

At the meeting, the Government Standing Committee and ministries and branches reviewed, discussed and gave opinions on: Draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Securities Law, Accounting Law, Independent Audit Law, State Budget Law, Law on Management and Use of Public Assets, Tax Management Law, National Reserve Law; Proposal to develop a Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents (amended).

Discussing and giving opinions on the documents, procedures, submission procedures, principles and requirements for law making, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh basically agreed with the content of the proposed policies, and at the same time emphasized a number of points that need to be noted to complete the construction of the above Laws.

Regarding the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the State Budget Law, the Law on Management and Use of Public Assets, the Law on National Reserves, the Law on Accounting, the Law on Independent Auditing, the Law on Securities, and the Law on Tax Administration, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested the Ministry of Finance to fully absorb appropriate opinions; continue to coordinate with relevant agencies and units to carefully review and complete the content of the draft Law, and report to the Government at the Special Session on Law-making in September 2024.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the development of the Law must ensure citizens' rights to invest and do business; remove as much as possible obstacles and shortcomings in practice, expand the mechanism for mobilizing social resources, people and businesses for development, take public investment as the lead, and activate private investment; promote maximum decentralization and delegation of authority along with resource allocation, improve enforcement capacity, clearly define the responsibilities of individuals and collectives, and design tools to strengthen inspection and supervision.

Along with that, promote the application of digital transformation, cut down on administrative procedures and hassles, avoid the mechanism of asking and giving in budget revenue and expenditure management, operate flexibly and effectively in budget use, especially between the central and local budgets; prevent corruption, negativity, and waste; payment documents must be manageable but transparent...

Regarding the Proposal to develop the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents (amended), the Prime Minister emphasized the need to strengthen the Party's leadership in law-making work; the viewpoint of innovating the thinking of law-making, responding quickly and flexibly to rapid developments and urgent requirements in practice; depending on the subject and scope of regulation, to develop framework or detailed regulations in the law to both manage activities in society and create space to promote and encourage innovation; innovate the law-making process in a more flexible direction, research to shorten the time; decentralize and delegate more power; have mechanisms and policies suitable for the team of law-making officials; principles of applying legal documents when there are conflicting documents...

According to the Prime Minister, what is ripe, clear, proven to be correct in practice, effectively implemented, and agreed by the majority should continue to be implemented and legalized; for new, immature, unclear, and unregulated issues, boldly pilot them, learn from experience as you go, and gradually expand, without perfectionism or haste.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Justice to absorb the conclusions of the Government Standing Committee, opinions of agencies at the meeting and opinions of Government members, promptly coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies to study and complete the Proposal to develop the Law, and submit it to the Government at the Special Session on Law Development in September 2024./.

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