Increasing the role of the leader
The Draft Law on Savings and Combat Wastefulness was of interest, commented on and discussed by many delegates. Accordingly, the draft Law specifically stipulates 7 groups of rights and responsibilities of heads of agencies and organizations and 6 groups of rights and responsibilities of cadres, civil servants and public employees in the State sector.
Notably, the head of an agency or organization must take personal responsibility if he/she does not implement or does not comply with the provisions of the law on preventing and combating waste or causes wasteful behavior within the scope of management.
At the meeting, delegate Dang Thi My Huong (Khanh Hoa National Assembly Delegation) said that waste is still common, from budget management, public investment, public assets to organizational structure and employment.
According to delegate Huong, the core content of the bill is publicity and transparency. The disclosure of violations and handling results along with information about individuals and organizations that violate is a new regulation, increasing deterrence and helping people monitor.
Protecting people fighting against waste
Delegate Mai Van Hai (National Assembly Delegation of Thanh Hoa Province) said that the new draft Law only explains the practice of thrift and combating waste in the public sector, the rest for the private sector and the people have not explained. While the contents of the draft Law mention many contents of thrift and combating waste for people and production and business activities. Therefore, it is necessary to explain more clearly the issue of saving and combating waste for the people.
Commenting on the concept of waste, according to delegate Nguyen Thi Mai Thoa (Hai Phong National Assembly Delegation), the concept of waste as in the draft Law has not fully covered waste cases in practice. Because, there may be cases of implementing the correct norms, standards, and regimes, achieving the set goals, while not creating barriers to socio-economic development and not missing opportunities for national development, but not the optimal solution in management.
Delegate Thoa gave an example of the cost of establishing a Valuation Council or the bidding for liquidation of old state assets that can far exceed the value of assets subject to liquidation. Therefore, in this case, there may be more flexible and optimal options to save State assets. From there, this delegate suggested that the concept of waste should be regulated more comprehensively in the direction of combining waste of human resources, time as well as other costs of society.
Meanwhile, delegate Nguyen Minh Tam (Quang Tri National Assembly Delegation) was interested in the regulation on providing and handling information on waste detection and protection of people fighting against waste. According to delegate Tam, these are very important contents but the design in the draft law is not suitable. This delegate suggested studying and clarifying the rights and responsibilities of agencies, organizations and individuals in providing information on waste detection because this content is still regulated in general and not clear.
Livestream platforms and platforms must compensate for promoting counterfeit and harmful goods
Commenting on the draft Law on E-commerce, delegate Trinh Thi Tu Anh (Lam Dong National Assembly Delegation) warned that there are many risks such as counterfeit goods, fake goods, and untrue advertisements when shopping on e-commerce platforms and livestreaming.
This delegate suggested that the draft law should add a provision that e-commerce platforms and livestream platforms must proactively be responsible for compensating for damages in cases where products promoted through the platform's priority display algorithm are determined to be fake or harmful to consumers.
"Such a regulation will create strong financial motivation, forcing platforms to screen content more carefully, instead of letting fake and poor quality goods be publicly sold on the platforms" - the female delegate Lam Dong emphasized.
