Politburo member, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh - Head of the Steering Committee for the arrangement of administrative units at all levels and the development of a model of organizing local government at both levels - has signed and issued Plan No. 40/KH-BCD assigning amending, supplementing, and promulgating legal documents (Lural Decree) to end the operation of district-level and local government organizations at both levels.
According to Plan No. 40/KH-BCD, ministries and ministerial-level agencies by sector and management field preside over and coordinate to focus on reviewing legal documents according to the list of legal documents containing regulations related to the tasks and powers of local authorities at district level and other related legal documents.
Based on the results of the review, determine the contents that need to be amended, supplemented or newly issued VBQPPL to end the operation of local government at the district level and local government organizations at the two levels.
Ministries and ministerial-level agencies must complete the review, propose plans, determine the contents that need to be amended, supplemented or issue a new legal documents, and send them to the Ministry of Justice before April 20, 2025. The Ministry of Justice synthesizes the review results and reports to the Government before April 30, 2025.
Amend, supplement or issue new ones according to authority or propose competent authorities to issue legal documents under the assigned management sectors and fields
The plan stated that the content of the Decree should clearly state the delimitation of tasks, powers and administrative procedures from the district authorities to the provincial level and from the district level to degraded the commune.
Combined with clearly defining the decentralization of tasks, powers, processes, and procedures for decentralization from the Central (Government, Prime Minister, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies) to provincial-level authorities.
The plan includes a list and assigns ministries and ministerial-level agencies to preside over the drafting of the Government's decree on decentralization and division of authority in the sectors and fields assigned for management related to the termination of the operation of district-level local governments and the organization of local governments at both levels.
In particular, the Ministry of National Defense is assigned to preside over the development of a Decree regulating decentralization and division of authority in the fields of national defense, military, command of the People's Army, and militia when organizing local government at 2 levels. The deadline for submission to the Government is before May 30, 2025.
Regarding this content, on April 18, the Ministry of Defense held a conference to implement the Plan of reviewing the Laboratory of the State Management of the Ministry of Defense according to the Party's policies and guidelines on the orientation of arranging and organizational structure of the political system and the scheme to organize the Vietnam People's Army.
According to the report at the conference, as of April 14, there were 69 documents that needed to be amended and supplemented, including: 11 Laws; 21 Decrees of the Government; 3 Decisions of the Prime Minister and 34 ministerial-level documents reviewed according to the orientation on the arrangement of local government at 2 levels.
According to the review results, the Legal Department - Ministry of National Defense proposed a handling plan for 11 Laws related to the organization of local government at 2 levels as "one law amending many laws"; for the Prime Minister's Decisions, it is also the plan for "one decision amending many decisions" and for ministerial-level documents (public opinions, joint circulars) is also "one circular amending many circulars".
For 21 decrees, the proposed plan is to build 3 decrees to solve problems that need to be amended and supplemented.
