On the afternoon of September 28, at the Government Headquarters, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Steering Committee for reviewing and handling difficulties in the system of legal documents, chaired the third meeting of the Steering Committee.
According to VNA, concluding the meeting, the Prime Minister requested members of the Steering Committee to closely follow the operating regulations, contents, plans and activities of the Steering Committee to participate in contributing efforts and intelligence to reviewing and handling problems in the system of legal documents.
Ministers and heads of sectors focus on directing decisively and effectively, concentrating human resources, financial resources, and facilities on the work of building and perfecting legal institutions.
This includes reviewing and handling obstacles in the system of legal documents to unblock and mobilize resources for development, helping to accelerate and make a breakthrough in completing the socio-economic development targets for 2024 and the goals set by the 13th National Party Congress.
The construction and improvement of legal institutions must focus on removing obstacles; further promoting decentralization and delegation of power; reducing administrative procedures, reducing inconvenience for people and businesses, eliminating the mechanism of asking and giving; with a breakthrough mindset, strategic vision, and long-term development.
The central government and ministries and branches only focus on building laws, institutions, mechanisms, policies, strategies, plans and programs; promoting decentralization, along with resource allocation, improving the implementation capacity of lower levels and designing inspection and supervision tools; localities decide, localities do, localities are responsible.
The Prime Minister noted that the review and handling of problems in the system of legal documents in particular and the building and perfecting of institutions and laws in general must be timely and of high quality; in the process of building laws, close coordination must be maintained with the agencies of the National Assembly.
The Prime Minister noted that, depending on the relationship of the law, some contents must be detailed and specific, some provisions must be general in nature, especially those issues with many fluctuations, then assigned to the authorities from the central to local levels to implement.
The Head of Government requested that along with handling difficulties and inadequacies in 5 laws: Law on Cultivation 2018, Law on Environmental Protection, Law on Natural Resources, Environment of Sea and Islands, Law on Organization of Government, Law on Organization of Local Government, ministries and branches urgently develop a law to amend many laws related to public investment; develop the Law on Management and Use of State Capital Invested in Production and Business at Enterprises (amended) to remove difficulties and free up resources for development, especially in difficult times.
For draft laws that are not yet included in the 2025 law and ordinance development program and plan, they will be summarized during the law review process to study and handle them according to legal regulations.
