This morning (June 16), in Hanoi, the National Assembly Standing Committee chaired and coordinated with the Government to organize a Conference to implement the Legislative Guidelines for the 16th National Assembly term.
Speaking at the Conference, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister Le Tien Chau affirmed that this is an opportunity for agencies in the political system to thoroughly grasp, unify awareness, and clearly define responsibilities and methods of organizing the implementation of legislative tasks throughout the term.
The Deputy Prime Minister clearly stated that Conclusion No. 17 of the Politburo and Plan No. 64 of the National Assembly Standing Committee have clearly identified the direction for perfecting institutions and laws in the next 5 years.
The tasks of the 16th National Assembly have a very large legislative volume, very high requirements and very urgent time. Out of a total of 192 legislative tasks, the Government is assigned 171 tasks.
With that spirit, Deputy Prime Minister Le Tien Chau said that the Government will focus on directing 5 key tasks.
First, urgently promulgate and immediately organize the implementation of the Government's Plan in deploying the legislative orientation of the 16th National Assembly term. The plan must be very specific and detailed.
Second, innovate thinking in law-making in the spirit of Resolution No. 66 associated with the synchronous implementation of Conclusion No. 09 on completing the legal system structure.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the amendment and supplementation of the law must be placed in the overall legal system, especially the results of the general review of the system of legal normative documents being carried out, ensuring synchronization, unity, transparency, easy access and easy implementation.
The law must properly regulate issues under the authority of the National Assembly, and issues that fluctuate rapidly and are technical are assigned to the Government, ministries, branches, and localities to regulate according to their authority, in parallel with controlling power and accountability.
Third, the Government will tighten internal discipline in law-making work.
In which, strictly control the quality of policies from the beginning, summarize practical and substantive practices, fully assess impacts, get opinions from the right subjects affected, not be formalistic, not avoid difficult issues, and not let local interests or group interests dominate the law-making process.
Along with that, promote the role of the Ministry of Justice from the appraisal stage to strictly controlling the receipt and explanation of appraisal opinions, clearly affirming whether dossiers are sufficient or not sufficient for submission to the Government and the Prime Minister.
From the third quarter of 2026, the Government will pilot the evaluation and scoring of KPIs in law-making work to measure progress, measure quality, determine the responsibilities of each ministry and sector and consider this as an important basis for reviewing and evaluating the level of task completion of the head" - Deputy Prime Minister Le Tien Chau said.
Fourth, promote digital transformation in law-making and law enforcement organization.
Fifth, improve the effectiveness of coordination between the Government and the National Assembly in legislative work, especially proactively coordinating with the National Assembly's agencies in developing legislative programs, session programs, and early handling of major policy issues that still have different opinions.
