On November 26, the National Assembly discussed the draft Law on National Reserves (amended).
Speaking, delegate Ha Sy Dong (Quang Tri delegation) proposed adding a new thing about special national reserve vehicles for rescue and relief.
"In the recent natural disasters, we have seen a serious shortage of specialized means such as: ships, rescue boats, water swimmers, specialized high-chassis vehicles that overcome floods, canoes, medical transport vehicles, fire trucks," said the delegate.
According to the delegate of Quang Tri, there were times when the authorities could not reach the isolated area due to deep water and cut off terrain. While volunteer groups spontaneously took the lead, local forces took the lead by rudimentary means, posing potential risks and had very tragic accidents.
"We cannot let the people go ahead and the State run behind. Therefore, it is necessary to add a separate article to the law regulating the reserve of specialized vehicles, rescue and relief, with a specific list of standards, techniques, maintenance mechanisms, rotation, and rapid mobilization.
At the same time, it is allowed to empower the province to mobilize in emergency situations and report back later, delegate Ha Sy Dong emphasized.
Delegate Pham Van Hoa (Dong Thap Delegation) proposed to increase socialization in the national reserve sector because many sectors and fields have successfully socialized such as healthcare, construction and transportation.
Many State warehouses are currently degraded, while the budget is unlikely to be able to repair them in time. If the management and preservation are transferred to private enterprises, it will be better.
Explaining the issues of concern to delegates, Minister of Finance Nguyen Van Thang affirmed that through the natural disasters and floods occurring in many provinces, especially the Central region, the work of stockpiling goods, the work of allocating reserves and the work of decentralizing authority in granting and distributing are very well implemented.
"Recently, we have had widespread flooding, but the distribution work, especially essential equipment and food, is delivered very quickly when the locality has a need" - the Minister of Finance emphasized.
According to the minister, all special vehicles and specialized vehicles are directly directed by the Director of the Reserve Department to be issued to warehouses as soon as the locality has a need.
Regarding the issue of socialization in national reserves, the minister said that this draft has a very important step forward in promoting the socialization of national reserve activities, contributing to diversifying resources and improving flexibility in national reserves and reducing the burden on the state budget.
The draft has proposed to buy and import strategic reserve goods in addition to being invested from the state budget, but to be implemented in two ways:
One is the combination of public-private partners - using state budget sources and non-state budget sources to implement the mechanism of voluntary agreements and contracts prescribed by the Government.
And according to the provisions of other relevant laws, strategic reserves are made for business units from the legal source of the unit, and businesses are supported by the state with expenses for management, preservation, taxes, interest rates and other support packages according to the provisions of law.
