On May 15, the National Assembly listened to a presentation and a report on the review of the draft Resolution of the National Assembly on a number of special mechanisms and policies, creating a breakthrough in the development and organization of law enforcement.
Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh said that the Government proposed 3 special groups of policies on finance, human resources, application of digital technology, digital transformation of law-making and enforcement.
Regarding financial mechanisms, the Government proposes a budget to ensure spending on law-making work is not lower than 0.5% of total annual state budget expenditure and gradually increase according to development requirements. It is expected to spend about 12,500 billion VND per year.
In addition to spending on developing legal documents, it is also spent on strategic and policy research, advising on the development of policies and orientations on law-making at agencies of the Party, State, and the Vietnam Fatherland Front.
Along with that is spending on developing and maintaining digital technology application activities, digital transformation to serve innovation, modernization, investment in facilities and equipment to serve the work of building and organizing law enforcement.
In addition, the Government also proposes that state budget funding for law-making work be spent on a contract basis for each task or activity. The head of the agency has the right to proactively and flexibly change the expenditure content, and is responsible for public and transparent allocation.
The Government proposes to establish a Policy and Law Development Support Fund as a non-budgetary state financial fund under the Ministry of Justice, with the purpose of supporting and financing projects, tasks and activities that are not funded by the state budget or need to supplement funding to create breakthrough changes in law-making.
Minister Nguyen Hai Ninh also outlined a group of policies on human resources, the content of which was discussed a lot at the parliament through the sessions.
The Government proposes a regime to support 100% of salary according to the current salary coefficient (excluding allowances) for people directly and regularly working as consultants in strategic research, policy, and law-making at a number of central and local agencies.
The beneficiaries include full-time National Assembly deputies, leaders, civil servants, and officers of the armed forces with job positions in law and legal affairs, inspection of legal documents, international dispute resolution, and researchers from agencies and units as prescribed.
The support policy does not significantly increase budget expenditures, estimated at more than 216 billion VND/year for cadres at both the central and local levels.
The Government also proposes to exempt personal income tax and other financial obligations from income from law-making activities.
The draft Resolution clearly affirms that the monthly support regime "does not apply to cadres and civil servants holding leadership positions from deputy minister and equivalent or higher".
The Resolution also allows the application of special mechanisms for recruiting, promoting, seconding, cooperating or hiring experts to serve the work of law making and enforcement.
