In the afternoon of July 14, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the draft Law on Dissemination and Education of Laws (amended).
Presenting a summary report on the draft revised Law on Dissemination and Legal Education (PBGDPL), Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Justice Hoang Thanh Tung said that the development of this Law aims to overcome the limitations, difficulties, and obstacles of the current Law.
At the same time, institutionalize the Party's policy on innovating and improving the quality and effectiveness of PBGDPL work; ensure the right to access legal information, the right to participate in contributing opinions, reflections, and recommendations on policies and laws; strengthen the application of information technology and digital transformation.
The draft Law on PBGDPL (amended) clearly defines the responsibilities of agencies, organizations, and individuals in PBGDPL, in which the responsibility of the agency in charge of drafting legal normative documents, the National Assembly's agency, press agencies, and employers is supplemented.
At the same time, the draft Law inherits and perfects regulations on the responsibilities of Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, People's Courts, People's Procuracies, State Audit Offices, local authorities, Fatherland Front, organizations, unions... to clearly define responsibilities and mobilize the political system to participate in PBGDPL.
In addition, the draft Law completes regulations on legal education in educational institutions and the national education system.
The new point of the draft Law is to clearly stipulate that higher education institutions and vocational education institutions are responsible for bringing content and equipping legal knowledge related to training occupations to organize teaching.
At the same time, the draft Law supplements the responsibilities of state management agencies on education and training, and state management agencies on PBGDPL.
The draft Law supplements regulations on PBGDPL through the application of digital technology, social networks, artificial intelligence; PBGDPL policies for specific subjects; regulations on the purpose, content, form, responsibility, and principles of policy communication.
Member of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Law and Justice Committee Phan Chi Hieu said that the Standing Committee of the Law and Justice Committee basically agreed with the scope of regulation of the Law.
Regarding the content of regulations on the responsibility of organizing the implementation of PBGDPL work of heads of central ministries and branches and Chairmen of commune-level People's Committees, it is proposed to transfer it to regulations in other articles of law to be appropriate.
At the same time, it is necessary to review to clearly stipulate the scope of responsibility, avoiding understanding that the commune level is responsible for organizing dissemination of the entire legal system; clearly define responsibilities between provincial-level local authorities and commune-level authorities, between People's Councils and People's Committees of the same level.
Regarding the application of artificial intelligence in PBGDPL, it is proposed to supplement regulations on the responsibility to inspect and control content created by artificial intelligence before providing it to people and businesses and handle it promptly when inaccurate information is detected.
Regarding special subjects, the Standing Committee of the Law and Justice Committee proposed to study adding people who are fined for non-custodial reform, the elderly, teenagers, and children to the group of special subjects; migrant workers and residents in areas where access to the law is limited or assigning the Government to specifically regulate.
