On 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.
Concluding the Conference, Politburo Member, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said that the legislative volume of the National Assembly is constantly increasing.
In particular, the 15th National Assembly passed 151 laws (double compared to the 12th and 14th terms), and in 2025 alone, 89 laws and many important resolutions were passed.
This has made an important contribution to ensuring macroeconomic stability, curbing inflation, ensuring social security and completing development targets.
According to the National Assembly Chairwoman, to improve the quality of laws, the starting point must be from the Government and ministries and sectors. Dossiers and procedures must be complete, ensuring progress and quality before submitting to the Ethnic Council, Committees of the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee for appraisal and consideration.
The goal is to thoroughly overcome limitations; and at the same time continue to innovate thinking and methods of law-making; effectively apply digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI). The entire legislative process must be associated with strictly controlling power, improving accountability, preventing and combating corruption and negativity, absolutely not allowing group interests or local interests to occur" - the National Assembly Chairwoman emphasized.
The National Assembly Chairwoman said that from the Eighth Session, the 15th National Assembly, the National Assembly has implemented innovation in legislative thinking. Accordingly, the National Assembly only promulgates framework laws; Decrees issued by the Government and Circulars issued by Ministries; does not include regulations of a decree or circular nature in the law.
The application of AI and digital technology is mandatory. The "Digital Education - Digital National Assembly" curriculum set including 27 National Assembly topics has been highly appreciated by General Secretary and President To Lam and is currently being widely deployed.
Besides the achieved results, there are still shortcomings and limitations in the recent law-making work. In which, the preparation of some draft laws is behind schedule, leading to the situation of requesting postponement of the time to submit to the National Assembly for consideration such as: Land Law, Law on Medical Examination and Treatment...
Along with that, the quality of preparation is not thorough, the newly promulgated law has to be amended such as the Capital Law; Urban and Rural Planning Law...
Regarding key tasks in the coming time, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said that from now until the end of 2026, the volume of legislative tasks is very large.
Therefore, it is requested that agencies and organizations urgently complete the development of plans, assign responsibilities and immediately implement the review, research, and implementation of tasks according to Plan No. 64/KH-UBTVQH16 (must be completed before June 30, 2026).
According to the Orientation, the Government presides over the implementation of 171/192 legislative tasks of the entire term, it is necessary to urgently complete the review and study of amendments to documents to promptly remove barriers, strive to achieve the "2-digit" growth target; operate smoothly the apparatus according to the 3-level government model.
Therefore, it is requested to urgently build projects to propose the organization of an extraordinary session to reduce the burden on the Second and Third Sessions of the 16th National Assembly.
At the same time, it is requested that drafting agencies effectively implement the collection of opinions from affected subjects. Overcome the situation that when a document is not yet drafted, there are no comments, but when it is issued, it encounters reactions from affected subjects.
Along with that, agencies must proactively coordinate closely from the beginning with agencies of the National Assembly and relevant agencies to prepare project dossiers carefully in terms of both content and legislative techniques before submitting them to the National Assembly Standing Committee, creating high consensus right from the appraisal and comments process.
