On September 23, at the Government Headquarters, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the Government's special meeting on law-making in September 2024 with many important contents.
The meeting reviewed and gave opinions on 4 contents: Draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance; Draft Law on Data; Proposal to develop a Law on Personal Data Protection; Proposal to develop a Law on Lawyers (amended).
In his opening speech, the Prime Minister stated that the spirit of the 10th Central Conference of the 13th tenure is to promote decentralization and delegation of power; to build a socialist rule-of-law state of the people, by the people, and for the people; to avoid the situation where lower levels "ask" higher levels for anything, but must base it on regulations; and that no matter how small, any issue must be submitted to the Central level for decision.
The Prime Minister requested that ministers, leaders of ministries, branches, and heads of agencies thoroughly grasp this spirit to remove difficulties and obstacles, promote stronger decentralization and delegation of power, along with resource allocation, while enhancing responsibility and implementation capacity of subordinates.
The Prime Minister said that in his opening speech at the 10th Central Conference, General Secretary and President To Lam clearly stated that the spirit is "locality decides, locality acts, locality takes responsibility"; the Central Government, the National Assembly, and the Government only issue mechanisms, guidelines, and design monitoring and inspection tools.
Ministers and heads of sectors should only deal with strategic issues, planning, program orientation, and important development policies for the country. They should not get caught up in specific issues that can easily create a "request-give" environment, avoiding negativity.
The central budget only invests in inter-regional, national and international projects and programs; provincial-level programs and projects are decided by provinces and cities; administrative reform must be promoted right in law-making, reflected in the provisions of laws, circulars and decrees.
Expressing dissatisfaction with a number of decrees that have assigned some ministries and sectors to complete early but have not yet been completed, the Prime Minister requested ministers and sector heads to uphold the spirit of serving the country and the people, daring to think, daring to do, and daring to take responsibility.
Assessing that internal administrative procedures are still cumbersome, the Prime Minister requested that the consultation of Government members, if there is no response within the deadline, must be considered as agreement. Along with that, it is necessary to thoroughly reform, minimize administrative procedures, and compliance costs for people and businesses.
In order to avoid the situation where the more laws are issued, the more difficult it is to implement, the Prime Minister requested that laws be developed to strengthen management but must create an environment and space for development, not tighten and constrict; when amending laws, we must be bold, and remove any obstacles; laws that overlap are very difficult to implement and do not encourage innovation.
At the same time, uphold the spirit of responsibility, focus on democracy, discipline, and administrative discipline; if anyone is afraid of responsibility, "stand aside"; when responding, ministries and branches must be specific, not general; the assignment must be "clear about the person, the work, the responsibility, the implementation time, the effectiveness, the product", and must not avoid or shirk responsibility; first of all, serve well the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly.
