On May 25, Minister of Justice Hoang Thanh Tung chaired a meeting to review draft laws, ordinances, and resolutions expected to be submitted to the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee in 2026.
Reporting at the Meeting, Director of the Department of Legal Document Development (Ministry of Justice) Nguyen Quoc Hoan said that based on relevant Resolutions and the results of reviewing and monitoring the 2026 Legislative Program, to date, 57 draft laws, ordinances, and resolutions are being studied and prepared by ministries and agencies to submit to the National Assembly for approval from now until the end of 2026.
Speaking to direct, Minister Hoang Thanh Tung emphasized that this is a particularly important working session to comprehensively review the 2026 Law and Ordinance Development Program as well as arising requirements to serve the upcoming session of the 16th National Assembly.
Regarding deployment work, the Minister said that it is currently focused on two key task groups.
The first is to count all preparations for the 2nd session of the 16th National Assembly in the mindset of being ready for the possibility of organizing another non-scheduled session.
Therefore, ministries and sectors must carefully review the progress of each draft law to clearly identify which projects have been fully prepared, and can accelerate the progress of submitting to the National Assembly earlier than planned.
The second is to review draft laws expected to be supplemented to the 2026 Law and Ordinance Development Program.
According to the Minister, there are currently 32 projects in the official program, along with 25 projects that ministries and sectors are proposing to supplement, totaling 57 projects. However, this number does not include laws, ordinances, and resolutions that will have to be amended after the review process of expiring documents at the beginning of 2027. If fully calculated, the number of draft laws, ordinances, and resolutions that need to be amended and supplemented may be up to about 80 projects.
Regarding the amendment plan and form of the document, the Minister requested ministries and sectors when reporting to clarify both the content of the amendment and the form of amendment. In which, in terms of content, it is necessary to specifically identify which clauses of each law need to be amended and in which direction.
In terms of form, ministries and sectors must clearly propose whether to choose to amend one separate law or apply the form of "one law amending many laws" to ensure progress, serve the requirements of decentralization, delegation of power and reduction of administrative procedures.
