Continuing the 9th session, on the morning of May 10, the National Assembly heard the National Assembly Standing Committee member, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Science, Technology and Environment, Le Quang Huy, presenting the report on explanation, acquisition and revision of the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Standards and Technical Regulations (TC & QCKT).
According to the report, after the review, the draft Law includes: 5 Chapters, 59 Articles (a reduction of 18 Articles, an addition of 13 Articles compared to the draft submitted by the Government).
Immediately afterwards, the National Assembly discussed in the hall a number of contents with different opinions of the draft Law.
Regarding the contents of the conformity announcement prescribed in the Draft Law (Article 48), according to Mr. Le Quang Huy, after receiving the opinions of the National Assembly deputies at the 8th session, the draft law has supplemented the principle of each product, goods, service, process or environment that is only adjusted by a unified technical regulation (QCKT) nationwide, except for the laws of the law.
At the same time, the draft Law supplements regulations on cases where it is not necessary to announce the regulations. Such a regulation will overcome the situation of having to simultaneously carry out two procedures for declaring the compliance according to the Law on TC&QCKT and corresponding management requirements and measures in specialized laws.
Declaring the regulations is explained as the organization or individual announcing the subject of activities in the field of technical regulations in accordance with corresponding technical regulations.
Regarding the above content, many delegates proposed to consider and completely abolish this regulation.
Delegate Nguyen Duy Thanh - National Assembly Delegation of Ca Mau province - said that no country regulates manufacturers and businesses to announce product compliance before launching it on the market like Vietnam.
The announcement of the regulations in the draft Law is meaningless in management, causing costs, administrative procedures, wasting time for businesses, and reducing the competitiveness of goods.
Besides, according to delegates, the announcement of conformity is contrary to the policy of the Party and the State on the transfer from money to post -inspection. When the authorities only focus on controlling the procedures to announce the conformity and neglect the post -inspection, consumers have to suffer the consequences, easily deceived by advertising tricks.
"Declaring the consistency can be understood as the manufacturer spending money to put their product for testing, but it has no meaning if testing it once and then using it for several years. The recent series of fake milk cases are a lesson, also a testament to negligence in post-inspections", said delegate Nguyen Duy Thanh.
Delegate Tran Thi Van - National Assembly Delegation of Bac Ninh province - also agreed with the opinion of abolishing the regulation on promulgating the code and said that when there have been too many opinions reflecting on the inadequacies, inconveniences, and waste of this regulation, it is necessary to study and accept it.
The delegate said that our country currently has about 20 associations representing hundreds of member enterprises. The Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) has organized many scientific seminars to analyze and evaluate the impact of this regulation on management efficiency. "As a result, they have a common proposal to abolish the regulation on promulgating the regulations," said delegate Van.
Delegate Van also said that the complete repeal of the above regulation is still appropriate in the context that the Party and State are stepping up the improvement of policy institutions, creating an open, transparent, stable, safe, easy-to-implement business environment, low costs, high competitiveness, especially the spirit of Resolution 68 of the Politburo on private economic development.
"This regulation is just a formal procedure, overlapping and unnecessary. The fact that businesses re-issue the entire process of inspection, sample collection, and evaluation to announce the regulations is only to confirm what has been previously confirmed, which is wasteful.
Enterprises can also completely cope by doing well to take them for testing, but mass production is not good. This creates loopholes for some businesses to defraud, launch to the market goods below the announced standards and counterfeit goods, similar to the recent case of 600 fake milk brands", said delegate Tran Thi Van.
Many other National Assembly deputies have also commented on the above issue for the drafting agency to continue researching and reviewing and revising to suit the reality.
