More bills to be approved in next National Assembly sessions

The National Assembly passed a resolution on a law and ordinance building programme for 2018 and adjustments to the programme for 2017 on June 8 during its third plenary session.
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The National Assembly’s session on June 8 (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) –The National Assembly passed a resolution on a law and ordinance buildingprogramme for 2018 and adjustments to the programme for 2017 on June 8 duringits third plenary session. 

Under the adjusted 2017 law and ordinancebuilding programme, legislators will give opinions to four bills, including thedraft law amending and supplementing several articles of the Law onEnvironmental Protection Tax; the amended Anti-corruption Law and the revisedLaw on Special Administrative and Economic Units; and the renaming of the draftLaw on Judicial Records (amended) as the law amending and supplementing severalarticles of the Law on Judicial Records, during the fourth sitting. 

The legislative body is scheduled to approve 11draft laws and debate nine others during the fifth session slated for 2018. 

Ten bills are expected to sail through whilethree others will be tabled at the next sitting of the legislature. 

The third plenary session is scheduled toconclude on June 21, with three working days, starting from June 13, to bedevoted to the questioning of cabinet members.-VNA
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