NA Standing Committee begins 8th meeting
Hanoi
(VNA) – The 8th meeting of the National Assembly (NA)’s Standing Committee
opened on March 14 with an agenda full of important contents for the third
session of the 14th NA.
Opening the meeting,
NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan stressed that the NA Standing Committee will give
opinions on five draft laws: the Bill on Tourism (revised), the Railway Bill
(revised), the Bill on Technology Transfer (revised), the Bill on Planning, and
the Bill on Foreign Trade Management.
All those bills
were debated at the second session of the 14th NA.
The Standing
Committee will also consider for the first time four draft laws on fishery
(revised), forest development and protection (revised), public debt management
(revised), and denunciation (revised).
These bills will
be submitted to the NA’s third session for first-time review.
Other items on
the NA Standing Committee meeting’s agenda are several draft resolutions, among
others.
Chairwoman Nguyen
Thi Kim Ngan said the original agenda of the NA Standing Committee’s eighth
meeting included several question-and-answer sessions for NA deputies but they
will be moved to the committee’s April meeting.
Following the
opening ceremony, the bill on denunciations (revised) was tabled for
discussions.
The NA
Chairwoman shared the majority viewpoint that the law on denunciations needs to
be revised to create more favourable conditions for citizens to exercise their
rights in this field while clarifying responsibilities of competent agencies
and organisations in dealing with denunciations, protecting whistle-blowers and
ensuring fair handling of such cases.
The bill on
denunciation (revised) contains major adjustments, with only 14 articles the
original law to be kept unchanged while 36 articles are revised and 14 new
articles are added.-VNA