NA Standing Committee’s 10th session wraps up

The 10th session of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee concluded in Hanoi on April 26, mainly focusing on preparations for the third meeting of the 15th legislature.
NA Standing Committee’s 10th session wraps up ảnh 1NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue speaks at the working session. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The 10th session ofthe National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee concluded in Hanoi on April 26,mainly focusing on preparations for the third meeting of the 15th legislature.

In his closing remarks, NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Huesummed up that the session had looked into five draft laws which had been submitted to the NAfor the first time, a draft resolution on some pilot special mechanisms andpolicies for the development of the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, theproposed law and ordinance building programme for 2023 and adjustments to the2022 programme.

The five draft amended laws under debate were the Oil and Gas Law, the Law on Domestic Prevention and Control, the Law on Radio Frequencies, the Law on Inspection, and the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment.

The committee agreed to include the NA’s draft resolution on Khanh Hoa province into the 2022 law and ordinance building programme, and submit it to the third NA meeting for approval.

The Government’s reportreviewing the implementation of Resolution No. 42/2017/QH14 dated June 21, 2014of the 14th NA regarding the pilot handling of bad debts by creditinstitutions was also tabled for discussion. The committee reached consensuson the extension of the implementation until the end of December 2023.

It also asked the Government to soon build andsubmit a law amending and supplementing the Law on Credit Institutions,including regulations on handling bad debts, to the NA for consideration andissuance within this year.

The legislators examined the NA’s proposed supervision programme in 2023, and outcomes of the thematic supervision on theimplementation of policies and laws on the planning work since the Planning Lawcame into force.

For the Government’s reports on the State budgetbalance in 2020, and thrift practice and wastefulness prevention, the committeeasked the Government to complete the reports which, it said, should point outachievements as well as limitations.

Meanwhile, delegations of NA deputies were urged tostep up the collection of opinions of voters and people in localitiesand make monthly reports.

People’s Committees of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, andBinh Dinh, Dak Nong, Dong Nai, Thai Binh and Ninh Binh provinces should quicklysettle a number of lingering complex denunciations, it said./.

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