A meeting of the National Assembly’s 119 full-time deputies was held in Hanoi on August 3-13 to debate six bills to be put before the National Assembly for discussion and adoption at its upcoming year-end session.
The bills cover a wide range of topics including electricity, forest protection and development, free competition, publishing rights, national security, and the issuance of legal documents by People’s Committees and People’s Councils.
Deputies agreed that forest protection and development should involve the combined efforts of salaried rangers, armed forces, mass organizations, local residents and the general public.
Another issue that attracted the concern of most deputies was forest land allocation.
“Forest land should not be allocated to political and social organizations, as they have no professional staff, knowledge or experiences in this field,” Vi Van Duoc from Lang Son province said, adding that the border guard units should be allotted forest land because they have the necessary forces to plant and protect forests.
Meanwhile, Nguyen Van Nhuong from Quang Binh province suggested that forest land allocated to farmers would be retrieved after three years if they fail to plant trees as planned.
Regarding the draft of Vietnam’s first Competition Law, most deputies agreed that the State management over competition activities should not be handed over to the Ministry of Trade as many enterprises are directly affiliated to the ministry itself.
However, according to head of the NA Economic and Budget Commission Nguyen Duc Kien, this conflict of interests will not last for long as in the near future, the capital of all State enterprises will be managed by the Capital Investment and Trading Corporation.
“This will happen after the Enterprise Law and the Law on Foreign Investment in Vietnam have been recompiled into one common law.”
“And before long, State enterprises will be equitized and there will be no companies affiliated to the Ministry of Trade or any other central agency,” Mr. Kien said.
He said State enterprises would be equitized and there would be no companies affiliated to the Ministry of Trade or any other central agency.
It is estimated that the country lacks 100 necessary documents overseeing the implementation of new laws and ordinances.-