Draft Law on public investment and public procurement has not been submitted yet.

Continuing the 12th session, on the afternoon of October 9, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave its opinion on the Government's Proposal on the proposal to adjust the Law and Ordinance Building Program for 2012 and the 13th National Assembly.

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The National Assembly Standing Committee has agreed to withdraw the draft Law on Public Investment and Public Procurement from the agenda of the 4th session of the National Assembly to give the Government more time to prepare and submit it to the National Assembly Standing Committee for comments and for the Economic Committee to review according to regulations.

The draft Law on Public Investment and Public Procurement was included in the Law and Ordinance Development Program for 2012 and 2013; it is expected to be submitted to the National Assembly for comments at the 4th session (October 2012) and approved at the 5th session (May 2013).

According to the Government's Submission, the process of drafting this Law project encountered many difficulties due to the large differences between the public investment sector and the public procurement sector. The Government believes that combining the Public Investment Law project and the Public Procurement Law project together can only be mechanical, and it is difficult to integrate the contents to form a law with a unified scope of regulation and structure. Drafting the guiding decree later will also encounter difficulties because the scope of detailed implementation regulations is very broad.

Therefore, the Government proposes that the National Assembly Standing Committee and the National Assembly allow: Separating the content of public investment to develop the Law on Public Investment; separating the content of public procurement to develop the Law on Bidding (amended). Separating and renaming the Law on Public Procurement to the Law on Bidding (amended) is to conform to the fact that the provisions on public procurement in this draft Law are essentially contents designed on the basis of amending the current Law on Bidding (amended).

The renaming of the law also aims to correct the misconception that the Law on Public Procurement was developed to regulate procurement activities using regular expenditure funds. In that spirit, this Law basically inherits and amends the corresponding provisions of the 2005 Law on Bidding, while supplementing and specifying a number of activities.

In the Report, the Government also requested the National Assembly Standing Committee to allow the addition of the draft Ordinance amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ordinance on the management and use of weapons, explosives and supporting tools to the 2012 Official Program for consideration and approval according to the shortened procedures. In addition, the draft Ordinance on Beliefs and Religions (amended) should be added to the 13th Session Official Program for consideration and approval in 2014....and a number of other contents.

On the same afternoon, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave its opinions on the preparation for submitting to the National Assembly a draft Resolution amending and supplementing the 1992 Constitution and a draft Resolution of the National Assembly on collecting public opinions on the draft 1992 Constitution (amended).

The 12th session of the National Assembly Standing Committee will continue its program on October 16 and is expected to end on October 18./.

(According to VNA)-LT