The National Assembly delegation of Nghe An province collects comments on the draft Law on Organization of Local Government (amended)

The Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) consists of 7 chapters and 54 articles. This is a draft amendment to meet the implementation of the policy of a 2-level government model, improving quality, efficiency, effectiveness and efficiency in operations.

Participating in giving comments, representatives of provincial and district-level agencies and units basically agreed with the draft Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) on the basis of inheriting and developing the principles of organizing the administrative apparatus in the direction of decentralization, delegation of power, promoting autonomy and responsibility of local governments. The draft law also complies with the regulations on the form of promulgation of the Law, with a reasonable and scientific structure.

Delegates also contributed comments on many contents, including regulations on the principles of organization and operation of local governments that need to be concise and clear, such as complying with the Constitution and laws; ensuring professionalism, modernity, and efficiency; focusing on democracy, promoting the people's mastery.

At the same time, the draft law needs to stipulate and clearly distinguish between decentralization, delegation, and authorization between levels, enhance the initiative of local authorities; clarify the authority of the Central Government and local authorities at 2 levels, avoid overlapping, leaving tasks and powers vacant or shirking responsibilities, waiting for opinions, "asking - giving".

Delegates also analyzed and gave in-depth comments on the authority and responsibility of the People's Council and People's Committee at the provincial and communal levels; the authority and responsibility of the Chairman of the People's Committee at the provincial and municipal levels; clarified concepts to ensure transparency; it is necessary to supplement a separate law on "commune-level special zones" with specific criteria or change the name to avoid overlapping concepts.

Some opinions suggested that the draft Law should “rigidly” stipulate that the head of the People’s Council of the commune is a full-time person, in order to increase the effectiveness of the People’s Council at the commune level. Some delegates also had different opinions regarding the regulations on the authority and responsibility of the People’s Council at the commune level, whether or not it is allowed to approve local land use planning and plans, etc.

Regarding the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on promulgation of legal documents; in addition to basically agreeing with the draft content, some delegates also suggested that it is necessary to clearly stipulate the criteria and conditions for issuing shortened documents in cases of natural disasters, fires, and urgent security and defense issues; at the same time, consider a number of regulations to ensure consistency with related laws and regulations; edit the wording to be concise and clear, as a basis for easy implementation in practice.

Based on the opinions of the participating delegates, Comrade Tran Nhat Minh - Member of the Law and Justice Committee of the National Assembly, full-time National Assembly Delegate, received and affirmed that the comments will be fully compiled and sent to each National Assembly delegate of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation for study and transmission to the National Assembly session.

Comrade Tran Nhat Minh also hopes that agencies and delegates will continue to research and have more comments sent to the Office of the National Assembly Delegation and the Provincial People's Council for synthesis.