The National Assembly Delegation of Nghe An Province discussed the Law on Insurance Business and the Law on Intellectual Property.
(Baonghean.vn) - Implementing the program of the 7th session of the 14th National Assembly, on the afternoon of May 20, under the chairmanship of comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Nghe An province, the delegation of 3 delegations: Nghe An, Tra Vinh and Lao Cai worked in the group.
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| Mr. Le Quang Huy - Vice Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee on Science, Technology and Environment (Nghe An Delegate) spoke at the discussion group. Photo: Thanh Loan |
Delegates participated in discussions on the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Insurance Business and the Law on Intellectual Property.
According to Submission No. 146/TTr-CP on the draft law, the Government proposed to amend and supplement a number of articles of the Law on Insurance Business and the Law on Intellectual Property in the form of "one law amending many laws". Delegates were asked to discuss and supplement 7 articles in 5 chapters of the Law on Insurance Business to supplement regulations on insurance auxiliary services; at the same time, amend and supplement 11 articles in 8 chapters of the Law on Intellectual Property to implement the commitments in 8 articles of the CPTPP Agreement according to 4 major groups of issues, including: patents, geographical indications, trademarks and protection of intellectual property rights.
Participating in giving comments on the draft Law on Insurance Business, Mr. Le Quang Huy, a National Assembly delegate from Nghe An province, expressed concerns about the insurance annex. According to delegate Huy, there are currently many services within the insurance business sector, from insurance consulting, risk assessment, insurance calculation, loss assessment, etc. The problem here is that if insurance services are combined, their content contains many other services and to perform these "other services", the conditions are not the same. Therefore, delegate Le Quang Huy suggested that it is necessary to clarify whether the combination is consistent or not, to avoid the case where if it is incorporated into the law only for the purpose of amending the list without following the procedure, it will violate Article 7 stipulated in the Investment Law.
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| Ms. Nguyen Van Chi - Standing Member of the National Assembly's Finance and Budget Committee (Nghe An delegation) discussed the Law on Intellectual Property. Photo: Thanh Loan |
Commenting on the Intellectual Property Law, Ms. Nguyen Van Chi, National Assembly delegation of Nghe An province, said that if the Intellectual Property Law takes effect in November 2019, will the infrastructure of this field meet the requirements? Is the state management agency of intellectual property qualified to allow the submission of applications for registration and maintenance of trademark validity by electronic means?
In addition, regarding the regulation that the losing party must pay the winning party “reasonable costs” to hire a lawyer and compensate for damages caused by the act of abusing intellectual property protection procedures as prescribed in Clause 4 and Clause 5, Article 198 of the Law on Intellectual Property (amended and supplemented by Clause 9 of the draft Law), delegate Nguyen Van Chi suggested that the Drafting Committee should clearly stipulate how much the “reasonable fee” is...
