Today the National Assembly discussed and voted to pass many important laws.

November 29, in the morning sessionThe National Assembly held a plenary session in the hall and voted to pass the following contents: Law on Geology and Minerals; Law on Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting, and Rescue.

The National Assembly then discussed the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Supervisory Activities of the National Assembly and People's Councils.

In the afternoon, the National Assembly held a plenary session in the hall, voting to pass the following contents: Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Securities Law, the Accounting Law, the Independent Audit Law, the State Budget Law, the Law on Management and Use of Public Assets, the Tax Administration Law and the National Reserve Law; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Planning Law, the Investment Law, the Law on Investment under the public-private partnership model and the Bidding Law; Law on Public Investment (amended).

Next, the National Assembly discussed the draft Law on Management and Investment of State Capital in Enterprises.

According to the representative of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the content of the amendment to the Law on Public Investment has fully and comprehensively specified 05 major policy groups, deeply demonstrating the spirit of breakthrough, reform, decentralization, and delegation of power of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, the National Assembly, and the Government according to the motto "locality decides, locality does, locality is responsible," the Central Committee, the National Assembly, and the Government play a role in creating, strengthening institutional improvement and inspection and supervision; ensuring clear people, clear work, clear responsibilities, clear results; cutting down and simplifying administrative procedures, not allowing responsibility to be passed on, avoiding creating a "request-grant" mechanism...

5 major policy groups in the proposal dossier for the draft Law on Public Investment (amended), including: Policy group on institutionalizing pilot and specific mechanisms and policies that have been allowed to be applied by the National Assembly; policy group on continuing to promote decentralization and delegation of power; policy group on improving the quality of investment preparation, resource exploitation, and capacity to implement public investment projects of localities and state-owned enterprises; policy group on promoting the implementation and disbursement of ODA capital plans and preferential loans from foreign donors (foreign capital); policy group on simplifying procedures; supplementing and clarifying concepts, terms, regulations, ensuring consistency and uniformity of the legal system.../.