Through the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the National Assembly
On the afternoon of February 17, at the 9th extraordinary session, the National Assembly voted to pass the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the National Assembly.
After being accepted and revised, the Draft Law has amended and supplemented 21 articles (an increase of 4 articles compared to the draft Law submitted to the National Assembly for comments) and abolished 17 articles of the current Law on Organization of the National Assembly; ensuring timely institutionalization of the Party's policy on arranging and streamlining the apparatus and personnel work, ensuring consistency and unity with the amendment and supplementation of the Law on Organization of the Government, the Law on Organization of Local Government and the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents.
The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the National Assembly regulating the organization and operation of the National Assembly has supplemented and clarified the authority of the National Assembly in performing the task of "making laws and amending laws" stipulated in the Constitution; at the same time, it is consistent with the current regulations in the draft Law on Organization of the Government (amended) and the draft Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents (amended) which were also considered and approved by the National Assembly at this session.
The Law has also been amended and supplemented to specify the requirements for innovation in thinking in law-making, clearly defining the scope of contents that need to be regulated by law and resolution of the National Assembly and providing principles and orientations on the level of detail that needs to be regulated in the law, as a basis for the implementation of the National Assembly's authority to make and amend laws.
The Law also absorbs and revises the regulations on the organizational structure of the National Assembly's Ethnic Council and Committees in the direction that the National Assembly's Ethnic Council and Committees include the Chairman of the National Assembly's Ethnic Council/Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee, Vice Chairmen/Vice Chairmen, and Members who are National Assembly deputies working full-time at the National Assembly's Ethnic Council and Committees; at the same time, absorbs and revises the regulations on the functions, tasks, and powers of the National Assembly's Ethnic Council and Committees.
Regarding the National Assembly session, based on the opinions of the National Assembly Deputies, the Law has been amended and supplemented in the direction of specifying the provisions on "extraordinary National Assembly sessions" of the Constitution. Accordingly, the National Assembly meets regularly twice a year.
An extraordinary session of the National Assembly is held at the request of the President, the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Prime Minister or at least one-third of the total number of National Assembly deputies to promptly consider and decide on urgent issues under the authority of the National Assembly to meet the requirements of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense, security, foreign affairs, etc.
With 461/461 National Assembly deputies voting in favor, accounting for 100% of deputies participating in the vote and accounting for 96.44% of the total number of National Assembly deputies, the National Assembly officially passed the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the National Assembly in the working session on the afternoon of February 17 and taking effect from the date of its approval by the National Assembly.
During the working session on the afternoon of February 17, the National Assembly listened to the submission, appraisal report and discussed in the hall the plan to invest in additional charter capital for the period 2024 - 2026 of the parent company - Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC).
Next, the National Assembly met separately to listen to submissions and reports on the examination of the organizational structure and number of Government members for the 15th National Assembly term and discussed this content in groups.
