Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: Removing bottlenecks, unleashing all development resources

At the meeting, the Government discussed and gave opinions on the following contents: Draft Law on Data; Proposal to develop a Law on Personal Data Protection; Draft Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance; Proposal to develop a Law on Lawyers (amended).

Government members said that the development and promulgation of laws aims to thoroughly grasp and concretize the Party's viewpoints, guidelines and policies on the above-mentioned fields; overcome shortcomings, inadequacies and limitations; serve state management, promote socio-economic development and ensure national defense, security, order and social safety in the coming time.

Regarding the Data Law Project (chaired by the Ministry of Public Security), delegates enthusiastically discussed contents related to the concepts of data, connection, sharing, authority; budget for implementing the Data Strategy; connection, sharing, and coordination of data, etc.

Regarding the Proposal to develop a Law on Personal Data Protection (chaired by the Ministry of Public Security), Government members discussed in detail the related policies: Building, developing, managing, processing data, applying science and technology in data processing, state management of data; rights and obligations of data subjects; protecting personal data during data processing; conditions and measures to protect personal data...

In the Draft Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance (chaired by the Ministry of Health), the Government considers contents related to health insurance participants, technical expertise lines, auditing, digital transformation applications, data sharing; registration for medical examination and treatment; referral to technical expertise lines; rights of health insurance participants; improving the efficiency of management of the Health Insurance Fund; criteria and principles for using the list of drugs used for medical examination and treatment for health insurance participants...

In the Proposal to develop the Law on Lawyers (amended) (chaired by the Ministry of Justice), the Government agreed to comprehensively amend the 2006 Law on Lawyers to specify the 2013 Constitution on citizens' rights to seek defense from lawyers; the Party's policies and guidelines on continuing to build and perfect the socialist rule-of-law state of Vietnam in the new period.

In particular, unifying the law-making with the following policies: Building a team of lawyers with political will, professional ethics and professional capacity; strongly developing the legal services market, and at the same time building professional law practice organizations to meet the requirements of judicial reform and international integration; enhancing the self-management responsibility of social-professional organizations of lawyers; the responsibility of organizations, strengthening state management of lawyers and law practice...

Directing on principles and requirements for law making, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh discussed and commented on each content of the draft laws and Proposals for law making; assigned Deputy Prime Ministers to direct the ministries to coordinate with the Ministry of Justice, the Government Office and relevant agencies to continue studying and absorbing opinions of Government members, meeting resolutions, and completing the draft law dossier according to the provisions of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents; promptly reporting to the Government and the Prime Minister on major issues in the process of coordinating to revise and complete the draft law.

Concluding the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that at the eighth session of the 15th National Assembly, the Government plans to submit 15 draft laws to the National Assembly for approval and 11 draft laws to the National Assembly for comments. He said that the task is very heavy, while there is very little time left from now until the eighth session.

Therefore, the Prime Minister requested ministers and heads of ministerial-level agencies to prioritize maximum time, effort, and intelligence, concentrate the highest resources, directly lead and direct the completion of draft laws to submit to the National Assembly in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents, ensuring quality and progress as required.

The Prime Minister requested ministries and branches to focus on perfecting laws, amending and supplementing regulations, in order to come up with breakthrough solutions to untie, remove bottlenecks, and unleash all resources for development.

During the law-making process, it is necessary to closely coordinate with the agencies of the National Assembly, create consensus in the process of examining, explaining, accepting and revising the draft law according to the opinions of the National Assembly Standing Committee and National Assembly deputies; promptly report to the Government and the Prime Minister on arising issues and contents beyond the authority.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh noted that the Party's guidelines and policies must be fully implemented in draft laws and ordinances. In law-making, it is necessary to start from practice, respect, closely follow and use practice as a measure; ensure feasibility, ensure national and ethnic interests; the legitimate rights and interests of individuals and organizations; promote decentralization and delegation of power thoroughly, at the same time mobilize and allocate resources effectively; design tools to strengthen supervision, inspection and control of power; cut down and simplify administrative procedures, minimize costs for people and businesses, improve the investment and business environment; eliminate the request-grant mechanism, reduce intermediary stages.

The Head of Government requested that the law must design tools to enhance effective management suitable to Vietnam's conditions, but must also create conditions for development and facilitate the mobilization and effective use of resources; encourage creativity of people, businesses and related entities; ensure legitimate and legal rights and interests and have tools to handle violations of people, businesses and related entities, on the perspective of not criminalizing civil and economic relations.

The Prime Minister requested to develop laws that inherit the regulations that are still suitable and have positive impacts in current laws; what is mature, clear, proven to be correct in practice, effectively implemented, and agreed by the majority should continue to be implemented and legalized; the contents that still have many different opinions and are still fluctuating should not be specifically regulated in the draft law but should be proposed to be assigned to the Government to regulate and provide specific instructions, learn from experience while doing, gradually expand, not be perfectionist, not hasty; be able to manage but must be open and clear about people, work, responsibilities, and results; maximize the opinions of experts, scientists, and related subjects; refer to international experiences suitable to Vietnam's conditions and circumstances; strengthen policy communication work, create social consensus in both the stages of building and perfecting laws and organizing law enforcement./.