NA Standing Committee’s 23rd session opens. Photo: Quochoi

NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said that the session, which will take place until May 12, focuses on 13 important contents to be debated at the NA fifth plenary session slated for May 22.

Members of the committee will give opinions on three bills and two draft resolutions, while considering the proposal to build a draft Gender Affirmation Law.

For the draft Land Law (revised), which was debated at the NA’s fourth plenary session and made public for idea collection, Hue asked participants to concentrate on a number of contents, including the land finance and land pricing methods. They are scheduled to spend half of a day on the bill, which is related to about 100 other draft laws.

Regarding the draft Law on Credit Institutions (revised), the NA leader said that the bill should be discussed during this session and approved in the next so that it can take effect from January 1 next year. Members of the committee should also consider the necessity of the amendments and supplementation of contents of the bills, he said.

The top legislator asked participants to give ideas on the draft law on the amendments and supplementations to a number of articles of the Law on Entry and Exit of Vietnamese Citizens and Foreigners' Entry in, Exit from, Transit through and Residence in Vietnam, along with a draft resolution on the adjustments and supplementations to Resolution 85/2014/QH13 issued on November 28, 2014 on voting of confidence for holders of positions elected and approved by the NA and People’s Councils, and a draft resolution on the pilot of a number of special mechanisms and policies for Ho Chi Minh City.

For the proposal to build a draft Law on Gender Affirmation, NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue requested participants to consider the design of major policies in the field and evaluate their impacts and make suitable decision.

Regarding the supervision work, the NA Standing Committee will opine on six reports, including those on the supplemented evaluation of the outcomes of the implementation of the socio-economic development tasks and State budget for 2022 and the plan for the first months of 2023.

They will also discuss a number of important issues, including the continuation of the allocation of the middle-term of public investment capital and capital of the socio-economic recovery programme.

During this session, the NA Standing Committee will continue the preparations for the NA’s fifth plenary session during which 20 bills and draft resolutions will be discussed.

The committee will build three draft resolutions to submit to the NA fifth session, including that on the organisation of district and communal-level administrative units in the 2023-2030 period.

This year, the Government proposed to continue to apply a 2 per cent VAT cut on goods and services subject to a 10 per cent VAT, and a 20 per cent cut in the percentage of goods for VAT calculation for business establishments (including business households and individuals) when issuing invoices for all goods and services subject to the VAT, which is suitable to the current economic circumstance, he said.

The policy, which is expected to benefit both people and businesses, will help promote production and create more jobs, thus contributing to stabilising the micro-economy and speeding up economic recovery in 2023, the minister underlined.

Delivering a verification report on the draft resolution, Vice Chairwoman of the NA Finance-Budget Committee Nguyễn Vân Chi said that the majority members of the committee agreed on the necessity of the resolution, which is hoped to support businesses and people after COVID-19 pandemic.

She asked the Government to complete a report on impacts of the policy.

NA Chairman Huệ suggested the resolution has the same scale as Resolution No 43/2022/QH15 on fiscal and monetary policies to support socio-economic recovery and development.

Concluding the discussion, NA Vice Chairman Nguyễn Đức Hải said that the NA Standing Committee agreed to include the draft resolution in the law and ordinance building programme for 2023, assigning NA agencies to finalise procedures for the work.