Full-time deputies discuss bills to be debated at NA’s fifth session

An overview of the meeting (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) –National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue chaired a NA full-time deputies’meeting to discuss a number of issues to be debated at the NA’s upcoming fifth session.

The Chairman saidthat since the beginning of the tenure, the 15th NA has adopted 16 lawsand 21 resolutions with high consensus.

He said that law-buildingwill be a focal point of the upcoming fifth session, during which a largenumber of large-scale and important bills will be debated and approved.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue addresses the meeting (Photo: VNA)

He askedthe deputies to focus on seven bills, six of which will be discussed at thefifth session – the Cooperative Law (revised), Bidding Law (revised), Law onProtection of Consumer Rights (revised), Price Law (revised), Law on ElectronicTransactions (revised), and Law on Civil Defence (revised). The draftLand Law (revised) will be left for the sixth session.

During its 20th and 21st sessions, the NA Standing Committee gave opinions on thesix bills, he said, adding that the drafting and verification agencieshave so far agreed on the majority of key contents of the bills.

For the draft revisedLand Law, about 11.5 million ideas have been to date gathered from people fromall walks of life, he noted, asking the deputies to continue to discuss majorissues of the bill, including the viewpoints on the rights and responsibilitiesof the State and citizens on land, and the rights and obligations of landusers, among others./.

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