NA's Standing Committee concludes 31st session

ABO/NDO - The 31st session of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly (NA) closed on the afternoon of February 21, under which NA deputies debated controversial provisions of the law on public investment and the law on tax management.

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan speaks at the session. (Photo: quochoi.vn)

The standing committee discussed the scale and the name of the law on public investment, criteria for the classification of key national investment projects, and the management of official development assistance (ODA) and foreign preferential loans under the law on public investment.

A large number of deputies emphasised that it should be based on the Law on Management of Public Debts to manage ODA capital in order to avoid overlaps between management agencies.

 

The NA's Standing Committee also listened to a government report on public feedback on revisions to the draft revised education law. Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha said that the people expressed their deep interest in the draft revised law on education with more than one million people contributing their opinions to the draft revised law.

 

Nha noted that the draft revised law on education inherits the appropriate regulations and remedy shortcomings of the Education Law in 2005 (amended and supplemented in 2009).

 

Addressing the closing ceremony, NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan urged relevant committees of the NA, ministries and agencies to continue to study and perfect the important laws considered at this meeting.

 

The senior legislator also asked the NA Committee for Financial and Budgetary Affairs to complete the drafted resolution on the State capital for the National University construction project in Hoa Lac to quickly promulgate the resolution.

 

She noted that the next meetings of the NA's Standing Committee in March and April will consider many issues, thus requiring government and NA agencies to promptly perfect documents to submit to the NA's Standing Committee to ensure the set progress.