Adding 4 draft laws to the 2025 Legislative Program

On the morning of July 10, at the 47th Session, the National Assembly Standing Committee considered and decided to adjust the 2025 Legislative Program.

Accordingly, the Government proposed that the National Assembly Standing Committee consider and supplement 4 draft laws, submit them to the National Assembly for comments and approval at the 10th Session (October 2025).

Specifically, the projects are: Law on Thrift and Anti-Waste (replacement); Law on Cyber Security; Law on E-Commerce; Law on Judicial Expertise (replacement).

Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh presented the Proposal on adjusting the 2025 Legislative Program.

Regarding the order and procedures for drafting, the Government proposed drafting two drafts of the Law on Thrift and Waste Prevention (replacement) and the Law on E-commerce following the usual order and procedures; proposed drafting two drafts of the Law on Judicial Expertise (replacement) and the Law on Cyber Security following the shortened order and procedures.

Commenting on the Government's proposal, the Standing Committee of the Law and Justice Committee and the agencies agreed with the necessity of adding 4 draft laws to the 2025 Legislative Program, requesting that the drafting agencies in the process of developing the project should focus on quality, ensuring consistency and synchronization with related laws, especially the new laws passed by the National Assembly at the 9th Session.

Regarding each project, for the draft Law on Thrift and Waste Prevention (replacement), the agencies propose that during the process of drafting the Law, it is necessary to note that there are no regulations on specialized inspection activities, administrative inspection, and no specific regulations on the content of thrift and waste prevention inspection to be consistent with the authority of the National Assembly as well as the provisions of the Inspection Law recently passed by the National Assembly.

At the same time, the study should more clearly define the responsibilities of subjects who commit wasteful acts, the level of disciplinary, administrative and criminal sanctions, and the responsibility to repay and compensate for damages to the State corresponding to each wasteful act caused, ensuring deterrence.

Research and complete regulations on monitoring and reporting on thrift practice and anti-waste to ensure publicity, transparency, and a basis for inspection, assessment and early detection of violations in the fields of financial management, budget, public investment, land, mineral resources, etc.

Regarding the draft Law on Cyber Security, the Standing Committee of the Law and Justice Committee suggested that if this draft Law replaces both the Law on Cyber Security and the Law on Network Information Security, it is necessary to adjust the name to fully cover the scope of regulation; at the same time, merge the scope of regulation of the current Law on Cyber Security and the Law on Network Information Security, and eliminate duplicate content.

Regarding the draft Law on E-commerce, the agencies found that legal relations in the field of e-commerce are currently subject to the regulation of many legal documents in different fields. However, the Report has not clarified the relationship between the Law on E-commerce and related laws, and has not pointed out the shortcomings, overlaps or legal gaps that need to be overcome.

Therefore, it is necessary to carefully review and clarify the scope of regulation, applicable subjects and content of the draft Law, avoid duplication and contradiction, ensure consistency and unity of the legal system and require innovation in law-making thinking.

In addition, due to the cross-border nature of e-commerce, with the participation of many domestic and foreign entities through diverse forms of activities such as investment, import and export, service provision, transactions and support for e-commerce with foreign elements..., the process of building the Law needs to continue to be carefully reviewed to ensure compliance with relevant international treaties of which Vietnam is a member.

Chairman of the Law and Justice Committee Hoang Thanh Tung presented a report on the proposal to adjust the 2025 Legislative Program.

Regarding the draft Law on Judicial Expertise (replacement), the Standing Committee of the Law and Justice Committee suggested that during the process of drafting the Law, it is necessary to carefully review the provisions of the law to ensure compliance with the principles of decentralization and delegation of power; continue to review the provisions of the current Law to thoroughly overcome difficulties, contradictions, and overlaps caused by legal provisions, meeting practical requirements.

In particular, ensuring consistency and unity with the tasks and powers of agencies and persons conducting proceedings as prescribed in the laws on the organization of judicial agencies and criminal proceedings recently passed at the 9th Session.

In response to the requirements, the key task is to overcome difficulties and obstacles in resolving criminal cases of corruption and economic crimes caused by prolonged judicial appraisal activities and the situation of avoiding and shirking responsibility when conducting judicial appraisal.

At the same time, strengthen the control mechanism to prevent, promptly detect and strictly handle negative behaviors and violations of the law in judicial appraisal.

Regarding some other issues, the Standing Committee of the Law and Justice Committee noted the need to fully and seriously comply with the law-making process, only proposing to apply the shortened order and procedures in cases where it is really necessary and fully meets the conditions prescribed in Article 50 of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents.

Regarding the determination of "amended" or "replaced" laws, the examining agency proposed to continue applying the previous practice, for draft laws that comprehensively amend to replace current laws, they are called (amended) laws, for draft laws that amend and supplement a number of articles, the name of the law also correctly reflects the scope of amendments and supplements.

The National Assembly Standing Committee basically agreed with the Government's Submission and the Report of the Standing Committee of the Law and Justice Committee; approved the addition of 4 draft laws to the 2025 Legislative Program as proposed by the Government and agreed with the order and procedures for drafting draft laws as submitted by the Government.

Speaking at the meeting, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man emphasized that only the 10th Session is left to conclude the term of the 15th National Assembly. Therefore, all draft laws should be summarized and decided at the 10th Session. If the drafting agency has prepared carefully, well, and with quality, the draft laws will be submitted according to the shortened process and procedures.

Regarding the determination of “amended” or “replaced” laws, the Chairman of the National Assembly said that, legally, they are completely different and cannot be considered similar to each other. Amending some articles or amending the whole thing is also an amendment, therefore, the original text is kept intact, only supplementing and adjusting part of the content of that law. After the amendment, the original law is still in effect, only changing specific provisions. A replacement law means issuing a completely new law, ending the effect of the old law and the old law is no longer legally valid, the content is replaced by the new law.

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