Program and content of the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly

The Office of the National Assembly has just issued a press release on the program and content of the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly.

The 5th extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly opened on January 15 and is expected to close on the morning of January 18 in the form of a concentrated meeting at the National Assembly House, Hanoi . The National Assembly will take a one-day break (January 17, 2024) for the National Assembly agencies, the Government and relevant agencies to absorb, revise and complete the draft laws and draft resolutions.

Agenda of the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly — ***Previously, at the 29th Session, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on preparations for the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly.*** Photo: VNA

At the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly, the National Assembly will consider and approve 4 contents including: Draft Law on Land (amended). After being accepted and revised, the draft Law on Land (amended) submitted to the National Assembly at the 5th Extraordinary Session consists of 16 chapters, 260 articles, omitting 5 articles, amending and supplementing 250 articles (both in content and technique) compared to the draft Law submitted to the National Assembly at the 6th Session.

Draft Law on Credit Institutions (amended). Some major issues of the draft Law on Credit Institutions (amended) reported to the National Assembly at the Session include: Risk provisioning; Early intervention in credit institutions and foreign bank branches; Special control of credit institutions; Handling cases of mass withdrawals, special loans and lending from credit institutions; Handling of bad debts and secured assets; State management agencies; Implementation provisions.

Draft Resolution on a number of specific mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties and obstacles, speed up the implementation of National Target Programs, including articles and regulations on a number of specific mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties and obstacles, speed up the implementation of National Target Programs, including: allocating and assigning annual central budget regular expenditure estimates; adjusting state budget estimates and annual capital investment plans of national target programs; promulgating regulations on procedures, criteria, and sample dossiers for selecting production development projects; using state budget in cases where production development project owners are assigned to self-purchase goods to serve production development activities; managing and using assets formed from production development support projects; entrusting self-balancing capital of local budgets through the social policy bank system; pilot mechanism for decentralization to district level in managing and organizing the implementation of national target programs; Assign medium-term public investment plans and annual capital investment for small-scale construction investment projects with uncomplicated techniques. The State only supports a portion of the investment costs, the rest is contributed by the people, with the participation and supervision of the people.

On supplementing the Medium-term Public Investment Plan of the central budget for the period 2021-2025 from the general reserve source corresponding to the increased central budget revenue in 2022 for public investment tasks and projects and supplementing the Medium-term Public Investment Plan for Vietnam Electricity Group from the reserve source of the Medium-term Public Investment Plan. The Draft Resolution consists of 03 articles, regulating the use of the general reserve of the Medium-term Public Investment Plan for the period 2021-2025 and the allocation of the reserve source of the Medium-term Public Investment Plan for the period 2021-2025.

The opening and closing sessions of the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly were broadcast live on Voice of Vietnam , Vietnam Television, and Vietnam National Assembly Television. In addition, the National Assembly sessions discussing in the hall some new contents or different opinions of the draft Law on Land (amended) and the draft Law on Credit Institutions (amended) were broadcast live on Vietnam National Assembly Television.

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