Proposal to add more content related to identification and install driver monitoring devices

The bill amending and supplementing a number of articles of 10 laws related to security and order has proposed adding many contents related to identification and installing driver monitoring devices.

Deputy Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Long presents the report - Photo: GIA HAN

On the afternoon of September 23, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of 10 laws related to security and order.

The 10 laws include the Law on Security Guards; the Law on Entry, Exit, Transit, and Residence of Foreigners in Vietnam; the Law on Exit and Entry of Vietnamese Citizens; the Law on Residence; the Law on Identification; the Law on Forces Participating in Protecting Security and Order at the Grassroots Level; the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety; the Law on Roads; the Law on Management and Use of Weapons, Explosives, and Support Tools; and the Law on Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting, and Rescue.

Proposal for people to be allowed to issue and exchange ID cards online

In particular, with the Law on Identification, the drafting agency proposed to add more cases of identity card revocation.

Supplementing the regulation that the person granted an electronic identity card must present the electronic identity card at the request of a competent agency, organization or individual, such agency, organization or individual shall not request the person granted an electronic identity card to present documents or provide information that has been integrated into the electronic identity card.

Regarding this content, the drafting agency believes that the current law regulating the validity of electronic identification does not stipulate the content of the case where the person granted must present the identification card at the request of a competent agency, organization or individual. Therefore, agencies, organizations or individuals are not allowed to request the person granted the card to present documents or provide information that has been printed or integrated into the identification card.

In addition, it is recommended that in case the information has changed compared to the information on the ID card, the cardholder must provide legally valid documents and papers proving the information has changed.

This leads to many agencies, organizations and individuals still requiring citizens to present documents or provide information that has been integrated into the electronic ID.

Therefore, it is necessary to add a regulation that does not require the presentation of documents or the provision of information that has been integrated into the electronic identity card.

The drafting agency emphasized that if this provision is not promptly supplemented, it will lose the value of integrating information into electronic identification, causing people to not see the benefits of using electronic identification.

The bill also adds provisions that in cases where information on the ID card changes due to administrative unit reorganization, or if the ID card is lost or damaged and cannot be used, the procedure for issuing or reissuing the ID card can be carried out online on the public service portal, the national identification application or directly at the place where the ID card issuance procedure is carried out.

Meeting scene - Photo: GIA HAN

Proposal for transport business cars with less than 8 seats to install driver monitoring devices

Regarding the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety, the drafting agency proposed to add regulations related to internal transport vehicles having to install journey monitoring devices and driver image recording devices.

Accordingly, commercial vehicles with less than 8 seats (not including the driver's seat) must be equipped with a device to record the driver's image. Commercial vehicles with 8 seats or more (not including the driver's seat) must be equipped with a device to record the passenger compartment's image.

Information from the drafting agency shows that after 7 months of implementing the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety, the management of transport business vehicles through journey monitoring devices and driver image recording devices is still very limited and has not met practical requirements.

Specifically, commercial transport vehicles with less than 8 seats are not required to install devices to record the driver's image, so drivers who violate the law cannot be managed or monitored.

Such as not wearing a seat belt, taking both hands off the steering wheel, using your feet to control the steering wheel, using your hands to use the phone while driving, speeding...

It is not possible to warn drivers when they show signs of abnormal driving, potentially unsafe driving such as falling asleep, not concentrating... which potentially cause traffic accidents.

The drafting agency added that the regulation that internal transport vehicles must install journey monitoring devices and driver image recording devices means that this person is formally transporting people and goods of the unit or enterprise itself, but in essence, participates in traffic like other types of transport business vehicles.

At the same time, these means of transporting people and goods are also a source of high danger (carrying many people on the vehicle, large cargo vehicles).

Therefore, it is necessary to monitor and manage drivers and routes to ensure safety for themselves and others participating in traffic.

The drafting agency stated that adding this provision is very necessary and urgent, creating a legal basis for monitoring, managing, supervising, detecting, and promptly handling violations of the law that cause insecurity...

Examining this content, Chairman of the National Defense, Security and Foreign Affairs Committee Le Tan Toi said that there was a proposal to conduct a full and comprehensive study and assessment of the impact on the cost of law compliance and the right to privacy protection with regulations requiring vehicles to install journey monitoring devices, devices to record images of drivers and images of passenger compartments.

At the same time, it is recommended to consider regulations on installing passenger compartment monitoring devices, because they are not related to personal data and passenger privacy.

The bill also removes the regulation that drivers of commercial vehicles cannot drive more than 48 hours per week. Instead, it amends and supplements the regulations on the continuous driving time of drivers in a day and a week to comply with the provisions of the Labor Code...

THANH CHUNG

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