At the meeting, reporting a number of major issues on the explanation, reception and revision of the draft Road Law, Chairman of the National Assembly's National Defense and Security Committee Le Tan Toi said, about general regulations for the Road Law. Regarding highways (Article 47 of the draft Law submitted by the Government), there is a proposal to stipulate that highways must have at least 4 lanes and must have emergency stopping lanes.
The Standing Committee of National Defense and Security finds that the above opinion is correct. However, investment in highway construction also depends on the ability to balance the budget and mobilize resources; On the other hand, this is an issue of standards and technical regulations, which will be researched and regulated in detail by the Ministry of Transport. Therefore, the Standing Committee of National Defense and Security proposed not to specifically stipulate these contents in the draft Law.
Regarding investment in construction and development of highways (Article 50 of the draft Law submitted by the Government), there is a suggestion to consider the regulation that "compensation, support and resettlement work is carried out according to the scale of the project." plan" in Clause 4, Mr. Toi said: Based on the report of the Drafting Committee, evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the one-time site clearance plan according to the planning scale and the multiple-time site clearance plan according to the planning scale. progress of investment phasing, the Standing Committee of National Defense and Security found that basically, site clearance according to the planned scale does not significantly increase the total project investment, but brings many benefits. economic, social and project implementation organization.
Regarding limitations in management and use of land that has not been invested in construction at the phasing stage, some solutions can be applied such as planting trees to create landscape and take advantage of this land. Therefore, the Standing Committee of National Defense and Security agrees with the provisions of the draft Law submitted by the Government.
There are opinions that suggest considering the provisions in Clause 8, Article 50, because they are not consistent with the provisions of the Law on Investment in the form of public-private partnerships (PPP), the Standing Committee of National Defense and Security found that The opinion of the National Assembly is correct. However, if the value of existing road infrastructure assets is included in the state capital ratio in the project, the state capital ratio is often higher than the allowable level specified in the PPP Law, making it difficult to implement.
To overcome the above problems, the Standing Committee of National Defense and Security agreed with the content of the draft Law submitted by the Government, but proposed to move the content of Clause 8, Article 50 to Article 90 of the draft Law on acquisition and revision. to supplement regulations amending and supplementing Article 70 of the Law on Investment according to the public-private partnership method to meet practical requirements and ensure the consistency of the law.
Regarding expressway use fees (Article 54 of the draft Law submitted by the Government), there is a proposal to evaluate the necessity of regulating expressway use fees on expressways invested and owned by the State. , management and exploitation.
The Standing Committee of National Defense and Security found that, in order to implement the National Assembly's policy in the Resolutions approving investment in expressways, the Ministry of Transport has conducted research on toll collection plans on these routes. State-invested highways, assessing the impact in the case of tolls and no tolls for State-invested highways, the results show: State-invested highways All have parallel national highways, allowing traffic participants to choose to use expressways or national highways; Highway participants enjoy more benefits; The current form of road user toll collection does not classify regular road users and expressway users (who enjoy better service quality).
Therefore, the Standing Committee of National Defense and Security agrees with this content in the draft Law submitted by the Government and proposes to amend and supplement the provisions of the Law on Fees and Charges as stipulated in Article 90 of the draft Law.
Regarding the proposal to supplement regulations on the division of revenue from road use fees in cases where the central budget and local budget jointly invest, the Standing Committee of National Defense and Security said. Recently, the National Assembly has issued a number of resolutions on investment policies to build roads and expressways by combining central and local budgets.
However, the current State Budget Law and Law on Fees and Charges do not have regulations on the division of revenue from road use fees in this case. Therefore, to have a basis for dividing revenue from fees in accordance with construction investment projects using this method, the Standing Committee of National Defense and Security proposed to add Clause 3, Article 54 to the Government. regulations on expressway use fees and Clause 2, Article 90, regulations on amending and supplementing Article 18 of the Law on Fees and Charges as in the draft Law on acquisition and revision.
