Mr. Phan Dinh Trac: Reforming criminal policy, creating a legal framework for AI and cryptocurrencies.

On the morning of March 6th, the Ministry of Justice and the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics organized a national-level scientific conference titled "Innovating Thinking in Lawmaking and Implementation to Meet the Needs of National Development in the New Era".

Speaking at the conference, Head of the Central Internal Affairs Committee Phan Dinh Trac emphasized the urgent need to innovate the work of drafting and implementing laws to meet the requirements of national development in the new era. This requirement was set forth in Resolution 27 of the Central Committee.

Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission Phan Đình Trạc.

He noted that the legal system must be democratic, fair, humane, comprehensive, timely, consistent, unified, open, transparent, stable, feasible, and easily accessible. The process of drafting and enforcing laws must be centered around the people and businesses, ensuring both effective state management and the creation of internationally competitive development.

Furthermore, this work must remove bottlenecks, unlock all resources, promote potential, encourage creativity, protect those who dare to think, dare to act, and dare to innovate for the common good; attract and utilize talent, and embrace new ideas...

To meet these requirements, Mr. Phan Dinh Trac noted that it is necessary to innovate thinking about law, thinking about lawmaking and law enforcement. In particular, it is essential to ensure direct and comprehensive leadership, and to enhance the Party's role in lawmaking and law enforcement.

The Party promulgates policies and guidelines and leads the institutionalization of these into law. The Party leads the work of law enforcement to ensure the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law.

To ensure that laws are implemented effectively, the Party strengthens inspection and supervision of the process of institutionalizing policies and guidelines into laws, and the implementation of regulations on power control, corruption prevention, and combating vested interests in the process of lawmaking and enforcement.

"We must integrate life into the law before integrating the law into life. We must resolutely abandon the mindset of 'if we can't manage it, we must ban it.' Citizens and businesses should be allowed to do what the law doesn't prohibit; what is prohibited should be regulated by law; and what is not prohibited should create space for innovation and creativity. We should prioritize results-based management and shift strongly from pre-inspection to post-inspection," Mr. Trac affirmed.

He noted that it is necessary to mobilize all economic sectors, all businesses, and all citizens to participate in socio-economic development, labor and production, creating material and spiritual wealth to contribute to the growth and development of the country.

The Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission also noted the need to innovate thinking in law enforcement work, focusing on maximizing the spirit of serving the people, fostering development, and acting for the common good of officials and civil servants in law enforcement agencies...

Furthermore, he also requested proactive application of artificial intelligence, urgent development of national digital platforms, and the development of databases to ensure unified, interconnected operations and data exploitation; and emphasized improving the quality of policies, laws, and draft legal documents.

"The skill of translating policies into written documents, the language of legal regulations, is extremely difficult; not everyone can do it. If you truly lack the skills, if your grammar is not rigorous, your language is not clear, and especially if you lack dedication and responsibility, then you cannot do it," said Mr. Phan Dinh Trac.

The Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission also requested continued improvement of laws on the organization and operation of institutions within the political system, meeting the requirements of building and perfecting the socialist rule of law state of Vietnam in the new period, ensuring it is streamlined, strong, efficient, effective, and effective.

In particular, the Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission noted the need to improve criminal law and judicial procedures, further innovate criminal policy, and promptly build a legal framework for new, non-traditional issues such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum technology, digital economy, digital currency, population aging, and environmental pollution.

Dare to replace or eliminate laws that are no longer appropriate.

Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council and Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy, Nguyen Xuan Thang, also believes that it is necessary to innovate thinking about lawmaking and implementation to meet the changes of the times.

This involves shifting from a managerial mindset to a governance mindset focused on development; from a passive, reactive mindset focused on handling violations to a proactive mindset focused on new issues that urgently require timely legal adjustments; and ending the situation of "if you can't manage it, ban it."

Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy Nguyen Xuan Thang. Photo: Vietnam Law

In addition, Mr. Thang also noted the need to reduce bureaucratic thinking and increase thinking focused on serving the people and businesses, fostering development; and to build laws that serve to comprehensively improve the institutional framework for rapid and sustainable national development.

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang emphasized the need to innovate the methods of lawmaking and enforcement. He stressed the importance of perfecting the "one law amends many laws" mechanism to promptly amend and rectify conflicting and overlapping regulations within the legal system.

He also emphasized the importance of daring to replace or abolish outdated laws instead of merely "amending and supplementing" them, focusing on building new laws with innovative approaches...

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