The National Assembly agreed to split the Road Traffic Law into two laws.

The National Assembly agreed to separate the Road Traffic Law into the Road Law and the Road Traffic Order and Safety Law, expected to receive first comments at the 6th session, late 2023.

On the morning of June 2, the National Assembly passed a Resolution on the Law and Ordinance Development Program for 2024, adjusting the Law and Ordinance Development Program for 2023.

At the 6th session opening in October, the National Assembly gave opinions on 6 draft laws including the National Defense Industry, Security and Industrial Mobilization; the Road Law; the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety; the Law on the Capital (amended); the Law on the Organization of People's Courts (amended) and the Law on Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Property Auction.

The National Assembly also decided to add to the agenda of the 5th session and pass at the 6th session the draft Law on Forces Participating in Protecting Security and Order at the Grassroots Level.

Chairman of the Law Committee Hoang Thanh Tung. Photo: National Assembly Media — Chairman of the Law Committee Hoang Thanh Tung. Photo: *National Assembly Media*

Chairman of the Law Committee Hoang Thanh Tung said that there were opinions suggesting thorough consideration, clarification of the political basis, legal basis, practical basis, necessity of promulgation, and new points of the three draft Laws on Roads, Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety, and Law on Forces Participating in Protecting Security and Order at the Grassroots Level.

However, in recent times, the Government has seriously studied, absorbed, and fully explained the directives of the Politburo and the opinions of the 14th National Assembly deputies, clarifying the political, legal, and practical basis and the necessity of promulgating each project.

The development and promulgation of the Road Law and the Road Traffic Order and Safety Law aim to continue institutionalizing the Party's guidelines and policies, concretizing the provisions of the 2013 Constitution, internalizing relevant international treaties to which Vietnam is a member; overcoming the shortcomings and limitations of the current Road Traffic Law, meeting practical requirements.

Separating the current Road Traffic Law into two laws is also assessed by the National Assembly's review body as consistent with the trend of building specific laws with a narrow scope of regulation, focusing on one field, providing detailed regulations for immediate application, limiting the need to wait for the issuance of detailed regulations and implementation instructions.

Regarding the Road Law Project, the National Assembly Standing Committee has reviewed the scope of regulation and provisions of the draft Law to ensure clear distinction with the Road Traffic Order and Safety Project, fully institutionalizing the Party's guiding viewpoints on the development of road traffic infrastructure.

The draft law also supplements and updates the impact assessment on the contents of decentralization and delegation of authority in state management of roads, management of technological means of transport, and classification of types of transport business. The draft law supplements and clarifies the existing problems, shortcomings and solutions to overcome them in investment, construction, management, exploitation and maintenance of road traffic infrastructure.

In 2020, the Ministry of Transport reported to the Government to submit to the National Assembly the draft Law on Road Traffic (amended). At the same time, the Ministry of Public Security drafted the Law on Ensuring Road Traffic Order and Safety. At the 10th session of the 14th National Assembly, 63.79% of delegates did not agree to separate the Law into two Laws. The Government Office then requested the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public Security to continue to research, evaluate, and have a plan to receive and explain the opinions of National Assembly delegates on the above contents.

Son Ha

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