(HNM) - The Hanoi People's Committee has just reported on the status of the draft Law on the Capital City (amended). Accordingly, the Hanoi People's Committee affirmed that the amendment and supplementation of the Law on the Capital City is one of the key tasks and breakthroughs of the 2020-2025 term set out in the Resolution of the 17th Congress of the City Party Committee.
Since the beginning of the term, the Steering Committee for drafting the Law on the Capital (amended) as well as the Party Committee of the City People's Committee have proactively implemented the procedures according to regulations. The City People's Committee has completed the dossier proposing to draft the Law on the Capital (amended) with 9 important policy groups, in the direction of truly giving Hanoi outstanding and feasible mechanisms, such as: Organizing the Capital government in a streamlined, professional, modern, effective and efficient manner; attracting and using high-quality human resources; developing urban areas and technical infrastructure, traffic, etc. At the meeting in February 2023, the Government highly appreciated and basically approved the 9 policy groups as proposed in the draft law; agreed on the necessity of promulgating this law project to build a number of specific and breakthrough mechanisms and policies, creating conditions for Hanoi to develop quickly and strongly, in accordance with the requirements, tasks and characteristics of the Capital.
To ensure the progress of submitting the draft Law on the Capital City (amended) to the National Assembly according to the 2-session process (submitting to the National Assembly for comments at the 6th session, October 2023 and considering and approving at the 7th session, May 2024), the City People's Committee has been working with the National Assembly agencies to continue listening to comments on policies in the draft law, agreeing on a number of key tasks in the coming time. At the same time, implementing the information and propaganda plan on the draft Law on the Capital City (amended); strengthening leadership and direction for the city's agencies, departments and branches to correctly and fully understand the meaning and special importance of developing the Law on the Capital City (amended); actively participating in the process of developing and contributing comments to perfect the draft Law on the Capital City (amended).
The City People's Committee has also coordinated with the Ministry of Justice to establish a research team to draft the Law on the Capital (amended), and institutionalize approved policies to promptly prepare documents and files to serve the Drafting Committee and the Draft Law Editorial Team.
The Capital Law was passed by the National Assembly on November 21, 2012 and took effect from July 1, 2013. This is an important legal document, regulating the position, role, responsibility and policies for building, developing and protecting the Capital. After nearly 10 years of implementation, the implementation of the specific mechanisms in the Capital Law has brought positive results in the construction, development and management of Hanoi city, but also revealed shortcomings and limitations that need to be amended and supplemented to meet the requirements of the new situation.
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