Extraordinary Session of the 5th National Assembly, 10th Term: When Did It Conclude? What Were the Main Contents of the 5th Extraordinary Session, 15th National Assembly?
When does the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly conclude?
On January 13, 2024, the Secretary-General of the National Assembly announced that the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly will open on January 15 and is expected to conclude on the morning of January 18. The session will be held in a concentrated manner at the National Assembly House, Hanoi Capital.
On the morning of January 15 at the National Assembly House, Hanoi Capital, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, along with other leaders of the Communist Party, the State, and the National Assembly, attended the solemn opening ceremony of the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly.
This extraordinary session is expected to take place over 3 days in a concentrated manner at the National Assembly House and will conclude on the morning of January 18. On January 17, the National Assembly will take a one-day break for the agencies of the National Assembly, the Government of Vietnam, and relevant agencies to absorb, revise, and perfect the draft laws and draft resolutions.
Thus, the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly is projected to take place from January 15, 2024, to January 18, 2024.
Source: Government of Vietnam Newspaper
When does the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly conclude? (Image from the Internet)
What are the main contents of the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly?
At the 5th Extraordinary Session of the 15th National Assembly, the National Assembly will consider and pass the following 4 contents:
(1) Draft Law on Land (amended): After being absorbed and revised, the Draft Law on Land (amended) presented to the National Assembly at the 5th Extraordinary Session includes 16 chapters, 260 articles, removes 5 articles, and amends and supplements 250 articles (both substantively and technically) compared to the draft law presented to the National Assembly at the 6th Session.
(2) Draft Law on Credit Institutions (amended): After being absorbed and revised, the Draft Law on Credit Institutions (amended) presented to the National Assembly at the 5th Extraordinary Session includes 15 chapters, 210 articles.
(3) Draft Resolution on some specific mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties, obstacles, and accelerate the progress of national target programs implemented under streamlined procedures: The Draft Resolution includes 6 articles, stipulating some specific mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties and obstacles, and accelerate the progress of national target programs, including: allocation, assignment of annual central budget recurrent expenditure estimates; adjustment of state budget estimates, annual capital investment plans for the national target program; issuance of regulations on procedures, criteria, and application forms for selecting production development projects...
(4) Supplementing the medium-term public investment plan with central budget capital for the period 2021-2025 from the general reserve source corresponding to the increased central budget revenue in 2022 for public investment tasks and projects, and supplementing the medium-term public investment plan for the Vietnam Electricity Group from the reserve source of the medium-term public investment plan.
The Draft Resolution includes 3 articles, stipulating the use of the general reserve of the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021-2025 and the allocation of the reserve source of the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021-2025.
Source: Government of Vietnam Newspaper
Regulations on organizing the extraordinary session program of the National Assembly
Article 91 of the Law on Organization of the National Assembly 2014 stipulates the program of the National Assembly session as follows:
Program of the National Assembly session
1. Based on the resolution of the National Assembly, the proposal of the President, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court, the Director of the Supreme People's Procuracy, the State Auditor General, the Ethnic Council, the Committees of the National Assembly, and National Assembly deputies, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly shall project the program of each session of the National Assembly.
The Standing Committee of the previous National Assembly shall project the program of the first session of the new National Assembly.
2. The projected program of each session of the National Assembly shall be announced in the mass media at least 15 days before the opening day for regular sessions and at least 4 days before the opening day for extraordinary sessions.
3. The National Assembly decides the program of each session of the National Assembly. In necessary cases, based on the proposal of the President, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court, the Director of the Supreme People's Procuracy, the State Auditor General, the Ethnic Council, the Committees of the National Assembly, and National Assembly deputies, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly shall submit to the National Assembly for decision on amendments and supplements to the session program.
An extraordinary session is still a session of the National Assembly; therefore, the program of the extraordinary session must also comply with the regulations on the session program as stipulated above.
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