Contents to be disclosed by Heads of Agencies and Units under the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam

Contents to be disclosed by Heads of Agencies and Units under the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam​ (Image from the internet)

On October 23, 2024, the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam issued Decision 1996/QD-BTP regarding Regulations on implementing democracy in the activities of the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam.

Contents to be disclosed by Heads of Agencies and Units under the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam

Except for information classified as state secrets, work secrets or information not yet disclosed as per legal prescriptions, the Minister and heads of units under the Ministry, based on their management scope, are to implement the following disclosures within the internal agency or unit:

- Guidelines, policies of the Vietnam Communist Party, and the laws of the State related to the organization and activities of the agency, unit.

- Annual, quarterly, and monthly work programs and plans of the agency, unit.

- Figures, explanatory reports of state budget estimates approved by the competent authority and other financial sources; the situation of budget estimate implementation and the agency's, unit's annual budget settlement; results of implementing audit agency recommendations (if any).

- Standards, norms, use of public assets; the situation of investment construction, procurement, assignment, lease, use, retrieval, transfer, functional change, sale, liquidation, destruction, and other forms of handling public assets; exploitation of financial resources from managed, used public assets.

- Principles, criteria, norms for allocating public investment capital; principles, criteria, bases for determining project lists in medium and annual public investment plans; public investment plans and programs of the agency, unit; capital allocation by year, implementation progress, and disbursement of public investment program capital; medium and annual public investment capital allocation plans including project lists and investment capital for each project; status of resource mobilization and other funding sources participation in public investment project execution; the situation and results of plan, program, project implementation; project execution progress and disbursement; results of inspection and evaluation of programs, projects; public investment capital finalization.

- Recruitment, reception, training, fostering, rotation, appointment, reappointment, transfer, secondment, resignation, dismissal, planning, job position conversion; work contract conclusion, job title change, work position change, contract termination; overseas business travel; policy resolution, salary increase, rank promotion, evaluation, classification of officials and public employees, workers; reward, discipline, resignation, retirement for officials and public employees, workers.

- Conclusions by the competent authority on negative cases, corruption, wastefulness within the agency, unit; asset and income declarations of individuals required to declare by law.

- Inspection, examination, complaint, denunciation, and recommendation resolution results within the agency, unit.

- Internal rules, regulations, and policies of the agency, unit; code of conduct for individuals in positions of authority within the agency, unit.

- Summarized opinions and explanations, feedback from officials and public employees, workers regarding the content on which they participate in comments as stipulated in Article 14 of these Regulations.

- Guiding, managerial documents from higher-level management agencies relating to the operations of the agency, unit.

- Other contents as prescribed by law and the agency or unit's democracy implementation regulations.

More details can be found in Decision 1996/QD-BTP, effective as of October 23, 2024.

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