Tasks and powers of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam in promulgating legal documents

Tasks and powers of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam in the field of drafting and promulgating legal documents are as follows:

1. To submit to the Government draft laws and resolutions of the National Assembly, draft ordinances and resolutions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, and draft decrees of the Government under the Ministry’s approved annual law-making programs and plans, and resolutions, mechanisms, policies, projects, schemes and other legal documents under the Ministry’s state management as assigned by the Government or Prime Minister.

2. To submit to the Government and Prime Minister development strategies and master plans and long-term, medium-term and annual plans; and important national projects and works in the sectors and fields under its management.

To submit to the Prime Minister draft decisions, directives and other documents to be promulgated by the Prime Minister.

To approve development strategies, master plans and programs in the sectors and fields under its management as decentralized or authorized by the Government or Prime Minister.

3. To promulgate circulars, decisions, directives, national technical regulations, processes, rules, and techno-economic norms; to develop national standards for the management of the sectors and fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law; to guide and inspect the implementation of these documents.

4. To publicize, direct, guide, examine, inspect, evaluate, review, report and take responsibility for, the implementation of approved mechanisms, policies, strategies, master plans and plans under its state management; to disseminate and educate about the laws concerning the sectors and fields under its state management.

5. To examine legal documents promulgated by other ministries, provincial-level People’s Councils or People’s Committees relating to the sectors or fields under the Ministry’s state management; if detecting any of these legal documents is contrary to legal documents in the sectors or fields under its management, to handle them in accordance with law.

View details at Decree No. 15/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from February 17, 2017.

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