Duties and powers of the Department of Legal Dissemination and Education in Vietnam

Duties and powers of the Department of Legal Dissemination and Education in Vietnam (Internet image)

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1. Position and functions of the Department of Legal Dissemination and Education in Vietnam

- The Department of Legal Dissemination and Education is a unit of the Ministry of Justice, with the function of advising and assisting the Minister of Justice in state management and law enforcement on law dissemination and education, grassroots conciliation, and the assessment and recognition of communes, wards, and towns that meet legal access standards according to the provisions of law.

- The Department of Legal Education and Dissemination (hereinafter referred to as the Department) is a unit with legal status, headquartered in Hanoi city, with its own seal and account according to the provisions of law.

(Article 1 of Decision 996/QD-BTP 2023)

2. Duties and powers of the Department of Legal Dissemination and Education in Vietnam

The duties and powers of the Department of Legal Dissemination and Education in Vietnam include:

- Develop and submit to the Minister strategies, planning, schemes, policies, programs, plans and projects, draft legal documents on the work of disseminating and educating the law, conciliation at the grassroots level, evaluating and recognizing communes, wards and towns that meet legal access standards for promulgation according to authority or submission to competent authorities for promulgation; Participate in developing, appraising, and commenting on projects and draft documents as assigned by Ministry leaders or at the request of units under the Ministry, units under other relevant ministries and branches.

- Develop and submit to the Minister the Department's long-term, 5-year, and annual work plans; Participate in building strategies, planning, long-term, 5-year, and annual development plans of the Justice sector.

- Organize the implementation of strategies, planning, plans, programs, schemes, projects, legal documents, and other documents in the fields under the management of the Department.

- Develop and submit to the Minister for promulgation or promulgate according to authority forms, criteria, standards, and professional rules in the fields under the management of the Department.

- Review, systematize, and consolidate legal documents and canonical legal systems in the fields under the Department's management according to the provisions of law and decentralization of the Ministry.

- Provide professional guidance and training in skills and operations, and monitor and urge the implementation of tasks in the fields of state management of the Department according to the provisions of law and decentralization of the Ministry.

- Monitor the implementation of laws, guidelines, and policies and propose solutions to improve policies and laws in the areas under the Department's management.

- Monitor and summarize the activities of legal reporters, legal propagandists, and mediators at the grassroots level; Implement solutions to build and improve the capacity and quality of human resources working on law dissemination, education, and mediation at the grassroots level; evaluate and recognize communes, wards, and towns that meet legal access standards.

- Advise and assist the Minister in carrying out the tasks of the Standing Agency of the Coordination Council for dissemination and education of central law; submit to the Minister for decision on recognition and dismissal of central law rapporteurs according to the provisions of law.

- Monitor and urge the implementation of the task of communicating draft policies in the development of legal documents, dissemination, and legal education in fields under the management of the Ministry of Justice; preside over organizing policy communication activities in formulating, implementing, and perfecting policies, disseminating, and educating about laws in the fields under the Department's management.

- Organize the implementation of information technology applications and digital transformation in the fields under the Department's management; Manage, operate, and upgrade the national law dissemination and education portal, the information system on law dissemination and education, conciliation at the grassroots level, evaluating and recognizing communes, wards, and towns that meet legal access standards.

- Advise and assist the Minister in performing state management tasks for the Association operating in the fields under the Department's management according to the provisions of law.

- Carry out inspection work, participate in inspections, and resolve recommendations, feedback, complaints, and denunciations in the fields under the Department's management according to the provisions of the law and decentralization of the Ministry.

- Carry out preliminary and final reviews, reporting, and statistics on the fields under the Department's management.

- Carry out international cooperation activities in the fields under the management of the Department according to the provisions of law and according to the decentralization of the Ministry.

- Participate in scientific research, training, and fostering of civil servants and public employees in the fields under the Department's management according to the provisions of the law and decentralization of the Ministry.

- Carry out the work of controlling administrative procedures, administrative reform, and judicial reform; clerical work, storage, protection of state secrets, and network security; preventing corruption, waste, and negativity; and handling violations of the law in areas under the Department's management according to legal regulations and decentralization of the Ministry.

- Implement financial and accounting regimes; Manage and use the Department's public assets according to the provisions of law and the Ministry.

- Carry out emulation, reward and management of the Department's civil servants and employees according to the provisions of law and decentralization of the Ministry.

- Perform other tasks assigned by the Minister.

(Article 2 of Decision 996/QD-BTP 2023)

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