Proposal to amend regulations on collective economy in the road sector in Vietnam

Proposal to amend regulations on collective economy in the road sector in Vietnam (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

On July 20, 2023, the Ministry of Transport of Vietnam issued Decision 867/QD-BGTVT promulgating the 2024 collective and cooperative economic development plan.

Proposal to amend regulations on collective economy in the road sector in Vietnam

Specifically, the Ministry of Transport of Vietnam has proposed solutions for collective economic development in 2024 in the field of transportation as follows:

- Continue to strengthen propaganda to guide cooperatives to effectively implement Resolution 20-NQ/TW in 2022; Plan 10-KH/TW in 2022; and Resolution 09/NQ-CP in 2023.

- Continue to actively advise the Government to promulgate mechanisms and policies to create conditions for transport business units to stabilize and develop their production and business activities.

- Review and propose timely amendments and supplements to legal provisions on collective economy in the fields of road, inland waterways, and maritime to improve the efficiency and quality of the State's support policies and state management of the collective economy.

Have policies to support, attract resources, apply science - technology, the green economy, digital transformation, market expansion, and ensure consistency and synchronization for the development of transport cooperatives.

- Regularly organize training conferences for officials, employees, and members of transport cooperatives on the State's incentives and support to encourage collective economic development and cooperatives and regulations in transport business and regulations on traffic safety.

- Strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of supervision, inspection, examination, and accountability of agencies and organizations for the observance of the Party's guidelines and lines, policies, and the State's law on collective economic development, promptly detecting and strictly handling violations in transport business activities, and ensuring the traffic safety of transport cooperatives.

- Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management over the collective economy; Consolidate a contingent of managers with professional expertise, solid political ideology, and the ability to effectively formulate and organize the effective implementation of laws, mechanisms, policies, and strategies for collective economic development in the right direction.

- Organize contact with transport enterprises and transport cooperatives to evaluate the activities of transport cooperatives; multiply the typical advanced transport cooperatives to create spillover effects;

Create conditions for transport cooperatives to access the international transport market and participate in cross-border transport activities under the Agreement on Transport between Vietnam and countries in the region so that the cooperatives can quickly integrate.

- Promote the application of information technology in the management of transport activities of the cooperative, build a team of cooperatives with modern management, keeping up with the management requirements of the transport market.

Propagate and encourage transport cooperatives to use electronic transport trading floors to capture and access goods, improving the efficiency of transport activities.

- Study the actual operation of transport cooperatives and transport businesses to propose mechanisms and preferential policies, support capital, infrastructure, vehicles, etc.

At the same time, encourage the establishment of cooperative unions and transport business cooperative federations to meet the development needs of society.

- Study and actively implement the Law on Cooperatives (No. 17/2023/QH15).

- Inspect and coordinate in examining the implementation of the directives of the Party, the State, relevant ministries, and branches for the development of the collective economy.

Thus, the proposal to amend the legal regulations on collective economy in the road sector is part of the solutions for collective economic development in 2024 in Decision 867/QD-BGTVT.

05 specific goals in the development of collective and cooperative economies in 2024 of the Ministry of Transport of Vietnam

According to Decision 867/QD-BGTVT, the Ministry of Transport has set out specific goals for collective and cooperative economic development in 2024 as follows:

(1) Consolidate, maintain, and stabilize the quality development of existing transport cooperatives, paying attention to their size and supplementing their resources.

(2) Strive to stabilize the number of cooperatives engaged in the transport business.

(3) Focus on investing in means of transport to gradually improve the quality of transport services, especially strengthening the role of cooperatives in the business of public bus transport in urban areas.

(4) Ensure the management staff of transport cooperatives is trained in professional knowledge and skills.

(5) Cooperatives promote strict management of transport activities and traffic safety.

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