Government prioritises legislation

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has chaired a two-day government meeting on legislation where cabinet members discussed the government’s legislative agenda and issuance of legal guidance on existing laws in the first half of the year and plans for the remaining months. PM Dung asked cabinet members to focus all available resources to quickly formulate and issue documents guiding laws that had already been passed.

Cabinet members also debated the draft law on religion and belief, the draft law on access to information, the revised law on import-export taxes, the law on administrative decisions and the draft law on property auctions. They also discussed the implementation of the Enterprise Law and the 2014 Investment Law as well as major directions for the formulation of the law on associations.