6 IMPORTANT CONTENTS IN APPRAISAL OF A DRAFT DECREE
On June 18, 2020, the National Assembly passes the Law No. 63/2020/QH14, Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents.
Accordingly, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the Government and the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front shall also promulgate joint resolutions for guiding a number of necessary issues in the election of deputies to the National Assembly or People’s Councils besides detailing issues assigned by a law.
In addition, the Law provides that the submission report of the draft document must clearly state the necessity of promulgation of the law, ordinance or resolution; objectives and viewpoints of formulation of the law, ordinance or resolution; the drafting process; structure and basic contents of the draft document; consistency of the draft document with legal documents in its field and fields related to its contents; and conformity of the draft document with relevant treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a contracting party.
Besides, the appraisal of a draft decree must focus on many contents such as: The necessity to promulgate the decree; The conformity of the draft decree with the Party’s line and guidelines and the State’s policies; The consistency of the draft decree with the to-be-detailed document, for the decrees prescribed in Clause 1, Article 19 of this Law; The necessity, reasonability and compliance cost of administrative procedures in the draft decree; Human and financial resources necessary; Language and drafting techniques and process, etc.
This Law takes effect on January 01, 2021.
