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Set to take effect on April 1, the 2025 Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents (the Law), with 72 articles arranged in nine chapters, removes the competence of commune-level administrations to promulgate legal documents so as to meet the requirements on renewal and improvement of the lawmaking process.
As per Article 4 of the Law, resolutions of commune-level People’s Councils and decisions of commune-level People’s Committees will be removed from the legal document system, thereby decreasing the number of types of legal documents to 14 only.
Meanwhile, the Law adds one more type of legal document, i.e., resolution, which will be issued by the Government. Hence, the Government will promulgate decrees and resolutions. According to the drafter, the Ministry of Justice, it is necessary to increase the Government’s competence for promulgation of resolutions (in addition to decrees) with fast-track procedures to promptly settle arising problems.
Noticeably, legislative programs will replace the current law- and ordinance-making programs.
Article 24 of the Law says that, based on the National Assembly's tenure-based legislative orientations or the requirement for settlement of arising problems, the National Assembly Standing Committee will propose the formulation of the National Assembly’s laws and resolutions, and the National Assembly Standing Committee’s ordinances and resolutions.
For their part, the President, the Ethnic Council, the National Assembly’s Committees, the Government, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuracy will send proposals on the formulation of laws and resolutions of the National Assembly, and ordinances and resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee to the National Assembly Standing Committee before August 1 every year for inclusion in the legislative program for the following year.
Based on such proposals, the National Assembly Standing Committee will decide before October 1 every year on the legislative program for the following year.- (VLLF)
