National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue addressing the opening of the 32nd session of the National Assembly Standing Committee. Photo: VOV

In his opening speech, Chairman Hue said the session will comment on the law and ordinance building program in 2025 and adjustments to the law and ordinance building program in 2024.

The draft laws scheduled for the first consideration at the NA’s upcoming 7th session include the draft revised Law on Cultural Heritage, the draft Law on Justice for Juveniles, the draft amended Law on Value Added Tax, the draft Law on Urban and Rural Planning, and the draft Law amending and supplementing several articles of the Pharmacy Law.

The 32nd session of the National Assembly Standing Committee. Photo: VOV

The National Assembly Standing Committee will give opinions on a report on the outcomes of the supervision program for 2023 and early months of 2024, the scheduled supervision programs for 2025 of the NA and NA Standing Committee.

Participants will also discuss a report on the NA’s oversight of the implementation of the NA’s Resolution on fiscal-monetary policies to support the socio-economic recovery and development programs, and the NA’s resolutions on several key projects until the end of 2023.

Full-time legislators will examine a proposal on adjusting the investment policy for the national target program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas during the 2021-2023 period, and a pre-feasibility report for construction of the western North-South expressway’s Gia Nghia-Chon Thanh section.