•  Standing Committee first session focused on improving NA operations

Addressing the opening ceremony, National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung said the second session of the 13th NA Standing Committee focuses on the preparations for the second session of the 13th legislature.

The Standing Committee will hear the Committee for People's Aspiration report on dealing with citizens’ complaints and denunciations and voters’ petitions to the 8th and 9th meetings of the 12th NA.

It will also discuss a plan to build laws and ordinances, a report on the implementation of laws and policies on the environment in economic zones and craft villages, a Government report on land use plans for the 2011-2015 period and the 2011-2020 period and a national target programme for the 2011-2015 period, a government bond-using programme for the 2011-2015 period and a project to renovate and improve the operational quality and efficiency of the NA.

The committee will also contribute opinions to a Government report on the implementation of socio-economic plans and State budget estimates for 2011; socio-economic development orientations, tasks and plans; State budget estimates and allocation plans for 2012; and socio-economic development plans for the 2011-2015 period.

It will also focus on the question of adjusting and completing important laws, such as the Tertiary Education Law, the Advertising Law, the Price Management Law, Law on Legal Dissemination and Education, Law on Judicial Assessment and Tobacco Harm Prevention Law.