The deputies spent much time in the morning discussing the draft law on the issuance of law-regulated documents and underlined the need to simplify the legal system.

According to Chairman of the NA Committee for Legal Affairs Nguyen Van Thuan and Deputy Minister of Justice Hoang The Lien, currently Vietnam has more than 20 types of legal documents, which were issued by different agencies, causing difficulties for the enforcement agencies in implementing them. They proposed simplifying law-regulated documents, first those issued by the Government, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuracy, while maintaining the documents issued by the NA, the NA Standing Committee, the State President and the Judge Council of the Supreme People’s Court.

At their request, the Government’s resolutions, the Prime Minister’s decrees and decisions by the Chief Judge of the Supreme People’s Court and the Director of the Supreme People’s Procuracy will be no longer law-regulated documents. As a result, the Government’s decrees, the Prime Minister’s decisions and circulars by the Chief Judge of the Supreme People’s Court and the Director of the Supreme People’s Procuracy will remain to be law-regulated documents.

However, Chairman of the NA Committee for Finance and Budgetary Affairs Phung Quoc Hien wondered about the legal value of current documents after the law is issued to ensure consistency within the legal system. He stressed that the simplification should not affect the performance of the Government, ministries and agencies.

Meanwhile, other deputies argued that this is merely a process of simplifying the name of law-regulated documents, not the documents themselves.