Hanoi (VNA) – Legislators passed the lawamending and supplementing a number of articles of laws relating to thePlanning Law on June 15, also the last working day of the fifth meeting of the14th National Assembly.

Most of the delegates agreed on the need to issuethe law in order to ensure that regulations of relevant laws are consistentwith the Planning Law.

The 11 related laws are the Law on Food Safety, theLaw on Notary, the Pharmacy Law, the Law on Investment, the Law on PublicInvestment, the Law on Electricity, the Law on Chemicals, the Law onScience-Technology, the Law on Tobacco Harm Prevention, the Law on Economicaland Efficient Use of Energy and the Child Law.

The law amending and supplementing a number ofarticles of laws relating to the Planning Law will help avoid legal loopholesand bottlenecks in building, assessing, ratifying and implementing planningschemes, they said.

Adopted with 96.7 percent of votes, the document isscheduled to take effect on January 1, 2019.

The same day, the deputies approved the resolutionon continuing to perfect and accelerate the implementation of policies and lawson managing and using State capital and assets at businesses, and equitisingState-owned enterprises. Up to 97.33 percent of the legislators showed theirsupport for the resolution.

According to the resolution, State enterprises havefocused more on key economic fields or those not included in businessstrategies of businesses in other economic sectors. They continue to play animportant role in national economic development, contributing to ensuringsocialist orientations.

State enterprises have shown stable growth trends.Meanwhile, income, rights and interests of labourers have been basicallyensured, it says.

The equitisation process has taken place asscheduled, reaping positive outcomes. After equitisation, the businesses haveoperated more transparently, with suitable scale and capital structure,effective production and business activities and higher State budgetcontributions. As a result, labourers’ income has also been improved. 

However, there remain shortcomings and violations oflaws on business administration and financial management.

To deal with such limitations, the resolution assignsthe Government to promptly perfect policies and laws on managing and usingState capital and assets at businesses, and equitising State enterprises.

The Government has also been asked to soon submitsupplements to contentious contents of the law on managing and using Stateinvestments in production and business at businesses, the Law on Enterprises,the Bidding Law, the Construction Law, the Investment Law, the Land Law andother related documents.

The Government needs to issue documents on criteriaassessing production and business of State enterprises in different sectors andregions no later than May 2019.

Under the resolution, the Government will closelymonitor the mobilisation and use of capital of State businesses, especiallyforeign debts, domestic and foreign investments, merger and acquisitioncapital, while limiting the Government’s guarantee to State enterprises.

The Government will revamp mechanisms to enablebusinesses to take the initiative in paying wages and bonuses based onproductivity, and attract highly-skilled labourers.

The same day, the lawmakers passed the resolution onestablishing the thematic inspection delegation of the legislature in 2019 andthe resolution on establishing the thematic inspection delegation on theimplementation of policies and laws on firefighting during 2014-2018./.