The Department of Roads plans to propose transferring the task of testing and issuing driving licenses to the Ministry of Public Security.

The document signed by Deputy Director of the Vietnam Road Administration Phan Thi Thu Hien said that on January 2, the Party Committee of the Ministry of Transport issued a notice on the Resolution of the Party Committee to contribute comments to the draft Decree of the Government regulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Public Security. In which, the Vietnam Road Administration was assigned to preside over and coordinate with the Department of Transport and the Department of Legal Affairs to study the content of testing and granting driving licenses, report to the Party Committee for consideration, and provide official comments in writing to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Public Security.

After studying, the Vietnam Road Administration plans to report to the Party Committee of the Ministry of Transport on the contents, including recommending that the Ministry of Transport agree to transfer the tasks of training, testing, and granting driving licenses to the Ministry of Public Security; recommending that the Ministry of Transport request the Ministry of Justice to preside over amending relevant legal documents and compile them into the dossier for drafting a "Resolution on handling issues arising from the arrangement of the organizational apparatus", submitting it to the competent authority for approval to ensure the smooth transfer of tasks from the Ministry of Transport to the Ministry of Public Security.

A leader of the Vietnam Road Administration said that the agency has agreed to transfer the task of managing, testing, and issuing road motor vehicle driving licenses to the Ministry of Public Security.

Also according to the representative of the Vietnam Road Administration, in order to transfer the task of managing, testing, and granting road motor vehicle driving licenses from the Ministry of Transport to the Ministry of Public Security, the Administration proposed that the Ministry of Transport propose to the Ministry of Justice to preside over the amendment of relevant legal documents, including: Clause 9, Article 57, Clause 8, Article 60, Clause 7, Article 61, Clause 6, Article 62, Clause 4, Article 63 and Clause 3, Article 87 of the Law on Road Traffic Safety and Order; Point b, Clause 3, Article 10, Point a, Clause 2, Article 12 of Decree No. 151/2024/ND-CP dated November 15, 2024...