Avoid the situation where subordinates ask superiors for everything.

The meeting reviewed and gave opinions on 4 contents: Draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance; Draft Law on Data; Proposal to develop a Law on Personal Data Protection; Proposal to develop a Law on Lawyers (amended).

This is the second specialized law-making meeting in September and the 10th specialized law-making meeting in 2024 of the Government. Attending the meeting were Deputy Prime Ministers Tran Hong Ha and Le Thanh Long; Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies; leaders of relevant ministries, branches and agencies.

Speaking at the opening of the meeting, the Prime Minister pointed out that building and perfecting institutions and laws is one of the three strategic breakthroughs because institutions are both a resource and a driving force for development.

According to the Prime Minister, at the 10th Central Conference, the Central Committee discussed and showed that it is necessary to further promote the building and improvement of institutions. Along with practical requirements, one of the reasons why officials still shirk responsibility, are afraid of responsibility, and are afraid of making mistakes is due to the institutions. Therefore, it is necessary to remove institutional obstacles so that civil servants dare to do things and are not afraid of making mistakes. The Central Committee also agreed to strengthen human resources, facilities, and treatment for those involved in making institutions.

The Prime Minister clearly stated the spirit of the 10th Central Conference of the 13th tenure is to promote decentralization and delegation of power; avoid having lower levels "ask" higher levels for anything, but must base it on regulations. We build a socialist rule-of-law state of the people, by the people, for the people; base it on the regulations of the Politburo and the Secretariat; no matter how small the problem is, it must be submitted to the Central Committee for decision; request Ministers, leaders of ministries, branches, and heads of agencies to thoroughly grasp this spirit to resolve problems, promote stronger decentralization and delegation of power, go hand in hand with resource allocation, and at the same time enhance responsibility and implementation capacity from lower levels.

The Prime Minister said that in his opening speech at the 10th Central Conference, General Secretary and President To Lam clearly stated the spirit of "locality decides, locality acts, locality takes responsibility"; the Central, National Assembly, and Government only issue mechanisms, guidelines, and design monitoring and inspection tools. Ministers and heads of sectors only deal with strategic issues, planning, and orientation of important development programs and guidelines for the country, and should not get caught up in specific issues that can easily create a "request-grant" environment, avoiding negativity. The Central budget only invests in inter-regional, national, and international projects and programs; provincial-level programs and projects are decided by provinces and cities; administrative reform must be promoted right in law-making, reflected in the provisions of the Law, Circulars, and Decrees.

Expressing dissatisfaction with a number of Decrees that have assigned some ministries and sectors to complete early but have not yet been completed, the Prime Minister requested that Ministers and sector heads uphold the spirit of serving the country and the people, daring to think, daring to do, daring to take responsibility. Believing that internal administrative procedures are still cumbersome, the Prime Minister requested that the consultation of Government members, if there is no response after the deadline, must be considered as agreement. "The Party's leadership principle is that the minority obeys the majority," the Prime Minister noted.

In order to avoid the situation where the more laws are issued, the more difficult it is to implement, the Prime Minister requested to build laws to strengthen management but must create a development environment, not tighten and narrow; when amending laws, we must be bold, and remove any obstacles; overlapping laws are very difficult to implement and do not encourage innovation.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested members of the Government, Ministers, and Heads of sectors to directly direct the drafting of laws; prioritize human resources, facilities, and finances for this work; uphold the spirit of responsibility, focus on democracy, discipline, and administrative discipline; if anyone is afraid of responsibility, they should "stand aside". When responding, ministries and sectors must be specific, not general, and the assignment must be "clear about the person, the work, the responsibility, the implementation time, the effectiveness, and the products", not shirk responsibility, and first of all, serve well the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly.