The President’s Office yesterday announced an ordinance on amendments and supplements to several articles of four ordinances relating to planning.

The President’s Office yesterday announced an ordinance on amendments and supplements to several articles of four ordinances relating to planning.

At a press conference yesterday, vice chairman of the President’s Office Chu Xuân Yêm announced the President’s order on the ordinance which affects four other ordinances –the Ordinance on Defence Industry, the Ordinance on Market Management, the Ordinance on Preferential Policies for Revolution Contributors, and the Library Ordinance.

Accordingly, the ordinance amends some articles of the Ordinance on Defence Industry relating to development planning of the industry, authorities that are empowered to approve the planning, the approval and implementation of programmes/projects on the industry, inspection over the implementation as well as land for the defence industry.

The ordinance amends Point A, Item 1, Article 4 of the Ordinance on Market Management on the implementation of strategies/plans to develop market watch force.

The Ordinance on Library now has an amendment on the implementation of strategies/plans to develop library and library network within cultural and sports facilities.

The Ordinance on Preferential Policies for Revolution Contributors has an amendment referring to planning to build social sponsor centres for people who contributed to national defence, construction and revolution.

Another amendment relates to planning for martyr monuments.

Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Lê Quang Mạnh said the Law on Planning was approved by the National Assembly at its meeting in November, 2017 and took effect this year.

On December 22, 2018, The National Assembly Standing Committee approved an ordinance on amendments and supplements to several articles of the four ordinances to make them match the Law on Planning.

As the Law on Planning was approved, the National Assembly also approved two laws – the law on amendments and supplements to 11 other laws related to planning and the other law on amendments and supplements to several articles of 37 laws.

(Source: VNS)