Law on Medical Examination and Treatment (amended); Bidding Law (amended); Law on Emulation and Commendation (amended); The Identity Law… will take effect in 2024.
Law on Medical Examination and Treatment (amended)
Passed by the 15th National Assembly at the 2nd Extraordinary Session, with 12 chapters, 121 Articles (an increase of 3 chapters and 30 articles compared to the 2009 Law on Medical Examination and Treatment), Law on Medical Examination and Treatment (amended) effective from January 1, 2024.
The law has basic new points that are expected to remove difficulties and obstacles in recent times, bringing positive changes to the health sector in the coming time.
Specifically, regarding regulations related to patients, the Law supplements the patient’s right to petition and request compensation; clearly identify the patient’s representative and the replacement of the patient’s representative; regulations on patients without relatives and processes, procedures, and responsibilities in receiving and handling patients without relatives…
Regarding regulations related to practitioners, the Law has added 3 additional positions that require a license to practice (clinical nutritionist, outpatient paramedic, clinical psychologist); The condition to be granted a practice license is to be assessed by the National Medical Council as having enough capacity to practice at the practice capacity assessment test.
The Law on Medical Examination and Treatment (amended) also specifically stipulates cases and decentralization of authority to issue new, re-issued, extend, adjust practice licenses, suspend practice, and revoke practice licenses. ; Term of the Practicing License (5 years from the date of new issue, re-issue, extension, adjustment); Regulating scholarship policies and State support policies to develop and improve the quality of medical examination and treatment human resources…
Regarding the organizational system of medical examination and treatment facilities, the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment (amended) adjusts the organizational system of medical examination and treatment facilities from the current 4 administrative levels to 3 professional levels. Techniques include initial medical examination and treatment; Providing basic medical examination and treatment and providing specialized medical examination and treatment. At the same time, the Law stipulates a roadmap for implementing this regulation to ensure feasibility.
Bidding Law (amended)
Effective from January 1, 2024, the Bidding Law (amended) includes 10 Chapters and 96 Articles regulating State management of bidding activities; Authority and responsibility of agencies, organizations and individuals in bidding activities, contractor selection activities to implement bidding packages, investor selection activities to implement business investment projects.
The law applies to agencies, organizations and individuals participating in or related to bidding activities including: contractor selection activities using State budget capital according to the provisions of the State Budget Law , capital from legal revenue sources according to the provisions of Law of State agencies and public service units; contractor selection activities for implementation; Investor selection activities to implement business investment projects.
Regarding 9 groups of prohibited acts in bidding activities, the Law adds the purpose of the acts in the regulations prohibiting bid-rigging acts; Supplementing regulations prohibiting violations of the Law on network safety and security to interfere with and hinder online bidding.
A notable point about selecting contractors to supply chemicals and medical equipment is that the Law covers cases of purchasing chemicals and medical equipment, clearly regulating the transfer of management and use rights. /transfer of ownership in each specific purchase case. This is a comprehensive procurement model that includes chemicals, testing supplies, medical equipment, warranty, maintenance… as well as the right to use medical equipment for a certain period of time.
Law on Emulation and Commendation (amended)
With 8 chapters and 96 articles, the Law on Emulation and Commendation (amended) also officially takes effect from January 1, 2024, and is expected to create a strong change in the organization and implementation of the patriotic emulation movement. and the work of rewarding the period of industrialization and modernization of the country.
The Law on Emulation and Commendation (amended) clearly demonstrates the principle of “whatever the achievement is, there will be praise” and promotes the timeliness of rewards based on merit and achievements to overcome the situation of praise. Previous “cumulative achievements” bonus.
In order to implement stronger decentralization and decentralization in emulation and reward work, the Additional Law stipulates that the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security stipulate the authority to recognize the titles “Advanced Laborer”, “Advanced Soldier”. advanced”, “Advanced labor collective”, “Advanced unit”.
Supplementing specific regulations on the authority of Ministers, Heads of Ministries, Departments and branches to award the title “Advanced Labor Collective”, “Grassroots Emulation Soldier”, “Advanced Labor” or authorization Recognize the titles “Advanced Labor Collective”, “Grassroots Emulation Soldier”, “Advanced Labor” for individuals and collectives belonging to agencies, organizations, units under Ministries, departments and branches. have legal status.
At the same time, the Law adds regulations on the authority of the heads of agencies assigned by the National Assembly Standing Committee to advise and assist in emulation and commendation. Decentralize to ministries, departments, branches and provinces in the direction that the Law will stipulate general standards for emulation titles and forms of reward; At the same time, assign Ministries, departments, branches and provinces on the basis of general provisions of the Law, based on the characteristics and situation of each subject, field and profession to specifically stipulate a number of assigned contents in the Law. suitable for each region, industry and field…
Identity Law
At the 6th Session, the 15th National Assembly passed the Law on Identification, effective from July 1, 2024 with 7 chapters and 46 Articles.
Regarding transitional regulations, the newly passed Law on Identification clearly states that citizen identification cards issued before the effective date of this law are valid until the expiration date printed on the card. Citizens will be given an identification card when they need it.
In case the ID card is still valid, it can be used until December 31, 2024.
Hanoi City Police issue citizen identification cards with chips for people on mobile buses. (Photo: Dac Huy)
Legally valid documents issued using information from identity cards and citizen identification cards shall retain their validity; State agencies are not allowed to request citizens to change or adjust information on ID cards or citizen identification cards in issued documents.
Citizen identification cards and identity cards that expire from January 15, 2024 to before June 30, 2024 will continue to be valid until June 30, 2024.
Regulations on the use of citizen identification cards and identity cards in legal documents issued before the effective date of this law are applied as for identification cards issued under the provisions of law. This.
Law on Electronic Transactions (amended)
The Law on Electronic Transactions (amended) was passed by the 15th National Assembly with nearly 95% of delegates approving and officially applied from July 1, 2024.
Regarding the scope of regulation, the law only regulates the implementation of transactions by electronic means, does not regulate the content, form, and conditions of transactions in fields regulated by specialized laws.
Regarding electronic signatures, the Law on Electronic Transactions (amended) stipulates that electronic signatures are used to confirm the signing subject and confirm that subject’s approval of the data message sent. signature and must be created as electronic data that is logically attached or combined with the data message.
Other forms of confirmation by electronic means such as scanned signatures, image signatures, one-time passwords (OTP), messages… are not electronic signatures.
Price Law (amended)
The Price Law (amended) passed by the National Assembly at the 5th Session will take effect from July 1, 2024.
With 8 Chapters and 75 Articles, it still basically comprehensively regulates issues related to management, price regulation, and price appraisal. However, with issues of land prices, housing prices, electricity prices, medical examination and treatment service prices, tuition fees, service prices in the field of education – training, vocational education, royalties When exploiting and using works, audio or video recordings, it must comply with the provisions of specialized laws.
Gasoline and finished oil products continue to be regulated as price-stabilized items. This is an item for which a Price Stabilization Fund has been established for many years and this fund will be maintained and used as a price stabilization measure when gasoline and oil prices have unusual fluctuations. Instead of petroleum enterprises being the focal point for management, according to the Law, the Government will be responsible for managing, using and publicizing this fund.
In addition, essential goods and services that have a monopoly in purchase and sale or have a limited competitive market and greatly affect the socio-economic, people’s lives, production and business, will be approved by the State. pricing country.
Domestic air tickets are one of the services in this category. According to regulations, the Ministry of Transport, the focal management agency, will set the ceiling price of this service, to ensure that many people have access to the service.
The new law also adds prohibited acts. In particular, those who commit acts of spreading untrue or inaccurate information about the socio-economic situation will be punished, causing disturbances in market information, prices of goods and services.
Taking advantage of emergencies, incidents, disasters, natural disasters, fires, and epidemics to increase the selling price of goods and services inconsistent with fluctuations in overall cost compared to normal conditions for profiteering. . Guidance on organizing the implementation of the revised Price Law is being finalized for promulgation.
Thus, the State will continue to control prices of essential monopolistic goods and services. At the same time, measures on price declaration and price listing are also clearly regulated, to ensure the benefits of the people, without negative impacts on consumers and production and business activities of enterprises.