VietNamNet Bridge – The Government continued with its special meeting on creating legislation yesterday (Aug 13), discussing amendments and supplements to several laws and draft laws.

The Law on the Amendments and Supplements to a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance has been revised and seen additions to 17 of its 52 articles.

Accordingly, the draft Law on Environment Protection (amended) includes 19 chapters and 165 articles, four chapters and 29 articles more than the current law.

Cabinet members agreed that rapid socio-economic development and arising environment issues, including climate change and environment security, require updated and relevant laws.

More attention needs to be paid to overcoming the shortcomings of the 2005 Law on Environment Protection and adding some contents related to green growth, climate change, environment security, pollution and measures against degradation, they said.

Regarding the amendments to the 2005 Civil Code, the cabinet said that the supplements and amendments are necessary to make the code a common law regulating social relations on the principles of freedom, equality and self responsibility between all participating parties.

This will contribute to protecting the rights of organisations and individuals in civil exchanges and building a socialist-orientated market economy.

Debating the direction of the draft law on investments and the management of State investment in businesses, they said that the draft law should include a full and specific legal framework on capital investment and management, define the power, functions and tasks of State capital and ensure the equality of all economic compositions.

Meanwhile, the Law on the Amendments and Supplements to a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance has been revised and seen additions to 17 of its 52 articles.

This will help to institutionalise the Party's policies on developing health insurance for all people, limit irrationalities in the existing law, perfect a legal framework to raise the efficiency of State management on health insurance and ensure the rights and interests of insured patients during treatment.

The revised Marriage and Family Law, changed 50 articles and added another 57 to the existing law, which is expected to meet the reality of modern day marriage and family life in Viet Nam.

Cabinet members also exchanged views on controversial issues such as the legal age of marriage, same sex marriages, legal separations and surrogate pregnancies.

Source: VNS