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The Government issued Resolution No. 231/NQ-CP dated August 14, 2026 on receiving, explaining and revising the draft Law on Grassroots Mediation (amended). Download The Government approved the Report on the reception and explanation of the draft Law on Grassroots Mediation (amended). Specifically, the Government resolved to approve the Report on the reception, explanation and revision of the draft Law on Grassroots Mediation (amended) at the request of the Ministry of Justice in Report No. 685/BC-BTP dated August 12, 2026. The Ministry of Justice is responsible for the content of explanation, reception and revision of the draft Law on Grassroots Conciliation (amended). The Minister of Justice receives and fully explains the opinions of Government Members and completes the Law project documents according to regulations. On that basis, assign the Minister of Justice, authorized by the Prime Minister, on behalf of the Government to sign the Report on receipt, explanation and revision of the Law project dossier; Proactively report and explain the content of the Grassroots Mediation Law project file (amended) to the National Assembly Standing Committee, the National Assembly and National Assembly agencies according to regulations. The draft Law on Grassroots Conciliation (amended) is structured with 05 chapters, 35 articles (an increase of 02 articles compared to the Law on Grassroots Conciliation in 2013). Regarding basic content, the draft Law amends and supplements a number of principles on the organization and activities of grassroots conciliation to ensure compliance and consistency with current legal regulations and meet new requirements and contexts. At the same time, it is amended in the direction of regulating funding for activities. Grassroots mediation is guaranteed by the state budget instead of supported as before to meet practical requirements; Adds the standard of conciliators to Not being disciplined or prosecuted for criminal liability to ensure strictness. The Draft Law also amends and supplements the election of conciliators that can be carried out in each residential cluster, village, and residential group. Amend the results of conciliator election to match the current practice of arranging villages and residential groups. In particular, appointing conciliators is a completely new regulation. Accordingly, the appointment of a conciliator is carried out in cases where the election of a conciliator has been held but the set goals have not been achieved or the conciliator election cannot be held due to force majeure events. In addition, the draft Law adds a number of rights of conciliators to create conditions for conciliators to best complete conciliation activities; clearly stipulate the scope of participation, forms of participation, rights and obligations of people invited to participate in grassroots conciliation; Supplement the rights and obligations of the parties to be consistent with reality. Add regulations on the application of information technology and digital transformation in grassroots conciliation work such as electing a conciliator, electing a conciliation team leader and conciliation can be done online; Commune-level Peoples Committees are responsible for implementing the application of information technology and digital transformation in accordance with practical conditions. The Draft Law also amends regulations on state management of conciliation at the grassroots level. Regulates the responsibilities of the Provincial Peoples Committee and the Commune Peoples Committee in accordance with the current policy of decentralization and decentralization. The draft Law, after being received and revised, has 5 chapters and 35 articles, with no change in the total number of articles compared to the draft Law submitted to the National Assembly. In which: receiving and revising 21 articles; Add 1 article on information security in grassroots conciliation (Article 5); Reduce one article regulating the responsibilities of Peoples Committees at all levels (Article 32) and partially integrate the content in this article into the regulations on State management responsibilities for grassroots conciliation (Article 31). 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