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The Construction Law (amended) focuses on regulations for construction activities and management according to regulations and standards; ensuring the spirit of strongly shifting from pre-inspection to post-inspection associated with strengthening inspection and supervision. Minister of Construction Tran Hong Minh presented the inspection report of the Construction Law project (amended). Overcoming limitations and inadequacies in construction investment work. On the morning of November 4, the National Assembly heard Minister of Construction Tran Hong Minh report on the inspection of the Construction Law project (amended). Minister of Construction Tran Hong Minh emphasized that the 2014 Construction Law was approved by the XIII National Assembly at the 7th session on June 18, 2014, effective from January 1, 2015. After 10 years of implementation, in addition to the achieved results, the Construction Law has also revealed a number of limitations and inadequacies, requiring amendments to meet practical requirements.RELATED NEWSIn the process of developing the Law project, the Government has directed the Ministry of Construction to fully and properly implement the provisions of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents No. 64/2025/QH15 (amended and supplemented by the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Ban promulgating legal document No. 87/2025/QH15), fully absorbing opinions and appraisal opinions of relevant agencies and units. Minister of Construction Tran Hong Minh said that the development of the Construction Law (amended) aims to continue to institutionalize the Party and States guidelines and policies on perfecting the law on a socialist-oriented market economy in the direction of building a favorable, open, transparent, safe, and cost-effective legal environment. tuan thu thap; continue to improve the investment and business environment, simplify administrative procedures in construction investment activities, create favorable, transparent and equal conditions for people and businesses; overcome limitations and inadequacies in construction investment practices; ensuring the synchronization and unity of the legal system. Implementing the spirit of innovation in law-making thinking, the draft Law on Construction (amended) only stipulates principled framework issues and contents under the authority of the National Assembly, so the draft Law on Construction (amended) has been arranged and re-arranged to include 8 Chapters and 97 Articles (reducing 71 articles compared to the current law). The revised contents focus on groups of issues: Innovating methods and improve the efficiency of construction investment management; Reducing and simplifying administrative procedures and business investment conditions; Clearly define state management responsibilities and responsibilities of subjects participating in construction activities. Strongly shift to post-inspection associated with inspection and supervision. Examining the draft law, Chairman of the Committee for Science, Technology and Environment (STI) Nguyen Thanh Hai affirmed that the Committee basically agrees with the scope of regulation of the draft Law. To ensure there is no overlap with relevant Laws, the Committee recommends reviewing provisions, ensuring the Law only focuses on regulations for construction and management activities according to standards and regulations; Ensuring the spirit of strongly shifting from pre-inspection to post-inspection associated with strengthening inspection and supervision and distinguishing the application of the law to two types of projects: investment projects from the state budget and investment projects with private capital. Regarding incentive policies in construction investment activities (Article 11): The Committee for Science, Technology and Environment found that the scope of investment support and encouragement is still wide, easily overlaps with other laws and the criteria and conditions for encouragement authority are unclear. Therefore, according to the inspection agency, it is necessary to research and expand construction investment incentive policies applicable to ethnic minority areas and disadvantaged areas in general, not just limited to especially difficult areas; Integrate culture and 54 ethnic groups in construction development policies and activities. Regarding environmental protection requirements in construction activities specified in Articles 5, 7, 11, 18... only state some very general principles and do not stipulate policies and specific requirements, while construction is a major emission field. Therefore, the Committee proposed to study and supplement international cooperation in construction investment activities (Article 12): The Committee proposed to supplement and clearly stipulate forms of international cooperation (research, technology transfer, consulting, construction, supervision, training...) and principles of ensuring security, sovereignty, and compliance with Vietnamese law, for construction investment activities with foreign elements, especially when there are elements of technology transfer or the use of labor, foreign supplies and equipment. Regarding project formulation and appraisal and construction investment decisions (from Article 23 to Article 28): The Committee for Science, Technology and Environment believes that the new draft Law only regulates appraisal for public investment projects, PPP projects, and business investment projects, but does not clarify the appraisal authority for the group of other construction investment projects such as ODA capital, preferential loans... that need to be supplemented to avoid legal gaps in implementation. In addition, stipulating that specialized agencies only control safety, fire prevention, and technical regulations, while other contents are responsible for the investor, is in line with the policy of strengthening post-inspection. However, it is necessary to clearly stipulate so
