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The draft Law on Grassroots Mediation (amended) is designed to encourage the application of information technology and digital transformation in accordance with the actual conditions of each locality and the voluntary nature of mediation activities. Download Deputy Director of the Department of Legal Dissemination, Education and Legal Aid (Ministry of Justice) Ngo Quynh Hoa presented at the meeting. Photo: Ministry of Justice This is one of the contents that received high consensus at the meeting on receiving, revising, and completing the draft Law between the Standing Committee of the Culture and Society Committee and the Standing Committee drafting the Law on Grassroots Mediation (amended) that took place on the afternoon of July 22. At the meeting, Deputy Director of the Department of Dissemination, Legal Education and Legal Aid (Ministry of Justice) Ngo Quynh Hoa said that the draft Law continues to inherit the scope of regulation of the Law. Grassroots conciliation in 2013, at the same time clearly stipulates conciliation activities in the fields of courts, arbitration, commerce, labor, commune-level Peoples Committees and conciliation activities regulated by other laws that are not within the scope of the Law. The addition of this content is to ensure ease of understanding and application (the Governments draft Law in Report No. 364/TTr-CP provides a general overview: This Law does not apply to conciliation activities that have been approved). Other legal documents stipulate). Regarding the principles of organization and activities of conciliation at the grassroots level (Clause 8 and Clause 9, Article 4), the draft Law has been revised in the direction of: removing the principle that conciliation at the grassroots level does not replace measures to handle administrative violations or criminal penalties, to ensure consistency in the draft Law. Download Meeting View. Photo: Ministry of Justice Regarding funding for grassroots conciliation work (Clause 1, Article 6), the draft Law is revised in the direction of inheriting the provisions of the 2013 Law on Grassroots Conciliation, which is that the Central budget supports localities that cannot balance their budgets to carry out grassroots conciliation work according to the provisions of law. This regulation is intended to ensure that localities that have not yet been able to balance their own budgets for grassroots conciliation work are provided with funding to support this work. Regarding digital transformation in grassroots conciliation activities, the draft Law has designed regulations in the direction of predicting and encouraging the application of information technology and digital transformation in grassroots conciliation work to suit the actual conditions of each locality, peoples ability to access and apply technology and the nature of autonomy. through discussion, the Standing Committee of the Culture and Society Committee basically agreed with the Standing Committee of the Law Drafting Committee on the contents to be absorbed, revised, and completed in the draft Law. Comments highly appreciated the drafting agency for closely following the progress of preparing the Law project; listen and absorb many valid opinions from grassroots practice. The Ministry of Justice appraises the project Law on Grassroots Mediation (amended) Online mediation: New point in the draft Law on Grassroots Mediation Amending the Law on Grassroots Mediation to suit the 2-level local government model Giving comments on the content of explanation on digital transformation in grassroots mediation activities, Chairman of the Culture and Social Committee Nguyen Dac Vinh emphasized, in the context of both The system is implementing Resolution 57-NQ/TW of the Politburo, the content on digital transformation in grassroots conciliation work should be understood as a component of the overall digital transformation system at the commune level to support conciliation activities more conveniently, without the need to design a separate system. The Chairman of the Culture and Society Committee agreed with the drafting agency on the direction of regulations on digital transformation in conciliation activities at the grassroots level. The Chairman of the Culture and Society Committee also said that issues such as online conciliation or conciliator election combined with other forms of election (such as combining public voting or secret voting; distributing opinion cards; online voting...) need to have a clear legal basis established to avoid legal disputes arising over the issue. later.Dieu Anh
