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The Standing Committee of Culture and Society agrees with the need to amend and supplement a number of articles of the Publishing Law; believes that the Law project documents are fully prepared according to regulations; The draft Law is consistent with the Constitution, basically ensures unity and synchronization in the legal system, and is compatible with international treaties to which Vietnam is a member. Download Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Lam Thi Phuong Thanh reported at the meeting Improving institutions and modernizing publishing activities At the 4th meeting taking place this morning (July 15), the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the project Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Publishing Law. Reporting at the meeting, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Lam Thi Phuong Thanh emphasized that the amendment and supplementation of the Publishing Law is based on The Partys policies and guidelines on institutional improvement, cultural development, cultural industry, digital transformation and modernization of publishing activities; At the same time, it aims to ensure the unity and synchronization of the legal system after the National Assembly promulgates many new laws, meeting the requirements of implementing international commitments and socio-economic development strategies and programs in the new period. After more than 13 years of implementation, in addition to the advantages and advantages, the 2012 Publishing Law has revealed a number of limitations and inadequacies. The publishing, printing and distribution industry is one of the 10 pillars of the national cultural industry; The goal to 2030, vision to 2045 requires amendments and supplements to the Publishing Law to promote rapid and sustainable development of publishing activities. The draft Law does not amend or supplement the scope of adjustment and change the scope of application of the 2012 Publishing Law; There is no content restricting human rights and civil rights specified in the Constitution in the draft Law. The layout of the draft Law amends and supplements the content of 27/54 articles (ensuring that the amendment and supplementation of content does not exceed 50% of the total number of articles as prescribed in Clause 4, Article 8 of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents), abolishes 3 articles (Article 15, Article 37 and Article 41) and abolishes the phrases renew, renew term in Clause 2, Article 8; At the same time, replace the phrase Ministry of Information and Communications with Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 5 articles of the 2012 Publishing Law. Among the 27 articles amended and supplemented with content, there are 16 articles on administrative procedure reform, decentralization, decentralization and delimitation of authority. Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Lam Thi Phuong Thanh said that the basic content of the draft Law follows the 6 clear principle, in which the content The content of 27 articles of the 2012 Publishing Law amended and supplemented in the draft Law focuses on important content groups, specifically: Completing regulations on management content and state policies for publishing activities (Article 6, Article 7). Completing regulations on preventing copyright infringement, especially acts of copyright infringement in cyberspace, creating motivation for the development of publishing activities (Article 10, Article 40, Article 45).Complete regulations on organization of operations and association of publishers (Article 12, Article 17, Article 23).Complete regulations on publishing and releasing electronic publications, promoting digital transformation (Article 45, Article 50).Agreeing with the need to amend the Law on preliminary examination of the Law project, Chairman of the Culture and Social Committee Nguyen Dac Vinh said, Thuong The Standing Committee agreed with the need to amend the Law. Law project documents are fully prepared according to regulations; The draft Law is consistent with the Constitution, basically ensures unity and synchronization in the legal system, and is compatible with international treaties to which Vietnam is a member. The Standing Committee basically agrees with the scope of regulation and subjects of application of the draft Law. However, there are opinions that the draft Law has added publishing activities in cyberspace; We request the drafting agency to study and clarify this content to avoid expanding the scope of the Law. At the same time, we request the drafting agency to review and continue to more fully institutionalize the Partys new views and policies in Directive No. 04-CT/TW of the Secretariat on Strengthening the Partys leadership over publishing activities in the new situation Basically agree with the policies stipulated in the draft Law; However, the Standing Committee of the Culture and Society Committee requested the agency in charge of drafting the study to add a policy group on developing publishing human resources, especially staff, editors, technology experts, and good administrators in the spirit of Directive No. 04-CT/TW of the Secretariat. Review policies on ordering, bidding, assigning tasks, support, incentives, and incentives to ensure compliance with the characteristics of publishing activities and the consistency of the legal system. The Standing Committee of Culture and Society also finds it necessary to supplement regulations on publishing activities in cyberspace, to more fully cover forms of creation and dissemination of digital content similar to publications, and to more closely manage cross-border products. borders, outside the mainstream publishing system. However, the management of information content and productsn cyberspace is being regulated in many relevant regulations (press, electronic information, electronic transactions, network security, intellectual property,...). Therefore, it is recommended that the drafting agency continue to
