Law project on citizen identity to facilitate building of digital government and digital society

Chairman of the National Assembly's (NA) Committee for National Defense and Security Lieutenant General Le Tan Toi chaired a meeting to review the identity law project, on the afternoon of April 11. Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung, on behalf of the leadership of the Ministry of Public Secuirty, attended the meeting.

Standing member Major General Nguyen Thi Xuan of the NA Committee for National Defense and Security delivered a report on the varification of the law project, stating that the implementation of the law project was carefully drafted in accordance with regulations and the provisions were drafted meticulously, in detail and with high quality.

The report concluded that the law project has enough conditions to be submitted to the Standing Committee of the National Assembly and the National Assembly for consideration during the law-making program in 2023.

At the meeting, the delegates agreed that it was necessary to develop such a law, but still proposed to clarify a number of provisions.

Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung said that the Ministry of Public Security believes that it is necessary to accelerate the process of revising the Law on Citizen Identity to avoid overlaping with the current legal documents in force because these legal documents have undergone fundamental changes. 

The law contributes to facilitating national digital transformation, reforming administrative procedures in cyberspace, and speeding up the realization of Project 06 of the Government. 

Therefore, the Ministry of Public Security proposed the Government and received the approval to implement the law project.