Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 25th: Improving the legislative mechanism and system, regulating wild animal exhibitions... The spokesperson of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress introduced the relevant laws and legislative work of the upcoming Standing Committee meeting
Xinhua News Agency reporter Bai Yang
The 38th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress will be held in Beijing from December 27 to 30.
Zang Tiewei, spokesperson of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, introduced to reporters on the 25th the legal bills and legislative work that will be considered at the Standing Committee meeting.
Six bills, including the draft amendment to the Legislative Law and the draft amendment to the Wildlife Protection Law, will be submitted to this Standing Committee meeting for further deliberation.
Amending the Legislative Law to increase the content of adhering to scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and law-based legislation
The second draft of the amendment draft of the Legislative Law will be submitted to this Standing Committee meeting for deliberation.
Zang Tiewei said that according to the opinions of all parties, the second review draft of the revised draft will improve the guiding ideology of the legislation and add the content of "comprehensively building a modern socialist country on the track of the rule of law".
Increase the content of the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee to "adhere to scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and law-based legislation".
Added the requirement that the working body of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress strengthen legislation and publicity work, release legislation information through various channels and forms, introduce the situation, and respond to concerns.
Enrich and improve the scope of legislative matters in cities divided into districts, and increase the provisions for cities divided into districts to formulate local regulations and local government regulations on "social governance at the grassroots level".
The revision also ensures that issues of constitutionality and legitimacy are resolved in a timely manner during the process of law drafting and review by improving relevant systems and norms.
For example, it is clarified that the description of the draft law should include relevant opinions on constitutional issues; it is clarified that after the Constitution and Law Committee conducts a unified review of the bill, the constitutional issues involved should be explained in the report or the review result report.
Revised Wildlife Protection Law to Regulate Wildlife Displays and Performances
Zang Tiewei introduced that the third review draft of the revision draft of the Wildlife Protection Law submitted to this Standing Committee meeting for deliberation has absorbed and adopted many specific revision opinions put forward by the public and grassroots legislative contact points.
It is reported that a number of people have suggested through the NPC public opinion system to strengthen the standardized management of the use of wild animals for public exhibitions and performances.
After comprehensively studying the opinions of all parties, the third review draft of the revised draft adds a regulation: the use of wild animals for public exhibitions and performances should take safety management measures and ensure the health of wild animals. The specific management measures will be formulated by the wildlife protection department of the State Council in conjunction with relevant departments of the State Council .
As the grassroots legislative contact point of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Jianghai District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province proposed to increase the disclosure of wildlife protection management information and encourage social participation; the Hongqiao Sub-district Office of Changning District, Shanghai proposed to further regulate wild animals Suggestions for release activities.
The above suggestions are reflected in the third draft of the revised draft.
This year, my country's legislative work is making progress steadily and in an orderly manner
Zang Tiewei said that under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and with the strong support of all parties, my country's legislative work this year has made steady progress and is methodical, showing the characteristics of many tasks, heavy weight, high requirements, and tight schedule.
So far this year, the NPC and its Standing Committee have enacted 6 laws, amended 9 laws, passed 7 decisions on legal issues and major issues, and are currently deliberating 18 legal cases.
It is reported that the 2023 legislative work plan revolves around adhering to and improving the people's congress system, building a high-level socialist market economic system, implementing the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, promoting the construction of a socialist cultural power, ensuring and improving people's livelihood, promoting green development, and improving the social governance system. , Improve the national security legal system, etc., and pre-arranged 37 legal bills for continued review and initial review.
"According to the spirit of the relevant meeting of the Party Central Committee and the decision-making arrangements and the opinions and suggestions put forward by relevant parties, we will further revise and improve the 2023 legislative work plan, and make it public to the public in due course after the first session of the 14th National People's Congress." Zang Tiewei said .
The filing and review work has been carried out in an all-round way and solidly advanced
The filing and review of normative documents is an important constitutional system to guarantee the implementation and supervision of the Constitution.
Zang Tiewei said that through continuous efforts and strong promotion, the filing and review work has been carried out in an all-round way and solidly advanced, and has gradually become explicit, institutionalized and normalized.
It is reported that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has intensified its review efforts, and actively promoted "everything must be reviewed" by means of ex officio review, application review, centralized cleanup, special review, and transfer review; The principle of "correction" is to supervise and urge the formulation agency to correct errors and corrections for normative documents that conflict or are inconsistent with the upper law; improve the system of hearing and deliberating the report on the filing and review work, standardize the filing and review procedures and work processes; establish a filing and review information platform and The database of national laws and regulations, and the establishment of a case guidance system for record review.
"Since the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress performed its duties, the number of review suggestions received from citizens and organizations on normative documents such as regulations and judicial interpretations has increased significantly compared with the past, which reflects the public's concern for the construction of the country's rule of law and the maintenance of the rule of law. The legitimate rights and interests of citizens are concerned." Zang Tiewei said that practice has shown that earnestly receiving, researching, and processing the review suggestions put forward by citizens and organizations and giving timely feedback have become an important manifestation of people's democracy in the whole process of filing review work.