Chapter II
TASKS AND POWERS OF MINISTRIES
Article 4. With regard to legal affairs
1. To submit to the Government draft laws and draft resolutions of the National Assembly, draft ordinances and draft resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee; draft decrees of the Government under approved annual legislative programs and plans of the Government and resolutions, projects and schemes under the assignment of the Government or the Prime Minister.
2. To submit to the Prime Minister draft decisions, directives and other documents as assigned.
3. To issue circulars, decisions, directives and other documents on state management of their branches or sectors; to guide and inspect the implementation of these documents.
4. To direct and organize law propagation, dissemination and education activities under the ministries' state management.
5. To examine legal documents promulgated by ministries, People's Councils and People's Committees of provinces or centrally run cities which are related to the branches or sectors under the ministries' state management; if detecting that regulations promulgated by those agencies show signs of contravening legal documents concerning the branches or sectors under the ministries' management, to handle them according to law.
Article 5. With regard to strategies, master plans and plans
1. To submit to the Government long-term, five-year and annual development strategies, master plans and plans and important national projects and works in their branches or sectors; to publicize approved strategies, master plans and plans (excluding state-secret contents) and organize and direct the implementation thereof.
2. To appraise the contents of pre-feasibility study and feasibility study reports on programs, projects and schemes in their branches or sectors; to approve and decide on investment projects falling under the ministries' jurisdiction according to law.
Article 6. With regard to international cooperation
1. To submit to the Government for decision policies and measures to promote and expand relations with foreign countries and international organizations; signing, ratification, approval of or accession to, and measures to ensure the implementation of treaties in the name of the State or the Government regarding the branches or sectors under the ministries' state management.
2. To negotiate and conclude treaties under authorization by competent state agencies and organize the implementation of plans on international cooperation and treaties to which Vietnam is a contracting party within the state management of the branches or sectors.
3. To accede to international organizations as assigned by the Government; to conclude, and organize the implementation of, international agreements in the name of the ministries according to law; to organize international cooperation in order to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the ministries' activities.
Article 7. With regard to administrative reform
1. To submit to the Government for decision the decentralization of tasks of state management of their branches or sectors to local administrations.
2. To decide on, and organize the implementation of, administrative reform plans, publicize administrative procedures in their branches or sectors; to decide on decentralization of responsibilities and powers to their attached agencies and units according to competence.
3. To reform the organizational apparatus of each ministry to be more streamlined and rational and have fewer focal points fully embracing the functions, tasks and powers of each ministry as assigned by the Government.
4. To renew working styles, modernize offices, introduce office culture and apply scientific research outcomes and technologies to the ministries' activities.
Article 8. With regard to the state management of public services in the branches or sectors
1. To submit to the Government for promulgation mechanisms and policies on the provision of public services and on the socialization of public services in the branches or sectors.
2. To submit to the Prime Minister master plans on networks of non-business public service units.
3. To guide the implementation of policies and laws and support providers of public services in the branches or sectors according to law.
Article 9. With regard to enterprises, cooperatives and other collective or private economic establishments
1. To submit to the Government for promulgation mechanisms and policies to encourage, support and orient the development of enterprises and cooperatives and other collective or private economic establishments in all economic sectors in the branches or sectors.
2. To guide and examine the implementation of regulations on conditional businesses and services on the Government-promulgated list and handle violations according to their competence.
3. To exercise the rights and perform the obligations of state owners as assigned and decentralized by the Government toward state-owned single-member limited liability companies and state capital portions invested in other enterprises which are organized and operate under the Law on Enterprises.
Article 10. With regard to associations and non-governmental organizations
1. To recognize the canvass boards for establishment of associations or nongovernmental organizations; to give written opinions to competent state agencies regarding the permission to set up, separate, split, merge, consolidate, dissolve, rename and approve the charters of associations or non-governmental organizations.
2. To guide and create conditions for associations and non-governmental organizations to participate in activities within the branches or sectors under the ministries' state management.
3. To examine and inspect the implementation of legal provisions on associations and non-governmental organizations operating in the branches or sectors under the ministries' state management; to handle or propose competent state agencies to handle violations of associations or non governmental organizations according to law.
Article 11. With regard to organizational apparatus, civil servant payrolls and public employee numbers
1. To submit to the Government for decision the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of their ministries; the establishment, re-organization and dissolution of general departments and equivalent bodies under the ministries; and autonomy and accountability mechanisms applicable to non-business public units in the branches or sectors.
2. To submit to the Prime Minister for decision the establishment, re-organization and dissolution of departments, bureaus and equivalent bodies, non-business public units which fall under the deciding competence of the Prime Minister; and the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of general departments or equivalent bodies under the ministries.
3. To decide on the establishment, reorganization and dissolution of other nonbusiness public units which do not fall under the jurisdiction of the Government or the Prime Minister according to law.
4. To decide on the establishment of sections under departments, ministries' inspectorates, ministries' offices, and sections under bureaus in accordance with the government decrees defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of ministries.
5. To define the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of departments, bureaus, inspectorates, offices and non-business public units of the ministries according to law.
6. To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs in, promulgating joint circulars generally guiding the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of professional agencies of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities and People's Committees of districts, towns and provincial cities.
7. To draw up lists of working positions and rank-based structures of civil servants and professional title-based structures of public employees for determining annual civil servant payroll plans of the ministries and the numbers of public employees working in non-business public units of the ministries and send them to the Ministry of Home Affairs according to law.
8. To decide on the assignment of civil servant payrolls to organizations of the ministries; to manage civil servant payrolls of organizations and units of the ministries; to manage working positions and numbers of civil servants and public employees in non-business public units of the ministries according to law.
Article 12. With regard to cadres, civil servants and public employees
1. To submit to the Prime Minister the appointment, relief from duty or dismissal of deputy ministers.
2. To decide on the appointment, relief from duty or dismissal of heads or deputy heads of organizations and units within the organizational structures of the ministries, including general departments or equivalent organizations, bureaus, departments, inspectorates, offices and non-business public units and sections of departments of the ministries and the ministries' inspectorates and offices.
Heads of general departments or equivalent organizations, bureaus, departments and nonbusiness public units of the ministries may decide on the appointment, relief from duty or dismissal of holders of leading and managerial titles of units under their management.
The appointment, relief from duty and dismissal of holders of the above leading or managerial titles of the ministries comply with law as well as Party regulations.
3. To manage cadres, civil servants and public employees of the ministries according to law. To take specific measures to enhance administrative discipline among cadres, civil servants and public employees of the ministries; to practice thrift, combat wastefulness and prevent and combat corruption, red tape and authoritarianism in organizations and units of the ministries.
4. To formulate, and organize the implementation of, plans on training and retraining of cadres, civil servants and public employees, and the recruitment, employment, transfer, rotation, retirement, wage, commendation, discipline and other regimes applicable to cadres, civil servants and public employees of the ministries according to law.
5. To develop professional standards of civil servant ranks in the branches or sectors for promulgation by the Ministry of Home Affairs; to promulgate criteria for professional titles and structures of public employees in the branches or sectors and criteria for leading and managerial titles of professional agencies of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities according to law.
Article 13. With regard to examination and inspection
1. To guide, examine and inspect the implementation of policies and laws on the branches or sectors under the ministries' state management.
2. To examine and inspect the ministries, government-attached agencies and People's Committees of all levels in the performance of their tasks in the branches or sectors under the ministries' state management.
3. To settle complaints, denunciations and petitions of organizations and citizens which are related to the branches or sectors under the ministries' state management; to hold citizen receptions according to law.
Article 14. With regard to financial and property management
1. To elaborate annual budget estimates and distribute, manage and finalize annual budgets of their ministries; to examine the implementation of the budgets of the branches or sectors under their management according to the Law on State Budget.
2. To coordinate with related agencies in elaborating regimes, standards and norms of budget expenditure of the branches or sectors.
3. To manage and take responsibility for state properties assigned to the ministries according to law.
Tìm kiếm
Nghị định 36/2012/NĐ-CP quy định chức năng, nhiệm vụ, quyền hạn và cơ cấu tổ chức của Bộ, cơ quan ngang Bộ (Bản Word)