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Businesses hesitate to offer suggestions to build up laws
A lot of businesses said that they are not enthusiastic for making suggestions to build up laws, even though when the laws directly cover their business.
Tran Huu Huynh, Head of the Legal Department under the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), while calling for the suggestions from businesses to build up business-related laws, admitted that Vietnamese businesses remain indifferent to making suggestions.
Meanwhile, experts said that businesses hesitate to offer suggestions and they have reasons to do so.
Nguyen Van Kich, Deputy Head of the Institute for Legal Science and International Business, said that even with 300,000 businesses nationwide and 300 associations, businesses still do not have the powerful voice in making suggestions regarding law compilation.
Kich said that in other countries, associations send their representatives to parliaments to give them a voice in building up laws.
Kich also said that civil authorities have not helped create the self-confidence for businesses. The hesitancy of businesses could be explained by some factors: a) the limited knowledge of businesses, b) businesses have not got the habit of making suggestions to build up laws, and c) businesses think that compiling legal documents is the job of state management agencies, not theirs.
According to Huynh, there are 300 laws and 10,000 related documents which cover Vietnam’s businesses. Huynh said that if printing all the documents and piling them up, the documents will be two metres in height.
Huynh said that this is one of the reasons which discourage businesses to offer suggestions.
Huy Nam, a finance and securities expert said “No business is patient enough to read all the legal documents and make suggestions to all of them.”
Tran Thien Tu, Chairman of the Association of Enterprises in HCM City Industrial Zone, said that enterprises have been afraid of making suggestions to build up laws, as policies have always ‘going behind the reality.’
Tu said that previously, when there was not a law on the operation of export processing zones and industrial zones, enterprises had to ask to build up the law.
The law has been enacted and the decree, guiding the implementation of the law, has also been promulgated. However, businesses still have to wait for the circular guiding the implementation of the decree. Tu called these ‘the laws which have not been brought into life,’ saying that this makes businesses hesitate to make suggestions to build up laws.
VietNamNet, SGTT
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