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Firms hesitate to ask for legal reforms
Domestic enterprises are reluctant to make suggestions to improve laws which directly cover their businesses, a seminar was told yesterday.
Tran Huu Huynh, head of Legal Department under the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said mostly small and medium-sized enterprises were yet to give sufficient attention to making suggestions on how to improve business-related laws.
Business associations with internal difficulties, such as insignificant influence or limited financial and staff resources, also found it hard to add their voices to writing law, Huynh said.
Lack of co-operation between law makers, business associations and enterprises was also blamed for the low rate of suggestions, he said.
Businesses hesitated to make suggestions when they thought they did not have a powerful voice, said the Banking-Securities-Investment Law Co chairman Truong Thanh Duc.
Lawyer Vu Xuan Tien said it was necessary to encourage businesses to contribute to the writing of legal documents as they would be directly or indirectly affected when documents were issued.
Their contributions to the legal documents would help improve draft laws which might create problems for enterprises, Tien said.
Huynh urged businesses to make submissions and also called on their associations to regularly check for difficulties with business-related laws so they could readily suggest ways to amend them to better facilitate business.
The chamber would continue to perfect its on-line forum at www.vibonline.com.vn, where enterprises can read laws and draft laws, find issues relating to international economic integration or offer opinions on legal drafts, Huynh said.
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