Beijing, 25 Dec (Xinhua) -- The draft amendment to the Supervision Law of the Standing Committees of People's Congresses at all levels was submitted to the Seventh Session of the Standing Committee of the 14 th National People's Congress [NPC] for deliberation on 25 December. The draft further clarifies the guiding ideology, principles, and concepts of people's congress supervision, improves the supervision system, mechanism, and methods and methods, enhances the pertinence and effectiveness of supervision, and gives better play to the supervisory role of people's congresses.
It is understood that the current Supervision Law was adopted at the 23rd Session of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress in August 2006. The promulgation and implementation of the Supervision Law is of great significance to the people's congress standing committees at all levels in exercising their supervisory functions and powers in accordance with the law, perfecting the supervisory mechanism, enhancing the effectiveness of supervision, and giving play to the characteristics and advantages of the people's congress system. The draft amendment conscientiously sums up the practical experience of the people's congresses in supervision work since the implementation of the Supervision Law, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, adapts to the new situation and new requirements, and makes amendments and improvements.
The draft amendment improves the guiding ideology, important principles, and core concepts of people's congress supervision. It is clarified that the Standing Committee shall supervise the work of the "government, committee, and procuratorate" and implement the principles of correct, effective, and lawful supervisionIt also adds provisions: People's governments at all levels, supervision commissions, people's courts, and people's procuratorates shall strictly exercise their powers, perform their duties, and carry out their work in accordance with law, and accept the supervision of the standing committee of the people's congress at the corresponding level.
The draft amendment improves the working mechanism for law enforcement inspections of people's congresses, stipulating that the standing committees of higher-level people's congresses may, as needed, organize lower-level people's congress standing committees to jointly carry out law enforcement inspections;The standing committees of relevant local people's congresses may, in accordance with the needs of coordinated regional development, coordinate in carrying out law enforcement inspections.
In terms of improving the NPC filing and review system, the draft amendment summarizes the practical experience of recent years, supplements and improves the relevant provisions, includes the "State Supervision Commission" in the scope of state organs that may submit requests for review of judicial interpretations, and adds a provision that the relevant special committees and working bodies of the NPC Standing Committee may take the initiative to review or conduct special reviews of interpretations of specific application laws submitted for filing.