Joint circular No. 03/2000/TTLT-BTP-BVHTT-BTTUBTWMTTQVN of March 31, 2000 guiding the compilation and implementation of rural conventions and rules of villages, hamlets and population clusters

• Số hiệu: 03/2000/TTLT-BTP-BVHTT-BTTUBTWMTTQVN
• Loại văn bản: Thông tư liên tịch
• Nơi ban hành: Bộ Tư pháp, Bộ Văn hoá-Thông tin, Uỷ ban Trung ương Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam
• Người ký: Nguyễn Đình Lộc, Nguyễn Khoa Điềm, Trần Văn Đăng
• Ngày ban hành: 31/03/2000

THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND INFORMATION THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE VIETNAM FATHERLAND FRONT -------	SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom Happiness --------------
No. 03/2000/TTLT/BTP-BVHTT-BTTUBTWMTTQVN	Hanoi, March 31, 2000

JOINT CIRCULAR

GUIDING THE COMPILATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RURAL CONVENTIONS AND RULES OF VILLAGES, HAMLETS AND POPULATION CLUSTERS

On November 5, 1998, the Government promulgated Decree No.29/1998/ND-CP on the issuance of the Regulations on the Exercise of Democracy in Communes. On June 19, 1998, the Prime Minister issued Directive No.24/1998/CT-TTg on the compilation and implementation of rural conventions and rules of villages, hamlets and population clusters. The implementation of the above-said Decree and Directive, the compilation and implementation of rural conventions and rules (hereafter collectively called rural conventions) at the grassroots has been rectified by one step compared with the past. Most of the new rural conventions have a content suited to the current provisions of law, helping to develop the fine customs and habits, highlighting the ethical norms and traditional virtues of the nation and actively helping the management of the State by law at the grassroots. With the close and timely guidance by competent agencies in the localities, the drafting and carrying out of rural conventions has become an act of self-management of the population community in varied and lively forms.

However, in spite of very important initial results after more than a year of implementation of Decree No.29/1998/ND-CP and Directive No. 24/1998/CT-TTg, in a number of localities the compilation and implementation of the rural conventions still show many limitations and shortcomings; the guidance, activation and supervision are not yet homogenous or unified; the contents of a number of rural conventions lack in concretization, a number of rules violate the law; the compilation and adoption of rural conventions are not yet really democratic, and the ratification of the conventions is not done by the right competence and there is still no unity in the modalities and procedures.

To overcome these limitations and shortcomings, and to continue stepping up the compilation and implementation of rural conventions at the grassroots, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Culture and Information and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front jointly give the following guidance for a number of questions in the compilation and implementation of the rural conventions:

I. ON THE CONTENTS AND FORMS OF EXPRESSION OF THE RURAL CONVENTIONS

1. Contents of the rural conventions:

The rural convention is a document of social norms defining the rules of common behavior set out in common agreement by a community of the population to regulate the social relations of a self-management character of the people aimed at preserving and developing the fine customs and habits and the cultural traditions in a village, hamlet or a population cluster, contributing to actively aiding the management of the State by law.

On the basis of the provisions of law, the socio-economic conditions, the cultural level of the population, in order to bring into play the fine customs and habits and contribute to introducing law into the life of the population community, the contents of the rural conventions should center on the following concrete questions:

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