THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No: 13/2003/QD-TTg
Hanoi , January 17, 2003
 DECISION
APPROVING THE 2003-2007 PROGRAM ON LAW DISSEMINATION AND EDUCATION
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
At the proposal of the Justice Minister,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the 2003-2007 Program on Law Dissemination and Education.
Article 2.- This Decision takes implementation effect 15 days after its publication on the Official Gazette.
The Justice Ministry shall have to guide the implementation of this Decision.
Article 3.- The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the Government, and the presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to implement this Decision.
 
PRIME MINISTER




Phan Van Khai
 
THE 2003-2007 PROGRAM ON LAW DISSEMINATION AND EDUCATION
(Issued together with the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 13/2003/QD-TTg of January 17, 2003)
A. OBJECTIVES AND REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW DISSEMINATION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM
I. OBJECTIVES:
1. To disseminate in time and fully the contents of legislation related to the life of people of various strata, creating conditions for citizens to use laws as a means and tool to protect the legitimate rights and interests of their own, of the State and the society. To raise the officials’ and people’s sense of conscious and active inquiry into, and observance of, laws.
2. To create new steps of development in the work of law dissemination and education in order to more actively satisfy the demand for law understanding, to raise the legal knowledge level among officials and people, thus contributing to the performance of the task of all-sided development of the Vietnamese, raising the disciplines within the State apparatus and in the society, protecting the national security as well as social order and safety, firmly maintaining the socialist orientation, actively effecting the international economic integration, building a law-governed State of the people, by the people and for the people and serving the cause of national industrialization and modernization.