Chinese Lawmakers to Consider 9 Laws in New SessionChina's top legislature, the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress (NPC), is to hold its 16th session on July 3 to deliberate nine draft laws.Items on the legislative agenda were decided at a meeting Wednesday of chairman and vice-chairmen of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over by the chairman, Li Peng. Lawmakers tabled the draft amendments to the laws on product quality, customs, and patent rights, as well as the draft law on farm seeds and the trust law draft. Each has been reviewed in previous legislative sessions. Draft amendments to the law on the fishery industry, amendments to the judges law and amendments to the procurators law, and the draft law on the nationwide written and spoken language will be submitted to the legislators for a first hearing. A treaty on extradition between China and Uzbekistan and a consular treaty with Australia will also be presented to the legislators for deliberation and ratification, along with separate criminal assistance treaties with Colombia and Tunisia. The lawmakers will also deliberate a State Council report to examine and approve final accounting of central revenue and expenditure in 1999, and a State Council report of the implementation of the central budget. A group under the NPC Standing Committee to examine law enforcement will also deliver a report on a recent review of the law on township enterprises. |
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