Ms. Le Thi Thanh Hau (Khanh Hoa) reflected that Clause 3, Article 16 of Decree No. 150/2025/ND-CP stipulates that the Department of Culture and Social Affairs advises the People's Committee at the commune level to perform the state management function of state documents and archives. According to Clause 4, Article 4 of Circular No. 10/2025/TT-BNV dated June 19, 2025, Article 57 of the 2024 Law on Archives, the Department of Culture and Society advises the Commune People's Committee on state management of document and archive work such as: developing, promulgating, guiding, organizing the implementation of strategies, plans and policies for developing archives of legal documents on archiving standards, technical regulations, technical requirements, economic - technical norms, product quality, services in archiving activities...

Ms. Hau asked, after the merger, the Department of Culture and Society receives documents handed over by the old communes and advises the Commune People's Committee to open the seal, confirm the documents after handover, advise the Commune People's Committee to hand over the determined volume of documents to the Office of the People's Council and the Commune People's Committee for management, is that in accordance with regulations?

Regarding this issue, the Ministry of Home Affairs responded as follows:

The Department of Culture and Society has the function of advising and assisting the People's Committee at the commune level in performing the function of state management of documents and archives; it does not have the function of managing archival documents under the management authority of the People's Committee at the commune level.

Each specialized department organizes its own current archives, not concentrating documents in the archives of the People's Committee at the commune level as before.

The management of documents remaining before June 30, 2025 is decided by the Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level according to the provisions of Clause 1 and Clause 2, Article 59 of the Law on Archives 2024.