Renovation on operations of Ethnic Council and Committees of National Assembly (will be called NA Committees hereafter) is a necessary reform.  Over the past years, numerous solutions have been realized in order to strengthen operation capacities and role of the NA Committees.  In addition, NA Committees and their members should be provided with necessary and useful information and researches on new practices for consideration of suitable application in the context of Vietnam. Among all the researches, the research on possibility of application of committee hearings is one of the new practices which has been often discussed in the past recent years.

In this context, the Project “Strengthening the capacity of representative bodies in Viet Nam (Phase 3)” decided to compile this research report to study on Parliamentary Committee Public Hearings in some countries in the world.  The research report also looks into legal regulations and the practical operations of NA Committees in Vietnam; and analyses the need and possibility of committee hearings application in the NA of Vietnam as well as propose initial application recommendations.