The National Council for Scientific and Technological Policies is an advisory agency assisting the Prime Minister on important issues regarding scientific and technological development.

The Council is tasked to give comments to the Prime Minister before making decisions on:

- Orientations and strategies on scientific and technological development, the scientific and technological fields to be given priority in each period.

- Great policies to boost scientific and technological development.

- Draft legal documents on science and technology.

- Major norms of five-year and annual scientific and technological plans.

- The State-level scientific and technological programs.

- Scientific and technological issues related to great socio-economic projects.

- Other important scientific and technological issues as requested by the Prime Minister.

- Scientific and technological issues which the Council deems it necessary to propose to the Prime Minister.- (Summary)