Through a preliminary review, there are up to 184 laws related to the organization of the apparatus and about 200 decrees, not to mention the Prime Minister's decisions, resolutions and decrees of the Government that need to be amended and supplemented to suit the actual situation after the merger and streamlining of the apparatus.
Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh informed at a recent working session of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Justice with the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee.
Minister Nguyen Hai Ninh added that the Ministry of Justice is consulting with the Government and the National Assembly in the National Assembly session next February about laws that must be amended immediately to ensure smooth operation of the apparatus, and some other laws can be postponed.
Amending a large number of laws, decrees, decisions, and resolutions at the same time is a last resort but must be done, and must be done urgently because it is part of the "revolution" to streamline the apparatus.
However, in parallel with amending the law on decrees, decisions and resolutions, on this occasion, ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities... also need to conduct a general review to immediately eliminate, within their authority, administrative procedures that are barriers to production, business activities and people's lives, as directed by the recent Official Dispatch of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
The barriers from administrative procedures for businesses and people currently come from 3 factors: The administrative system has too many procedures that bind people and businesses, and each procedure often has many steps, causing waste of time, effort and costs.
Second, there are too many unnecessary procedures that cause inconvenience, annoyance, and even suffering for people, such as a birth certificate having to go through 5 gates or a dairy cow being managed by 3 ministries… forcing people and businesses to run around, ask here and there to get things done.
Current administrative procedures are not only barriers to businesses and people but also cause resource congestion, increase compliance costs, reduce competitiveness, and make it difficult to achieve socio-economic development goals and tasks.
This time, we must really review and eliminate in the direction of "5 pushes" and with the spirit of "once discussed and agreed, we must implement" - as Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh's recent instructions in many meetings on administrative procedure reform.
Merging and streamlining the apparatus is a real “revolution”. However, if it is not accompanied by the elimination of cumbersome administrative procedures, this revolution will hardly achieve complete and sustainable success!
