On December 9, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chaired a meeting with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) and relevant ministries and branches on the project to merge the two ministries.
At the meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister requested the leaders of the two ministries to clarify specific and specialized areas of state management and overlapping areas that need to be rearranged and integrated.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan and Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Do Duc Duy reported on the plan to merge and rearrange affiliated units between the two ministries.
Accordingly, each ministry's specialized and specialized departments and divisions will be streamlined to the maximum extent; areas with overlapping management functions and tasks will be integrated and supplemented with functions and tasks to ensure unified and smooth management, without any gaps.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will merge their respective advisory and synthesis units; review and streamline public service units.
The Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that the arrangement, streamlining and consolidation of the two ministries is an extremely important political task, and innovation cannot be delayed any longer, in order to reduce the number of specialized State management agencies, according to the principle "1 job cannot be assigned to 2 people".
The project to merge the apparatus and organization of the two ministries must be based on political and legal grounds, stemming from practical requirements; ensuring inheritance, stability, and development; and based on a comprehensive, multi-sectoral, multi-field management mindset.
The process of unification needs to promote the spirit of science, collectivity, democracy, and objectivity, "not unification in a mechanical way".
The Deputy Prime Minister assigned the leaders of the two Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to immediately establish a working group with the participation of relevant ministries and branches to complete on time the summary report of Resolution No. 18/NQ-TW on continuing to innovate and streamline the organization and apparatus of the political system to be streamlined and operate effectively and efficiently.
Complete the summary report of Resolution No. 19/NQ-TW on continuing to innovate the organization and management system, improving the quality and efficiency of public service units, clarifying the political and legal basis, shortcomings, weaknesses, international lessons and solutions.
At the same time, complete the project to merge the two ministries; the project to establish the Party Committee of the merged ministry directly under the Government Party Committee; and the plan to use facilities and infrastructure after the merger.
The Deputy Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to urgently review all legal documents, clarify problems related to the application of legal regulations under the scope of State management, propose appropriate solutions, ensure stability, inheritance, connectivity, and leave no gaps in State management during the consolidation process.
The Ministry of Home Affairs coordinates to guide the criteria for rearranging cadres, civil servants and public employees after the merger, ensuring objectivity, democracy and science.
The Deputy Prime Minister also gave his opinion on the direction of arranging and merging some important specialized State management areas of the two Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development and Natural Resources and Environment.
