This content is stated in Notice No. 01-TB/BCĐTW on the Conclusion of General Secretary, President To Lam, Head of the Central Steering Committee for Institutional Improvement and Law Enforcement (Steering Committee) at the first meeting of the Steering Committee.
The notice clearly states that on June 22, 2026, General Secretary and President To Lam - Head of the Steering Committee - chaired the first meeting of the Steering Committee. After listening to the report of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Justice - the Standing Agency of the Steering Committee (Standing Agency), the opinions of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee, and the delegates attending the Meeting, General Secretary and President To Lam, Head of the Steering Committee concluded as follows:
1. Regarding the basic operating documents of the Steering Committee
The Steering Committee basically agreed with the drafts: Working regulations, Decisions on assigning tasks to members of the Steering Committee, Work Program for 2026 with 5 key task groups, 17 specific tasks. Assign the Standing Agency to fully receive opinions at the Meeting, complete draft documents, submit them for signing and promulgation according to its authority, ensuring strictness, feasibility, clarity of functions, authority, procedures and implementation mechanisms.
The Steering Committee is a strategic guiding institution, with sufficient authority to coordinate, urge, inspect, and supervise to handle major, difficult, inter-sectoral, inter-field issues and institutional bottlenecks that are hindering development or reducing the effectiveness of law enforcement; not to replace or interfere in the regular management and administration activities of agencies, ministries, and sectors.
Each task in the 2026 Work Program must be specified: Clear task, clear person, clear presiding agency, coordinating agency, clear product, progress, accountability. Assigning tasks to members of the Steering Committee must be associated with the final product, specific progress and measurable results. Urgent tasks must be done immediately; long-term tasks must have a roadmap; matters beyond authority must be promptly reported to the Politburo and the Secretariat.
The Steering Committee assigned the Standing Member of the Steering Committee and the Standing Agency to urgently coordinate with relevant agencies to establish a Working Group. The Working Group must be streamlined, professional, and have the capacity to advise on policies, legal affairs, internal affairs, justice, state governance and digital transformation; have the ability to detect problems, propose plans, and monitor implementation results to the end.
The Steering Committee assigned the Party Committee of the Ministry of Justice and the Central Internal Affairs Commission to urgently complete the Coordination Regulations, ensuring close links between building and perfecting institutions, laws, law enforcement and judicial reform; not to let the task of judicial reform be interrupted, not to let law-making lack depth in power control, corruption prevention and control, wastefulness, and negativity.
2. Regarding the Specialized Report on mechanisms, policies, and major solutions to institutionalize policies and orientations on state economic development according to Resolution No. 79-NQ/TW of the Politburo
The Steering Committee basically agreed with the Report of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Finance on mechanisms, policies, and major solutions to institutionalize policies and orientations on state economic development, including approaching the state economy as a whole, including state budget, public assets, land, resources, infrastructure, national reserves, state-owned enterprises, state credit institutions, state capital... according to Resolution No. 79-NQ/TW of the Politburo.
The state economy plays a leading role, but not by slogans, not relying on subsidies, monopolies, administrative incentives or xin-cho mechanisms. The leading role must be shown by the capacity to lead, regulate, stabilize the macroeconomy, ensure major balances, dominate key, essential, and strategic sectors; at the same time, comply with market discipline, finance, governance and accountability.
The focus in the coming time is to comprehensively review the legal system related to the state economy; clearly identify documents that need to be amended, supplemented, and newly promulgated; contents that need to be handled immediately in 2026; contents that need to be prepared for major law amendments. Switch from scattered resource management to unified life cycle governance (planning - allocation - management assignment, exploitation - use, accounting - supervision - efficiency assessment), taking efficiency, added value and sustainable development contribution as the main measure.
State-owned enterprises need to make breakthroughs in management according to modern, transparent, competitive standards and have a clear evaluation mechanism; take the lead in innovation, digital transformation, green transformation, and development of key, essential, and contagious sectors. Resolutely prevent the existence of group interests, backyards, term investment, and prolonged losses without clear subjects responsible.
The Steering Committee assigned the Government Party Committee to direct the Party Committee of the Ministry of Finance and relevant agencies to comprehensively review the legal system related to the state economy in the direction of clearly defining the list of documents that must be amended, supplemented, replaced, abolished or newly promulgated and the implementation roadmap; propose specific mechanisms and policies on state-owned enterprise development.
3. Regarding the Specialized Report on mechanisms, policies, and major solutions to institutionalize policies and orientations on economic development with foreign investment capital according to Resolution No. 10-NQ/TW of the Politburo
The Steering Committee agreed to strongly shift the attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the direction of selectively prioritizing modern technology, high added value, domestic linkage, contributing to green transformation, digital transformation, human resource training, innovation and improving the self-reliance capacity of the economy.
Investment incentives must be linked to the results of implementation and specific commitments on technology, research and development, technology transfer, Vietnamese labor training, domestic added value rate, domestic supplier development, environmental protection and compliance with the law. No spreading incentives; no chasing after the number of projects, registered capital scale; no trading in the environment, economic security, data security, national defense, security and long-term benefits for short-term projects with low spillover effects.
Improve the mechanism for selecting, supporting, managing and supervising strategic investors; build a national database on strategic investors and the National Single Window for Investment to digitize the entire process and interconnect data. At the same time, it is necessary to establish a post-inspection mechanism, recover incentives if investors do not properly implement commitments; strengthen the work of controlling transfer pricing, trade fraud and environmental, data, financial, defense, and security risks. The overarching goal is for FDI not only to come to Vietnam, but also to be attached to and make substantive contributions to production capacity, technology, management and gradually enhance Vietnam's position in the global value chain.
The Steering Committee assigned the Government Party Committee to urgently issue an Action Plan to implement Resolution No. 10-NQ/TW; submit to the National Assembly a draft Resolution on mechanisms and policies for economic development with foreign investment capital, ensuring quality, competitiveness, feasibility and ensuring national and ethnic interests.
4. Regarding the Specialized Report on mechanisms, policies, and major solutions to institutionalize the Party's policy on treating air pollution in major cities
The Steering Committee unanimously recognized: Air pollution in major cities, especially Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and surrounding areas, is a serious, urgent, inter-sectoral, inter-regional, inter-provincial issue; directly affecting people's health, quality of life, labor productivity, investment attractiveness and national governance prestige. This is not only an environmental issue, but also a sustainable development issue, people's livelihoods and public service responsibility.
Unify awareness of the transition from discrete emission control to air quality management according to objectives. Accordingly, it is necessary to focus on the pillars: Establishing a strong inter-regional coordination mechanism; comprehensive emission inventory, clearly identifying emission sources (industry, transportation, construction, agriculture, domestic use) to build a unified emission source database; developing a modern air quality monitoring, monitoring, forecasting, and warning system, ensuring publicity, transparency, and reliability.
At the same time, it is required to strictly control emission sources (transportation, construction dust, industrial emissions, waste burning, agricultural by-product burning), promote strategic solutions (green transportation, energy transition, clean technology, low-emission urban areas, circular economy) and improve sanctions that are sufficiently deterrent. The consistent viewpoint is not to let people live in prolonged pollution without clearly defining responsibilities, remedial periods and evaluation criteria for results.
Air pollution treatment must be linked to comprehensive solutions on environmental protection and sustainable development. In addition to the task of controlling air pollution in large cities, it is necessary to pay special attention to controlling water source pollution, soil pollution, especially agricultural land pollution.
The Steering Committee assigned the Government Party Committee to direct the Party Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, relevant ministries, branches, and localities to improve policies and laws on air quality management; establish mandatory air quality targets for each region, each urban area, and each stage; link the results of air improvement with the responsibility of local authorities, especially the responsibility of the head.
5. Regarding the Report on the situation and solutions for reviewing, amending, promulgating, and repealing legal regulations to cut and simplify administrative procedures and business conditions in 2026
The Steering Committee highly appreciates the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, branches, and localities for drastically implementing the peak period of decentralization, decentralization, reduction, and simplification of administrative procedures and business investment conditions. Initial results are very clear, within 01 month, administrative procedures under the ministerial authority decreased to 27.4%; it is expected to save about 23 trillion VND in compliance costs each year; abolish and amend 70 conditional business lines and industries; decentralize 362 procedures, reduce 697 procedures, simplify 673 procedures, reduce 1,754 business conditions; procedure implementation time is reduced by 53%, compliance costs are reduced by 54.6%.
These are noteworthy figures, showing high political determination, drastic and focused approaches. However, administrative procedure reform should not only stop at campaigns and statistics on the number of administrative procedures being cut and simplified. The fundamental thing is that people and businesses truly enjoy practical benefits such as reducing time, saving costs, and expanding development opportunities; at the same time, manifestations of arbitrariness, asking - giving, harassment, and negativity must be truly pushed back.
The Steering Committee requests ministries, branches, and localities to identify cutting and simplifying administrative procedures and business investment conditions as a regular and continuous task, associated with the responsibility of the head. Strictly control the promulgation of new administrative procedures and business investment conditions; only promulgate when it is truly necessary, legal, and reasonable, the cost of compliance is lower than the management benefits brought about, and there is no more optimal solution. Resolutely prevent the situation where administrative procedures are cut in this document, but new conditions, licenses, and requirements arise in other documents or in the implementation organization.
The Steering Committee requests a strong shift from pre-inspection to post-inspection based on risk management; from management by license to management by standards, regulations, digital data, accountability and inspection and examination work. Localities that are decentralized must have sufficient conditions, resources, human resources, and data to implement; do not decentralize forms, do not arbitrarily place additional procedures, components of dossiers, and procedures outside regulations. Ministries and sectors urgently amend, supplement, and abolish relevant legal documents, ensuring effectiveness on time as prescribed; periodically report to the Steering Committee on implementation results, difficulties, obstacles, and cases of delays and avoidances.
6. Regarding the study and proposal to amend the Criminal Procedure Code and related laws
The Steering Committee basically agreed with the necessity of researching and proposing amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code and other important related laws. The amendment of the Criminal Procedure Code needs to be implemented synchronously with the process of researching and amending the Criminal Procedure Code and related laws, placed in the overall requirements of building a socialist rule-of-law state of Vietnam, judicial reform, digital transformation, international integration, corruption prevention and control, wastefulness, negativity and unlocking development resources. Not approaching the amendment of the Criminal Procedure Code just like amending some technical procedures, but must be completed based on the foundational principles of modern law: Fairness, publicity, transparency, efficiency, humanity.
The Steering Committee assigned the Party Committee of the Supreme People's Procuracy, the Party Committee of the Central Public Security and relevant agencies to urgently study and complete the project dossier of the Criminal Procedure Code (amended), the Criminal Code (amended); submit to the National Assembly for initial comments on major policies at the thematic session in August 2026. In the process of building, for issues that are still difficult and problematic, under the authority of the Politburo, report to the Politburo for consideration and comments; for contents that have been agreed upon, urgently complete the dossier to submit to the National Assembly to ensure progress.
7. On organization and implementation after the Meeting
Immediately after the Meeting, it was requested that members of the Steering Committee, Party committees at all levels, and Party organizations focus on implementing 3 key tasks:
(1) SOON complete and effectively operate the working mechanism of the Steering Committee, the coordination mechanism between agencies, especially between the Party Committee of the Ministry of Justice - the Standing Agency of the Steering Committee and the Central Internal Affairs Commission.
(2) Prepare well draft laws, resolutions, and major projects to seek opinions from the Politburo and the Secretariat to submit to the National Assembly; overcome the situation of delays and debts of detailed regulations and implementation guidelines.
(3) Create strong changes in cutting administrative procedures, removing institutional bottlenecks, and perfecting laws in key areas discussed at the first meeting of the Steering Committee.
The Steering Committee assigned the Government Party Committee to direct relevant agencies to soon propose a plan to report to the National Assembly to allow extending the implementation time until the end of 2027 for Resolution No. 206/2025/QH15, dated June 24, 2025 of the National Assembly on a special mechanism to handle difficulties and obstacles caused by legal regulations, creating a legal basis for functional agencies to have enough time to complete relevant draft laws.
Party committees of ministries, branches, provincial and city Party committees regularly lead and direct the preliminary review, summary, and evaluation of the effectiveness of policies and laws that have been promulgated, especially policies and laws related to the organization and operation of local authorities at 2 levels, identify difficulties and obstacles to propose solutions to overcome. Provincial and city Party committees strengthen leadership and direction to improve the effectiveness of law enforcement in localities.
The Standing Agency develops a plan to monitor, urge, and inspect the implementation of the Meeting Conclusion; periodically report to the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee on completed tasks, slow tasks, difficult tasks, tasks beyond authority, and tasks that need to be promptly resolved. Do not assign tasks with slogans; do not accept the situation of "already deployed", "currently researched", "already thoroughly grasped" but cannot identify products, documents that have been issued, procedures that have been reduced, legal conflicts that are handled and the responsibility of the head.
The Party Committee of the Ministry of Justice - the Standing Agency of the Steering Committee, would like to inform members of the Steering Committee and relevant agencies and organizations to know and implement.
