Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Official Dispatch No. 131/CD-TTg dated December 11, 2024 on cutting and simplifying administrative procedures (APs), reducing hassles and compliance costs for people and businesses right from the stage of drafting legal documents.
According to the Official Dispatch, the Prime Minister requested Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to strictly control and strictly implement the assessment of policy impacts and administrative procedures in projects and draft legal documents; improve the effectiveness of consultation with affected subjects in accordance with the requirements of the Law on promulgation of legal documents.
Review and immediately eliminate administrative procedures that are barriers to business production and activities of enterprises and people's lives.
At the same time, urgently develop, submit for promulgation or promulgate under authority amendments to legal documents in the form of one document amending many documents to reduce and simplify administrative procedures, business regulations and citizen documents related to population management according to approved reduction and simplification plans.
Announce and publicize administrative procedures promptly, fully and accurately on the National Database on Administrative Procedures so that cadres, civil servants, people and businesses know, implement and monitor the implementation.
100% of administrative procedure records of ministries, branches and localities must be received and processed on the Administrative Procedure Processing Information System at the ministerial and provincial levels and must be connected and synchronized with the National Public Service Portal so that people and businesses can monitor and evaluate the implementation process.
Regularly monitor and track the implementation of regulations and administrative procedures after they are issued; promptly listen to and detect to amend and supplement regulations and administrative procedures that are no longer suitable and hinder socio-economic development.
Periodically, monthly publicize the results of service quality assessment for people and businesses according to Decision No. 766/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister on the National Public Service Portal, Public Service Portal, Electronic Information Portal of ministries, branches and localities.
The Ministry of Justice - the standing agency of the Steering Committee for reviewing and organizing the implementation of handling difficulties in the legal system, closely coordinates with ministries and agencies to review and propose priority to include in the law and ordinance development program draft laws to implement plans to reduce and simplify regulations and administrative procedures approved by the Government and Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister's Administrative Procedure Reform Working Group assists the Prime Minister in directing and urging ministries, branches and localities to implement this Official Dispatch.
Timely direct the removal of difficulties and obstacles of ministries, agencies and localities; in cases beyond authority, report to the Prime Minister for timely direction and removal.
The Government Office shall preside over and coordinate with ministries, branches and localities to urgently develop and submit to the Government for promulgation a program to reduce licenses and innovate licensing activities at ministries, branches and localities for the period 2025-2030, to be completed in the first quarter of 2025.
Develop and submit to the Prime Minister for promulgation the Plan for key administrative procedure reform in 2025, to be completed in January 2025.
