On July 31, at the Government headquarters, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang chaired the 5th meeting of the Prime Minister's Administrative Procedures Reform Working Group and the Prime Minister's Administrative Procedures Reform Advisory Council. Prime Minister.
According to the report at the meeting, in the first 6 months of 2024, the provision of online public services has clearly improved with more than 13.9 million online records from the National Public Service Portal; more than 7.4 million online payment transactions with an amount of more than 4,620 billion VND.
Hanoi City and Thua Thien Hue province promote the pilot implementation of judicial record cards on the VNeID application from April 22, 2024.
The implementation of decentralization plans has been effective in resolving administrative procedures, helping to reduce levels and intermediaries.
Higher-level agencies reduce administrative work, focusing on policy formulation and planning; Reduce the time it takes people and businesses to travel, submit documents and receive results when administrative procedures are decentralized from the central to the province, from the province to the district, and from the district to the commune.
Regarding simplifying administrative procedures and citizen documents related to population management, ministries have simplified 247 administrative procedures and citizen documents in 25 legal documents, increasing the total number of administrative procedures and citizen documents issued. Simplified from 2022 to now is 828 administrative procedures, reaching 76%.
There are 7 ministries and agencies that have completed 100% implementation of the simplification plan; 10 ministries and agencies reached over 50%; 2 sets reached less than 50%. There are currently 256 administrative procedures that need to be further simplified in 1 law, 17 decrees, 10 joint circulars and 22 circulars.
At the meeting, Hanoi City proposed amending the Law on Criminal Records and related decrees; build a unified database on judicial records; continue to reduce criminal record checks in some application components.
Meanwhile, Ho Chi Minh City proposed that interested ministries and branches agree to share specialized data; Urgently announce decentralized administrative procedures for Ho Chi Minh City; The Government Office will soon issue a list of administrative procedures to be implemented locally.
Representatives of business associations recognized and appreciated the Government's efforts to reform administrative procedures in recent times, helping to significantly reduce time and costs for businesses, especially the implementation of online administrative procedures; We hope that administrative procedure reform will continue to be implemented more practically to promote growth.
Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang highly appreciated the positive changes in administrative procedure reform in the first half of the year, notably many administrative procedures continued to be reduced and simplified.
In particular, the provision of online public services has improved significantly; Receiving and resolving people's opinions is given more attention; The decentralization of administrative procedures continues to be promoted.
In addition, four localities including Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, and Quang Ninh are actively preparing for the pilot implementation of the one-level public administrative service center model in 2024.
The Deputy Prime Minister requested that members of the Working Group and Advisory Council continue to promote their roles and responsibilities, especially in sharing information and proposing solutions to reform administrative procedures so that the Working Group and The Advisory Council operates more and more effectively.
The Deputy Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities to uphold the roles and responsibilities of their leaders; more drastic and better coordination in administrative procedure reform; better communicate the results of administrative procedure reform to people and businesses.
Regarding specialized data connections, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized the principle that if localities want to connect to specialized databases of central ministries and branches, the prerequisite is to ensure safety. , security.