On the afternoon of September 20, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh - Head of the Steering Committee for reviewing and handling problems in the system of legal documents chaired the sixth meeting of the Steering Committee.
In his concluding remarks, the Prime Minister stated that General Secretary To Lam had requested to closely follow the goals of Resolution 66-NQ/TW of the Politburo, requiring the basic completion of removing "bottlenecks" due to legal regulations in 2025 and "no later".
Therefore, the Prime Minister emphasized 3 important goals in the coming time.
First, it is necessary to review, build and perfect institutions to transform the state from management as the main thing and "if you can't manage, then ban" to a state of creating development and serving the people more effectively.
Second, carefully review to promote decentralization and delegation of authority, clearly assign responsibilities between agencies in the political system, ministries, and localities, along with allocating resources and improving the implementation capacity of all levels.
Design tools to strengthen supervision and inspection, resolutely cutting down on cumbersome, unnecessary, tiring and development bottlenecks.
Third, review decentralization, delegation of authority, reduce procedures for the operation of local government at both levels, and improve capacity to create development.
The Prime Minister requested to continue to improve the review results, ensuring accurate determination of the content, handling plan and handling time for the contents identified as difficult and problematic due to legal regulations.
Publicly publicize the official response opinions of the Ministry or sector on the Ministry's Electronic Information Portal and the National Law Portal; at the same time, send to the agencies and organizations that have reflected and made recommendations with the contents of recommendations and reflections in the field of their state management that the review results show are not due to legal regulations.
Regarding the results of reviewing legal documents affected by the organizational arrangement, the Prime Minister requested ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and localities to be proactive and responsible for handling legal documents, ensuring timely handling of arising issues; focusing on thoroughly and effectively handling "bottlenecks" due to legal regulations in 2025.
Ministries and ministerial-level agencies continue to complete the results of document review, specifically determine the plan and roadmap for timely handling of legal documents under their state management, to be completed no later than October 1, 2025.
This is to ensure a legal basis and time for localities to complete the amendment, supplementation, cancellation, replacement, and promulgation of new local documents before June 2026.
The head of the Government also requested a plan for handling and a roadmap for handling legal documents affected by the restructuring of the apparatus.
Develop a plan to amend, supplement, abolish, replace, and issue new documents affected by the reorganization of the state apparatus under the state management of the Ministry or agency; send the plan to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Home Affairs no later than October 15, 2025.
