Hanoi (VNA) - Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan hasasked relevant agencies to speed up the ministry’s online public services,making all agriculture administrative procedures available online by the end ofnext month.
At a meeting on online public services on February 8, Tuan said theministry wants to reduce at least 15 percent of the cost for administrationprocedures.
“Agenciesunder the ministry must meet and talk to businesses and residents aboutadministrative procedures every six months,” he said.
Thedeputy minister also asked agencies to review administrative procedures undertheir management and select services they could offer at online registrationservice level 4, which allows people, businesses and management units toperform administrative formalities, submit required forms, handle documents,payments and receive results using only a computer connected to the internet.
He noted that online registration service level 4 basically involvesimport/export procedures, and thus requires careful preparation or Vietnam willbecome an uncontrolled market of farming products for the world.
“Qualityof farming products must be top priority,” he said.
Deputyhead of the ministry’s Staff Organisation Department Ngo Hong Quang said theministry has developed its portal providing online information onadministrative procedures at dvc.mard.gov.vn.
A fewdepartments, including International Cooperation Department and BusinessManagement Department, had failed to complete their review and updateprocedures on that page.
Quangsaid the ministry’s portal connected with a national single window mechanismand offered nine procedures at level 3 and eight procedures at level 4.
Thisyear, the ministry would speed up the selection of procedures to apply onlinepublic service registration level 3 and 4 and develop a frame of its activitiesfor e-government development.
There arefour levels of public service online registration:
Level 1: Procedures to fill in the required formsand information about time and service cost are available online.
Level 2:The service allows the user to download the required forms to be printed andfilled in later.
Level 3:The applicant can fill in and submit the forms online.
Level 4:Service payments can be settled online. Transaction results are availableeither online or by post, upon request.-VNA
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