Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment has proposed cutting 131 business conditions in agriculture.
The ministry’s legal department said it is reviewing 33 lines ofbusiness and 345 business conditions in the direction of cutting or simplifyingthem.
Specifically, 131 out of 172 business conditions for animal health,animal feed, plant protection and quarantine, quality management of geneticallymodified products will be adjusted, supplemented or annulled. Many otherbusiness conditions prescribed in the laws on fisheries and forestry will alsobe considered for streamlining. In the future, the laws on cultivation andanimal husbandry along with decrees guiding the implementation of these twolaws will also be subject to revision.
According to Dau Anh Tuan, headof the legal department of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, it isnecessary to reduce business conditions across production sectors to creategreater space for business development and improve the business and investmentenvironment, thus attracting more investment.
Tran Van Thien from the Vietnam Veterinary Pharmaceutical Associationsaid in fact, business conditions regulated in decrees do not pose bigproblems, instead it is the sub-licences put forth by guiding circulars thathinder businesses. He urged the MARD to review sub-law documents and learn fromexperience of related ministries and sectors to continue trimming regulationsthat cause difficulties to businesses.
Dr Tran Anh Quan of the Institutefor Machinery and Industrial Instruments (IMI) stressed that the reduction ofbusiness conditions will allow enterprises to save resources for theiroperation./.
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