Deputy PM urges prioritising administrative reform in business

Administrative regulations and procedures in investment and business should be simplified and reformed first, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang said at a recent meeting on administrative reform and improving the efficiency of policy consultation to the Government and the PM.
Deputy PM urges prioritising administrative reform in business ảnh 1Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang says administrative regulations and procedures in investment and business should be simplified and reformed first. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Administrative regulationsand procedures in investment and business should be simplified and reformed first,Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang said at a recent meeting on administrativereform and improving the efficiency of policy consultation to the Governmentand the PM.

The Government Office on June 29 issued a notice onthe Deputy PM’s conclusions at the meeting, which pointed to limitations in thework and the causes like the low sense of responsibility of some agencies,especially of their leaders, loose coordination between agencies, and a lack ofdecentralisation.  

Quang emphasised the need to streamlineadministrative procedures in the areas directly relating to production and business activities and people's life such as construction, real estate, taxation, customs, electricity,energy, agricultural production and processing, export-import,education-training, and health care.

Ministries, agencies and localities must also fully and accurately publicise procedures on the national database onadministrative procedures, the Deputy PM said.  

Other tasks include assessing the qualityof services, and regularly supervising performance by relevant officials andagencies, and strictly handling wrongdoings.

The Ministry of Justice, legal affairs divisions in ministries and ministry-level agencies, and Justice Departments of provincial-level People's Committees must further strengthen the verification of administrative procedures in proposals, projects and draft legal documents to ensure that only those procedures which are really necessary, reasonable and legal are promulgated.  
The Ministry of Home Affairs is assigned to coordinate with the Government Office andother ministries and agencies in reviewing and proposing plans on consolidatinginter-sectoral organisations, including the PM’s policy advisory group. Thework must be done within next month.  

The Government Office is tasked with working together with relevant ministries and agencies to devise a plan on majoradministrative reforms from now to the end of this year, which will besubmitted to the PM in July.

The Deputy PM also instructed the Government Office to submit a proposal to the Prime Minister on the establishment of a task force on administrative reform of the PM, which will instruct, monitor andpush the implementation of programmes, plans and projects onadministrative reform, identify difficulties and obstacles and remove them in atimely manner, prioritising pending ones.

Quang also urged upgrading thenational database on administrative procedures in the third quarter of thismonth./.
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