Ministry focuses on cutting business prerequisites
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The Ministry of Planning
and Investment (MPI) is hastening the effort of cutting business prerequisites
in term of quality to ensure the deregulation to truly benefit firms, Minister
Nguyen Chi Dung said.
The minister said that the MPI in the first quarter of this year proposed
prerequisites to be removed for 22 business lines and amended for four others
to ensure the consistency with the Law on Fisheries, the Forestry Law and the
Press Law.
Evaluation of the quality of the deregulation of business prerequisites which
were implemented in 2018 and its impacts on the operation of firms are being
carried out and findings are expected to be reported to the Government in June.
Initial findings regarding the quality of deregulation of business
prerequisites at four ministries showed that just about 30 percent of removed
prerequisites really created favourable conditions for firms.
Dung urged relevant ministries and agencies to hasten the effort of reviewing
business prerequisites for removing unnecessary and infeasible ones and
simplifying those which remained complicated and unclear.
The MPI has recently made public the draft amendments to the Law on Investment
and the Law on Enterprise which aim at creating favourable, transparent and
level business climate, improving quality and efficiency in raising investment
resources appropriate to the socio-economic development orientations.
One of the focuses is completing regulations for business lines which required
prerequisites while cutting and simplifying those which are unnecessary and
unreasonable.
In the draft law, the ministry said that a mechanism would be raised to control
the issuance of new business prerequisites or amendments to existing business
prerequisites to ensure that the effort truly benefits firms.
The draft law said that prerequisites would be removed for business lines which
did not have direct impacts on national defense, social security and safety,
social ethics and community health, which are currently being managed by
standards and which had their product quality evaluated and decided to
choose or not by end-users.
In addition, prerequisites would be removed for the business line of supplying
of public products and services which could be selected and control via bidding.
Specifically, for debt collection service, the ministry said that the legal
framework managing this service must be completed to ensure social order,
adding that careful consideration should be given on whether this service
should be regarded as business line with prerequisites for banned business
line.
Regarding customs checks for import and export, Dung said that there were still
regulations which caused difficulties for firms.
He said that the first quarter of this year did not see significant improvement
in the simplification of customs checks.
“Customs checks are still causing difficulties for business operation. The slow
reform is increasing costs, wasting time and undermining competitiveness of firms,”
he stressed.
He urged the effort in reducing the number of products which required customs checks as well as simplifying the customs checking procedures.-VNS/VNA