Prime Minister requests to abolish unnecessary certificates

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Government's Steering Committee for Administrative Reform, has just signed Decision 42/QD-BCDCCHC promulgating the 2024 Operation Plan of this Steering Committee.

The plan aims to improve the quality of direction and management of administrative reform work by members of the Government's Steering Committee for Administrative Reform (Steering Committee), creating a breakthrough in administrative reform in 2024; enhancing the responsibility of organizations and individuals, especially heads of State administrative agencies at all levels, in implementing administrative reform tasks.

Review, promptly detect and take measures to overcome overlapping and inappropriate legal regulations.

In particular, regarding institutional and policy building, ministries, branches and localities improve the quality of appraisal and promulgation of legal documents, ensuring consistency and feasibility; promptly promulgate documents detailing and guiding the implementation of laws, ordinances and resolutions; increase resources and funding for judicial work; review, promptly detect and take measures to overcome overlapping, inadequate and impractical legal regulations that cause difficulties and hinder development.

At the same time, prioritizing resources for the work of building and perfecting laws; improving the effectiveness and efficiency of law enforcement. Focusing on removing bottlenecks in mechanisms and policies to support production and business activities and the lives of people and enterprises. Continuing to synchronously perfect the legal framework to promote the development of science, technology and innovation.

Effectively implement the Project "Organizing policy communication with great impact on society in the process of drafting legal documents for the period 2022-2027" issued together with Decision No. 407/QD-TTg dated March 30, 2022 of the Prime Minister.

At the same time, ministries, branches and localities will strengthen innovation, enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of law enforcement monitoring, focusing on areas identified as key socio-economic development areas in 2024, in line with the general tasks of the entire 2021-2025 period.

Effectively implement the Plan to monitor the implementation of laws in key and inter-sectoral areas in 2024. Continue to effectively and substantially implement solutions to improve scores and rankings of the Law Compliance Cost Index (Bl Index); research and develop specific regimes and policies for institutional workers.

Prioritize reviewing and proposing solutions to reduce and simplify licenses related to business activities.

Regarding improving the business investment environment and reforming administrative procedures, ministries and branches review and report to the Prime Minister on a comprehensive plan to reduce and simplify business regulations that are barriers and cause difficulties for people and businesses, focusing on prioritizing the review and proposal of plans to reduce and simplify licenses related to business activities; proactively research, review, and propose to remove from the list of conditional business investment sectors those sectors that can apply other more effective management measures; review and propose to abolish unnecessary, unfeasible, unclear, difficult to determine, and impractical business conditions; abolish unnecessary certificates, and reduce certificates that are duplicated in content.

Ministries and branches shall fully, accurately and promptly update regulations related to business activities, review results, compliance costs, reduction and simplification plans; conduct consultations with organizations, individuals and subjects affected by policies and regulations; receive, synthesize, absorb, explain, respond and update handling results for comments, problems and proposals of organizations and individuals on policies and regulations within the scope of their management functions and publicize them on the business regulations consultation and lookup portal.

Ministries and agencies shall review, adjust and agree on the simplification plan and roadmap for handling legal documents with regulations on administrative procedures and citizen papers related to population management as assigned in the Government's specialized Resolutions for the 2017-2018 period, ensuring consistency with the current status of connection, management and exploitation of data from the National Population Database and laws on personal data protection; promulgate legal documents within their authority or submit them to competent authorities for promulgation to organize the implementation of the plan to simplify regulations on administrative procedures and citizen papers related to population management in 2024.

Resolutely handle violations of discipline and administrative discipline.

Regarding the reform of the civil service system, ministries, branches and localities continue to implement solutions to improve discipline, administrative discipline, the quality of public service implementation and improve the quality of service to people and businesses; resolutely and strictly handle violations of discipline and administrative discipline, ensure strictness in law enforcement and strengthen people's trust in the Party and the government.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has completed and submitted to the Government for promulgation a Decree amending and supplementing regulations on deputy positions in Decree No. 101/2020/ND-CP dated August 28, 2020 and Decree No. 120/2020/ND-CP dated October 7, 2020 of the Government; Decree on policies to attract and promote talented people in State administrative agencies and public service units.