Deputy Prime Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra has signed Document No. 527 of the Prime Minister on reducing and simplifying administrative procedures and business conditions to ensure they are substantive, practical, and meet management requirements.
Accordingly, the Prime Minister requires ministries and sectors to provide guidance on implementing 8 resolutions that have been issued, especially the procedures and processes to carry out procedures that have been delegated to local authorities. They are to issue amendments and supplements within their authority to ensure consistency and uniformity with the Government’s resolutions.
Synchronously amend procedural regulations and business conditions
Develop and issue legal documents within their authority to delegate, reduce, and simplify procedures and business conditions that still need to be further implemented, ensuring progress and quality, and completing them before May 20.
Ministries must strictly implement the announcement and public disclosure of administrative procedures, business conditions, and conditional business investment sectors that have been reduced, simplified, and delegated, within the timeframes prescribed by law on procedure control and investment.
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Review and immediately issue, within their authority, documents amending and supplementing to ensure synchronized implementation with the Government’s Resolutions.
Guide local authorities in allocating resources, conducting training, and organizing sessions to ensure that localities can receive and implement procedures smoothly and deploy them on the procedure resolution information system.
For conditional business investment sectors and business conditions that have been reduced, ministries need to urgently review, issue new, amend, or supplement technical standards, regulations, or alternative management measures that are suitable with international practices and Vietnam’s practical conditions.
Minimize compliance costs for people and businesses, while meeting safety and security requirements for the people. Implementation must ensure effectiveness at the same time as the reduction of sectors, procedures, and conditions, absolutely avoiding legal gaps or loopholes in state management.
Score administrative reform work
Continue to review and complete the plan for reducing conditional business investment sectors, especially those sectors already planned for reduction, ensuring it is substantive, practical, and meets management requirements.
Receive, handle, and immediately resolve, within their authority, difficulties and obstacles reported by people, businesses, and local authorities during the implementation and resolution of procedures, and promptly report and advise higher authorities on matters beyond their authority.
In particular, the Prime Minister strictly prohibits the addition of procedures, business conditions, or unnecessary management measures that increase compliance costs for people and businesses.
Local authorities are required to implement immediately, absolutely avoiding any disruptions in procedures. They must announce and publicize procedures, deploy them on the procedure resolution information system, train officials and civil servants, and resolve obstacles during implementation.
Additionally, the Ministry of Justice must regularly conduct independent evaluations of the results of reducing and simplifying administrative procedures and business conditions, and report on reform results on a monthly basis.
Urgently complete and submit to the Prime Minister for issuance in June 2026 a pilot project for evaluating and scoring procedure reform work, to be applied from July 2026. The content of the project must clearly define criteria for assessing the substance of the reduction and simplification, along with a strict control mechanism, absolutely avoiding the emergence of unnecessary procedures, business conditions, or conditional business investment sectors.
This aims to ensure the participation of people, the business community, and local authorities in the evaluation.
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