Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued Official Dispatch No 131/CD-TTg dated December 11, 2024, on cutting and simplifying administrative procedures, reducing burdens and compliance costs for citizens and businesses, starting from the stage of building legal normative documents.

The Dispatch outlines six key tasks to address existing shortcomings and limitations in administrative procedure reform.

First, ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, and chairpersons of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-affiliated cities will review and eliminate, within their authority, any administrative procedures that hinder business operations and the lives of citizens.

Simultaneously, they will urgently build, submit for issuance, or issue (within their authority) amendments to legal normative documents in the form of one document amending multiple documents to reduce and simplify administrative procedures, business regulations, and citizen documents related to population management according to reduction and simplification plans.

Second, the Ministry of Justice, legal departments within ministries and ministerial-level agencies, and Departments of Justice under the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-affiliated cities, within their assigned functions, tasks, and powers, will focus on improving the quality of administrative procedure regulations assessment in proposals, projects, and draft legal normative documents, ensuring that only truly necessary, legal, and feasible administrative procedures with the lowest compliance costs are issued...

Third, the PM's Task Force on Administrative Procedure Reform will promptly direct the removal of difficulties and obstacles faced by ministries, agencies, and localities; in cases exceeding its authority, it will report to the Prime Minister for timely direction and resolution.

Fourth, the PM's Advisory Council on Administrative Procedure Reform will leverage its advisory role, propose reform initiatives, and proactively gather and provide detailed and clear information on difficulties and obstacles related to mechanisms, policies, and administrative procedures that hinder business operations and the lives of citizens, and propose solutions (if any) to report to the Task Force for timely resolution.

Fifth, the Government Office will preside over and coordinate with ministries, sectors, and localities to urgently build and submit to the Government for issuance a program to reduce permits and reform licensing activities in ministries, sectors, and localities for the 2025-2030 period, to be completed in the first quarter of 2025; and build and submit no later than January 2025 to the PM for issuing a plan for key administrative procedure reform in 2025.

It will also preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security and other ministries, sectors, and localities to upgrade and develop the National Database on Administrative Procedures and the Information System for receiving and processing feedback and suggestions on the National Public Service Portal, enhancing the application of artificial intelligence to support citizens and businesses in accessing information on administrative procedures and promptly identifying difficulties and obstacles related to mechanisms and policies.

Sixth, Permanent Deputy PM Nguyen Hoa Binh will be assigned to directly direct the implementation of this dispatch.