Substantive and effective cost reductions.

To date, the implementation of Resolution 66/NQ-CP on reducing and simplifying administrative procedures related to production and business activities in 2025 and 2026 has achieved positive results. Specifically, ministries have completed and submitted to the National Assembly for approval 8 draft laws aimed at reducing 38 conditional business sectors.

Fourteen ministries and ministerial-level agencies have proactively reviewed, reduced, and submitted to the Prime Minister for approval plans to simplify more than 3,085 out of a total of 4,888 administrative procedures related to production and business activities, achieving a rate of 63.1%. 2,371 out of 6,974 business conditions have been reduced, equivalent to 33.9%. Specifically, from the beginning of 2025 to the present, ministries and agencies have abolished 282 administrative procedures, simplified 953 procedures, and reduced 849 business conditions. All 34 localities have published lists of administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries, with 18 localities having implemented 100% of procedures in this direction within the province.

However, it must be frankly acknowledged that the reduction and simplification of administrative procedures still face many shortcomings and limitations. These include the slow pace of amending and supplementing legal documents to implement approved plans, leading to a failure to achieve targets in reducing business conditions, compliance costs, and processing times. The percentage of administrative procedures related to businesses implemented online in some ministries and localities is low. Sixteen localities have not yet completed the implementation of 100% of administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries within the province. The restructuring of internal processes and electronic processes is slow; some national databases have not yet publicly disclosed information or provided guidance on data integration to facilitate the reduction of administrative procedures as required.

To address this situation, the Prime Minister issued Official Dispatch No. 242/CĐ-TTg on December 21, 2025, requesting focused efforts to achieve the goal of reducing and simplifying administrative procedures and business conditions according to Resolution 66. Accordingly, the Prime Minister requested ministries, sectors, and localities to urgently complete a reduction of at least 30% in business conditions, compliance costs, and processing time for administrative procedures, in line with the set target.

The Ministry of Justice is responsible for developing and submitting to the Government a resolution on a special mechanism to address legal obstacles and ensure the full implementation of approved reduction plans, to be completed before December 31, 2025. Ministries and ministerial-level agencies must review and immediately abolish outdated business conditions, and compile a list of unimplemented plans, submitting it to the Ministry of Justice before December 25, 2025. They must also urgently amend regulations that hinder the implementation of administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries and the full-process of online public services...

Reducing and simplifying administrative procedures and business conditions is an objective and urgent requirement. However, as noted by a National Assembly representative at the Ninth Session of the 15th National Assembly, although we have achieved relatively successful results in the past, the burdensome conditions for investment and business, and "sub-licenses," are showing signs of returning. The representative cited the example of rice exports, where Decree 109 previously imposed very high requirements. While business conditions were significantly reduced in 2018, the draft amendment to Decree 107 requires businesses to own warehouses and prohibits them from renting.

Another opinion suggests that some policies, regulations, and administrative procedures remain slow to be amended or supplemented. Almost every task seems to encounter obstacles. Some obstacles persist for a long time but are slow to be resolved, especially in areas such as the disbursement of public investment funds, land procedures, site clearance, compensation, support, and resettlement…

Based on this experience, the issue is that administrative reform and streamlining need to be substantive, avoiding a situation where the policy is correct but its implementation is merely superficial, reactive, or ineffective.

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