Prime Minister's dispatch on completing the implementation of administrative procedure and business condition reduction by 2025

The Prime Minister requested Ministers to resolutely direct the completion of amendments and supplements to 485 legal documents to implement plans to reduce and simplify 2,164 approved administrative procedures.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Official Dispatch No. 220/CD-TTg dated November 18, 2025 requesting ministries, branches and localities to focus on completing the implementation of plans to reduce and simplify administrative procedures and business conditions in 2025.

Implementing Resolution No. 66/NQ-CP dated March 26, 2025 of the Government on the Program to reduce and simplify administrative procedures related to production and business activities in 2025 and 2026, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities have focused on implementing assigned tasks.

The Ministries of Construction, Agriculture and Environment, National Defense, Science and Technology, Education and Training, Finance, and the State Bank have proactively issued Decisions approving the plan according to their authority (On October 23, 2025, the State Bank of Vietnam continued to issue Decision No. 3539/QD-NHNN supplementing the plan to reduce and simplify administrative procedures under its management).

The Government issued Resolution No. 66.7/2025/NQ-CP dated November 15, 2025, regulating the reduction and simplification of administrative procedures based on data (there are 786 administrative procedures with dossier components replaced by data; 08 administrative procedures have dossier components reduced).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

The Prime Minister has approved a plan to reduce administrative procedures and business conditions under the management of 14 ministries and agencies; specifically as follows: (1) The total number of administrative procedures to be reduced and simplified is 3,071/4,888 administrative procedures related to production and business activities (reaching 62.8%); (2) Reduce 2,269/6,974 business conditions in conditional investment and business sectors and professions (reaching 32.5%).

Eight ministries and agencies have revised and supplemented according to their authority or submitted to competent authorities for promulgation 13 legal documents to implement the plan to simplify 87 administrative procedures, abolish 6 administrative procedures and reduce 12 business conditions; have focused on providing online public services for administrative procedures related to enterprises; 34/34 localities have published a list of administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries in the area.

However, to complete the reduction and simplification of administrative procedures and business registration, the number of legal documents that ministries and branches must amend and supplement to issue under their authority or submit to competent authorities for issuance is very large. If they do not focus on implementation, it will be impossible to complete the target in 2025 according to the requirements of Resolution No. 66/NQ-CP.

In addition, 3,507/6,708 (accounting for 52.3%) of administrative procedure settlement result documents of ministries and branches need to be standardized; 2,244 administrative procedures need to standardize the association of settlement result codes for data reuse.

The rate of administrative procedures related to enterprises carried out online by some ministries, agencies and localities is low. The restructuring and amendment of internal procedures and electronic procedures to carry out administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries is still slow.

To ensure substantial and effective reduction of administrative procedures and business conditions to achieve the target in accordance with the direction of the Politburo, the Secretariat, General Secretary To Lam, the Government, and the Prime Minister, the Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities must immediately focus on completing a number of specific tasks as follows:

I. On institutional improvement

1. Ministers of Ministries, Heads of ministerial-level agencies

Focus on directing the drastic completion of amendments and supplements to 485 legal documents to implement the plans to reduce and simplify 2,164 administrative procedures and reduce 2,047 business registrations approved by the Prime Minister, in which special priority is given to immediately completing 319 legal documents that need to be amended and supplemented in 2025 under the management of 14 ministries and ministerial-level agencies (Appendix I attached).

2. Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities

Urgently review and amend regulations that are not suitable for the implementation of administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries and deploy full-process online public services such as: requiring submission of original documents; requiring submission of administrative procedure documents at the place of residence or headquarters or the place where the results of the first administrative procedure are issued; requiring presence at the place of settlement to sign and receive results, etc. to be completed in 2025.

3. The Minister of Industry and Trade shall complete the review and supplement the plan to reduce business conditions to ensure the target of reducing at least 30%, and submit it to the Prime Minister for approval in November 2025.

II. On providing online public services and performing administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries

1. Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities

a) Focus on implementing tasks and solutions on restructuring processes and providing online public services on the National Public Service Portal in accordance with the goals and requirements in Plan No. 02-KH/BCĐTW dated June 19, 2025 of the Central Steering Committee on science and technology development, innovation and digital transformation, ensuring quality, substance and efficiency.

b) Complete 100% of administrative procedures related to enterprises online, smoothly, seamlessly, effectively, and minimize paperwork by 2025. ( Appendix II attached ).

c) Complete the upgrading of the Administrative Procedure Information System to meet digitalization requirements, implement administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries within the province and implement the 2-level local government organization model; Convert data from the systems of provinces and cities before the merger, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and originality of data, serving management, operation, administrative procedure settlement, and providing online public services, to be completed in November 2025.

2. Ministers of Ministries, Heads of ministerial-level agencies

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits and inspects the operations of the Ninh Kieu Ward Public Administration Service Center. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

a) Urgently review and standardize the results of handling administrative procedures that have not been standardized; attach standardized result codes to the file components of administrative procedures as a basis for connecting, sharing, and reusing data, serving to reduce files and documents, ensuring that information is only provided once to state agencies.

b) The Ministries of Finance, Health, Justice, and Home Affairs urgently address the shortcomings of the Information System and database under their management, to be completed by November 2025, specifically:

(1) The Ministry of Finance resolves 3 outstanding issues: (i) Integrating and providing online payment services for land financial obligations between the Tax System and the Administrative Procedures Information System and the Provincial Land Database; (ii) Connecting the Business Registration Database, the Budget-related Unit Code Issuance System with the Provincial Administrative Procedures Information System; (iii) Handling regular errors on the National Single Window Portal.

(2) The Ministry of Health has completed upgrading and connecting the system for managing registration and licensing of medical examination and treatment practice.

(3) The Ministry of Justice promptly fixes the slowness and errors of the Electronic Civil Status Registration and Management System.

(4) The Ministry of Home Affairs has completed connecting the Database of beneficiaries of preferential policies for people with meritorious services with the Information Systems for handling administrative procedures at the ministerial and provincial levels.

3. Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities focus on directing the review and adjustment of internal processes and electronic processes of administrative procedures to meet the implementation of administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries, completing the goal of 100% of administrative procedures being implemented regardless of administrative boundaries within the province level ( according to Appendix III attached ) in 2025.

III. Implementation

1. The Ministers of Ministries, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities are responsible to the Government and the Prime Minister for the results of cutting and simplifying administrative procedures, business conditions and tasks in this dispatch, and reporting to the Government and the Prime Minister on the implementation results in the monthly administrative procedure reform report.

2. The Government Office, according to its assigned functions and tasks, monitors and urges the implementation of the above-mentioned tasks; promptly synthesizes and reports to the Prime Minister on issues beyond its authority. Report to the Prime Minister on the results of the implementation of tasks of ministries and branches before the 20th of each month.

This is a very important and urgent task that needs to be urgently focused on and completed. The Prime Minister requested that the Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Secretaries of Provincial and Municipal Party Committees, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities spend time paying attention to, leading and directing their affiliated agencies and units to complete the above tasks, ensuring the reduction and simplification of administrative procedures in a practical and effective manner, so that people and businesses can enjoy real results and benefits of the reform, achieving the goals and requirements of the Politburo, the Secretariat, General Secretary To Lam, the Government and the Prime Minister./.

(Vietnam+)

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