Ministries and localities will reduce at least 20% of procedures and 20% of compliance costs related to investment, production and business, under the direction of the Prime Minister.
This directive was issued today by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, in the context of the business community reflecting that administrative procedures are still a barrier to production and business.
Accordingly, the Prime Minister requested ministers and chairmen of the People's Committees of provinces and cities to review, simplify and reduce at least 20% of procedures and 20% of compliance costs related to investment, production and business. people's life. The reduction plan needs to be submitted to the Prime Minister for approval before September 30.
"Only promulgate new administrative procedures in cases where it is absolutely necessary to manage and adjust new social relations," the Prime Minister requested.
Ministries and branches increase decentralization and authorization in the implementation of administrative procedures; provide public services in the direction of "user-centered, avoid form, movement" and propose solutions to socialize eligible public administrative services. Agencies also review to reduce at least 20% of internal administrative procedures to improve the efficiency of the apparatus.
The Prime Minister directed to strictly and publicly handle cadres, civil servants, public employees and units to cause delays, especially giving rise to procedures and papers in handling procedures and ending the situation of pushing responsibility. responsibility, do not process or prolong the processing time.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment was assigned to review and submit to the Prime Minister a plan to reduce and simplify regulations and administrative procedures related to the implementation of investment and public investment projects. This report should be submitted to the Government in September.
The Ministry of Justice controls regulations and administrative procedures in legal documents. The Ministry of Home Affairs urges ministries, branches and localities to step up decentralization and decentralization along with resource allocation; increase supervision and inspection of state management among the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, branches and local authorities.
Quarterly, the Government Office reports to the Prime Minister on the inspection of units implementing the reduction of administrative procedures.
Over the past two years, ministries have reduced and simplified more than 2.200 business regulations in 177 legal documents. The Prime Minister approved a plan to reduce and simplify more than 1.100 business-related regulations. More than 4.400 online public services are provided on the National Public Service Portal. By May this year, the number of administrative procedures nationwide was more than 5, down 6.420 procedures compared to the same period two years ago.
However, the Administrative Procedures Compliance Cost Assessment Index report 2022 (APCI 2022) surveyed 3.092 businesses, showing that in order to carry out an administrative procedure in the land group, on average, each enterprise has to give up 32,2 hours, direct cost of about 3,8 million.
According to enterprises, the settlement of administrative procedures still goes through many intermediate layers, with the phenomenon of corruption and negativity. This increases time and social costs and reduces management efficiency.
