Actively review and remove all bottlenecks in institutions, mechanisms and policies.

On the afternoon of September 28, at the Government Headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh - Head of the Steering Committee for reviewing and handling difficulties in the system of legal documents chaired the third meeting of the Steering Committee to evaluate the tasks and results of the implementation of assigned tasks since the second meeting, and proposed tasks and solutions to be implemented in the coming time, especially institutional breakthrough solutions to unlock all resources and promote socio-economic growth.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the third meeting of the Steering Committee to review and handle difficulties in the system of legal documents (Photo: Tran Hai).

Deputy Prime Ministers Le Thanh Long and Ho Duc Phoc co-chaired the meeting; also attending were leaders of ministries, branches and central agencies.

Speaking at the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that we are in a period of acceleration and breakthrough to complete the tasks of 2024, preparing to enter 2025 - the year of completing all the goals set by the 13th National Party Congress. Recently, the 10th Central Conference of the 13th tenure has prepared documents and papers to send to Party Congresses at all levels in the spirit of mobilizing all resources to develop the country. The 10th Central Conference had many highlights in the discussion and reporting sessions, which is to emphasize continuing to promote 3 strategic breakthroughs, including promoting institutional perfection in the spirit of strengthening decentralization, decentralization, reforming administrative procedures, eliminating request-grant mechanisms, reducing cumbersome administrative procedures; reviewing and removing institutional and policy bottlenecks to unleash all resources for development.

The Prime Minister stated that the Government has established a Steering Committee to review and problem solving in the system of legal documents to carry out related work to remove institutional and practical obstacles. This session is the third session focusing on removing physical obstacles, which are issues related to resources, eliminating request-grant mechanisms, removing inconveniences and harassment, increasing compliance costs for people and businesses with the spirit of high determination, great efforts, drastic actions, focus, key points, completing each task, assigning "clear people, clear work, clear responsibilities, clear implementation time, clear efficiency, clear products".

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting (Photo: Tran Hai).

Recently, the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice, and the Government Office have focused on reviewing legal documents and removing difficulties and obstacles that hinder development. We are currently completing procedures to report to competent authorities, ensuring that a number of laws will be submitted to the National Assembly at the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly.

The Prime Minister also said that during this process, the Steering Committee coordinated with relevant agencies, consulted with the people, businesses, scientists, researchers, and policy makers. The Prime Minister hoped that the delegates would be active, focus their intelligence, and discuss because time is limited, and reality requires us to make efforts, so the delegates need to promote a sense of responsibility, contribute quality opinions, go straight to the point, and propose effective solutions.

* According to the Ministry of Justice, performing the assigned tasks in Resolution No. 82/NQ-CP dated June 5, 2024 of the Government on the regular meeting in May 2024, Resolution No. 93/NQ-CP dated June 18, 2024 of the Government on key tasks and solutions to promote growth, control inflation and stabilize the macro-economy, Resolution No. 97/NQ-CP dated June 24, 2024 of the Government on the thematic meeting on law-making in June 2024, the Prime Minister's dispatch, the Prime Minister's conclusion at the meeting of the Steering Committee on August 14, 2024 (2nd meeting), the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long, on the basis of organizing the implementation of activities to review legal documents and urging the handling of the results of the review that have been carried out, the Ministry of Justice reports to the Prime Minister and the Steering Committee a Main content:

Representatives of leaders of ministries and branches attended the meeting (Photo: Tran Hai).

Regarding the work done after the Second Session of the Steering Committee: Accordingly, regarding administrative issues, immediately after the Second Session of the Steering Committee, on August 14 and August 16, the Government Standing Committee met to give opinions on 3 draft laws including: Law on Public Investment (amended), Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of laws under the state management of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of laws under the state management of the Ministry of Finance;

Implementing the direction of the Government, the Prime Minister, and the Head of the Steering Committee, to handle the review results, the Ministry of Planning and Investment has proposed to develop the Law on Public Investment (amended), the Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Planning, the Law on Investment, the Law on Investment under the public-private partnership model and the Law on Bidding and the Draft of these Laws; the Ministry of Finance has proposed to develop and the Draft of the Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Securities, the Law on Accounting, the Law on Independent Audit, the Law on State Budget, the Law on Management and Use of Public Assets, the Law on Tax Administration, and the Law on National Reserves.

The Ministry of Justice has coordinated with the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance and relevant ministries, branches, agencies and units to appraise the proposals for drafting and appraising the drafts of the three above-mentioned Law projects, promptly issuing Appraisal Reports for each Law project chaired by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance;

The Ministry of Justice has organized many meetings with ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and relevant agencies to discuss and give opinions on the records and documents serving the Third Session of the Steering Committee; based on the meeting results, the Standing Department of the Steering Committee continues to revise and complete the draft Report and the accompanying Appendices;

Leaders of ministries and branches attended the meeting (Photo: Tran Hai).

On September 25, 2024, the Ministry of Justice issued an Official Dispatch to relevant ministries, branches, localities, organizations and associations, requesting to continue reviewing legal documents to remove obstacles, promote growth, control inflation and stabilize the macro-economy, focusing on laws such as: Law on Environmental Protection 2020, Law on Marine and Island Resources and Environment 2015, Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control 2013, Law on Commerce 2005, Law on Construction 2014, ... and other documents (if any), focusing on the contents of cutting administrative procedures, promoting decentralization, delegation of power, removing "barriers" that cause difficulties for people and businesses to synthesize and report to the Steering Committee in the next meeting.

Concluding the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested the members of the Steering Committee to continue to closely follow the operating regulations, contents, plans, and activities of the Steering Committee to participate in contributing efforts and intelligence to reviewing and handling difficulties in the system of legal documents. Ministers and heads of sectors focus on directing decisively and effectively, focusing on leadership, direction, prioritizing human resources, funding, facilities, and time for the work of building and perfecting institutions and laws; including reviewing and handling difficulties in the system of legal documents. The Prime Minister emphasized that we are in a period of acceleration and breakthrough to complete the tasks of 2024, preparing to enter 2025 - the year of completing all goals of the 13th National Party Congress. The recent 10th Central Conference emphasized the need to continue promoting three strategic breakthroughs, including accelerating institutional improvement and removing bottlenecks in mechanisms and policies to unleash all resources for development.

According to the Prime Minister, the construction and improvement of institutions and laws must be in the direction of further promoting decentralization and delegation of power; reducing administrative procedures, reducing hassles and compliance costs for people and businesses, eliminating the "ask-give" mechanism and the environment that gives rise to corruption and negativity, especially petty corruption; with an open, innovative, breakthrough mindset, a strategic, long-term vision for development, for the benefit of the nation and people, avoiding local interests. The Prime Minister gave some specific examples related to the development of regulations on the implementation of public investment projects, on public-private partnerships, on encouraging rooftop solar power, etc.

The Prime Minister stated that the Central Government and ministries and branches should focus on building laws, institutions, mechanisms, policies, strategies, plans and programs; promoting decentralization, along with resource allocation, improving the implementation capacity of lower levels and designing inspection and supervision tools; localities decide, localities do, localities are responsible.

The Prime Minister noted that the process of reviewing and proposing solutions to legal problems must come from practice and remove problems from practice. In law-making, there are contents that need to be specified in detail and specifically, but there are also contents that need to be specified in general and in principle, especially those issues that are still fluctuating a lot, so the Government must ensure flexibility, and the authorities from the central to local levels must implement them based on practice. Issues, projects, and tasks that have been assigned to localities to do well need to be evaluated, generalized, and legalized.

The Prime Minister reiterated the spirit of "What is ripe, clear, proven to be correct in practice, effectively implemented, and agreed by the majority, then continue to implement and legalize; what is not yet regulated or in practice exceeds regulations, then boldly pilot, learn from experience while doing, gradually expand, not be perfectionist and not hasty". The review and handling of problems in the system of legal documents in particular and the building and improvement of institutions and laws in general must ensure progress, time, and improve quality; in the process of building laws, it is necessary to closely coordinate with the agencies of the National Assembly.

Giving opinions on some specific contents in three draft laws drafted by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance to be submitted to the National Assembly, the Prime Minister requested the drafting agencies to closely coordinate with the National Assembly agencies, absorb valid opinions, provide convincing explanations with specific data, and complete the draft laws.

The Prime Minister also gave his opinion on solutions to the shortcomings and problems that were discovered and reported at the meeting. For the difficulties and problems in the draft laws that are already in the law and ordinance development program or are in the process of being developed and submitted to competent authorities, ministries and ministerial-level agencies shall synthesize and propose solutions immediately during the completion process and submit them to competent authorities for comments or consideration and approval. For draft laws that are not yet in the law and ordinance development program and plan for 2025, they shall synthesize, report and propose to the National Assembly.

Along with that, the Prime Minister requested to continue reviewing and identifying urgent shortcomings and obstacles, institutional "bottlenecks" that need to be removed to facilitate production and business of people and enterprises, ensuring the goal of promoting growth, controlling inflation and stabilizing the macro-economy in accordance with the requirements, tasks and directions of the Government. Along with law making, it is necessary to urgently develop and issue decrees guiding the implementation of laws to organize the timely and effective implementation of laws.

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Justice to advise on the personnel restructuring of the Steering Committee in accordance with the Steering Committee's operating regulations; at the same time, continue to synthesize the situation of document processing after review and review results from ministries, ministerial-level agencies and localities; coordinate with ministries and ministerial-level agencies to study and evaluate the review results, report to the Steering Committee for consideration and decision. To ensure the objectivity, comprehensiveness and accuracy of the review results, and ensure adequate basis for advising the Steering Committee, the Standing Body of the Steering Committee needs to flexibly organize conferences, seminars, and consult experts and scientists in the reviewed legal fields in accordance with legal regulations, especially on issues with different opinions between the recommending agency and the ministries and ministerial-level agencies in charge of state management...

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