More tasks for the Commune-level Public Administrative Service Center on administrative procedures
The Commune Administrative Service Center has the function of advising and assisting the Commune-level People's Committee and the Chairman of the Commune-level People's Committee in organizing the implementation of administrative procedure control.
The Government has just issued Decree No. 385/2026/ND-CP dated October 9, 2026, regulating the control of administrative procedures (TTHC), effective from October 10.
The Decree clearly states to promptly detect to abolish or amend, supplement inappropriate, complicated, and cumbersome TTHCs; ensure that TTHCs are issued in accordance with regulations, simple, easy to understand, easy to implement, saving time, costs, and efforts of implementing subjects and agencies implementing TTHCs.
Administrative procedure control is carried out right from policy proposals, drafting legal normative documents and is carried out regularly and continuously in the process of organizing and implementing administrative procedures.
Administrative procedure control must be linked to digital transformation and data management, ensuring exploitation, connection, sharing and reuse of data throughout the process of resolving administrative procedures.
The Decree stipulates that the Ministry of Justice helps the Government unify state management of administrative procedure control.
The Department of Administrative Procedure Control under the Ministry of Justice has the function of advising and assisting the Minister of Justice in implementing state management of administrative procedure control work.
Legal organizations or Offices of ministries and ministerial-level agencies have the function of advising and assisting Ministers and Heads of ministerial-level agencies in implementing state management of administrative procedure control work within the scope of management sectors and fields.
The Office of the Provincial and City People's Committees (provincial level) has the function of advising and assisting the Provincial People's Committees in implementing administrative procedure control in the locality.
The Public Administration Service Center under the People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones (commune level) has the function of advising and assisting the People's Committees of communes and the Chairpersons of commune-level People's Committees in organizing the implementation of administrative procedure control in the commune area.
In case the locality organizes according to the model of a single-level Public Administrative Service Center, the Office of the People's Council and People's Committee has the function of advising and assisting the commune-level People's Committee and the Chairman of the commune-level People's Committee in organizing and implementing administrative procedure control work in the commune area.
The Decree clearly states that TTHC stipulated in legal normative documents must ensure constitutionality, legality, unity, synchronization, efficiency, not contrary to international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member; transparency, simplicity, ease of understanding and implementation; saving time and costs for agencies, organizations and individuals; ensuring equal rights of subjects implementing TTHC; ensuring intercommunication between relevant TTHCs, implementing clear, transparent, and reasonable assignment and decentralization; ensuring full and specific regulations on the constituent parts of TTHC; ensuring the principle of digitization, using and connecting interconnected data, electronic identification, and providing information only once in resolving TTHC.
The policy proposing agency and the drafting agency are responsible for assessing the impact of administrative procedures if the policy implementation solutions, projects, and draft legal documents stipulate administrative procedures.
The regulation of an administrative procedure must ensure the fullness of the following basic components: Administrative procedure name; implementation order; implementation method; components, number of dossiers; settlement time; objects of administrative procedure implementation; agency resolving administrative procedures.
The Decree also clearly states that TTHC regulations must ensure the right to choose the implementation method of individuals and organizations, in which priority is given to implementation in the electronic environment, implemented regardless of administrative boundaries.
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