Prime Minister requests continued substantial reduction of administrative procedures

Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra has just signed Official Dispatch No. 596/TTg-CDS of the Prime Minister on continuing to implement decentralization, reduction, and simplification of administrative procedures (TTHC), business conditions (ĐKKD).

The document stated that on April 29, 2026, the Government issued 11 Resolutions on reducing, decentralizing, simplifying administrative procedures, business conditions and reducing conditional business lines and industries. The Prime Minister has issued a document directing ministries, agencies, and localities to implement the Resolutions.

On that basis, the Prime Minister directs the Ministries and agencies: Health; Education and Training; Construction; Industry and Trade; Culture, Sports and Tourism; Science and Technology and the State Bank of Vietnam to review the results of decentralization and decentralization of administrative procedures under the management scope of the Ministry and agency to continue decentralization according to their authority or propose to competent authorities to amend and supplement legal documents decentralizing the implementation of administrative procedures, striving to achieve the requirements and objectives in Conclusion No. 18-KL/TW.

Ministries: Finance; Science and Technology review administrative procedures and business registration corresponding to conditional business lines that have been cut to continue substantive cuts in accordance with the directions in Conclusion No. 18-KL/TW and of the Government and the Prime Minister.

Ministries: Health; Education and Training; Ethnic Minorities and Religions; Foreign Affairs; Agriculture and Environment; Industry and Trade; Culture, Sports and Tourism; Science and Technology urgently complete the promulgation according to their authority or submit to competent authorities to promulgate legal normative documents to immediately complete the implementation of the plan to decentralize 69 administrative procedures, reduce 31 administrative procedures, simplify 24 administrative procedures, and reduce 82 outstanding business conditions in accordance with the plan reported to the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister requests ministries and ministerial-level agencies to announce administrative procedures that have been cut and simplified in 11 Resolutions and update and publicize them on the National Database on Administrative Procedures, restructure processes for integration on the Centralized Administrative Procedure Resolution Information System, the National Public Service Portal serving administrative procedure resolution, completing them no later than June 5, 2026 for the cluster of 8 Resolutions issued on April 29 and Circulars issued to be synchronized with the Resolutions; no later than June 10, 2026 for the remaining 3 Resolutions; and at the same time, take the lead in implementing the configuration and provision of administrative procedures that have been decentralized and simplified according to 11 Resolutions.

Ministries and ministerial-level agencies report on the results of the assigned tasks mentioned above, and send them to the Ministry of Justice before June 12, 2026.

The Prime Minister requests the People's Committees of provinces and cities to summarize and report to the Ministry of Justice on the situation of arranging, arranging, and allocating resources to receive decentralized administrative procedures from the Central Government, difficulties, obstacles and specific proposals and recommendations (if any), to be completed before June 12, 2026.

The Ministry of Justice continues to coordinate with ministries and ministerial-level agencies to review and update data on cutting, decentralizing, and simplifying administrative procedures and business conditions, ensuring accuracy and consistency; summarize and report to the Prime Minister on the situation and results of task implementation of ministries, agencies, and localities assigned above and arising issues (if any), to be completed before June 15, 2026.

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