To ensure 100% of small and medium businesses get legal assistance when there is a proposal in Vietnam

To ensure 100% of small and medium businesses get legal assistance when there is a proposal in Vietnam (Internet image)

The Prime Minister of Vietnam issued Decision 345/QD-TTg dated April 5, 2023, approving the Project "Improving the quality and efficiency of legal assistance for businesses in the period of 2021 - 2023"

In particular, ensuring 100% of small and medium-sized enterprises receive legal assistance when making a proposal is one of the contents set out in the objectives of this Scheme.

To ensure 100% of small and medium businesses get legal assistance when there is a proposal in Vietnam

According to Decision 345/QD-TTg, the Prime Minister of Vietnam has set specific goals for the Project "Improving the quality and effectiveness of legal assistance for businesses in the period of 2021-2023" as follows:

- Completing the legal framework on legal assistance for businesses; striving for 100% of legal regulations on enterprises, rights, and obligations of enterprises to be promptly and fully informed to enterprises; strengthen the organization of training, update legal knowledge for enterprises, and people providing legal assistance for enterprises;

- Effectively operating the network of legal consultants; continuing to build and complete the database on cases and legal problems for enterprises;

Ensuring 100% of businesses get legal assistance when there is a proposal; settling and removing legal problems and difficulties for enterprises upon request;

- Piloting and replicating at least 02 effective models of legal assistance for enterprises nationwide;

- Applying digital transformation to legal assistance for businesses; building an ecosystem of legal assistance for businesses in 63 provinces and centrally-run cities;

- Developing and maintaining a close coordination mechanism between the central and local governments, and between state management agencies and organizations representing enterprises in providing legal assistance to enterprises.
associated with perfecting the legal system and organizing effective law enforcement related to enterprises;

Deploying solutions to socialize legal assistance for businesses.

In particular, specific objectives must be based on the following general objectives:

(i) Promoting the achieved results, overcoming problems and shortcomings;

(ii) Continuing to comprehensively renew legal assistance for businesses; strengthening the inter-sectoral coordination mechanism; mobilizing social resources; focusing on the application of information technology and digital transformation in legal assistance activities for enterprises;

(iii) Implementing synchronously and comprehensively with a focus on legal assistance for enterprises, creating strong changes in the quality and effectiveness of legal assistance for enterprises;

Contributing to raising awareness and awareness of law compliance, limiting risks, and solving legal problems in the production and business activities of enterprises.

Solutions to complete policies and laws on legal assistance for businesses in Vietnam

In order to perfect policies and laws on legal assistance for businesses, the Prime Minister of Vietnam has introduced the following tasks and solutions:

- Completing the legal framework on strengthening legal assistance activities for businesses

+ Researching and evaluating the results of the implementation of Decree 55/2019/ND-CP, thereby proposing the amendment and supplementation of a number of regulations in order to mobilize the direct participation of representative organizations of enterprises, legal service organizations, and independent experts in legal assistance activities for businesses;

Completing the legal basis for the implementation of new legal assistance activities, encouraging innovation;

+ Finalizing Decree 55/2011/ND-CP (in the direction of increasing responsibility, focus, and specialization in legal assistance activities for enterprises; defining the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational apparatus of the legal organization of the Decree 55/2011/ND-CP)

- Reviewing and proposing improvements to relevant legal provisions to remove legal problems for enterprises.

+ Reviewing legal provisions in order to remove difficulties and obstacles of enterprises in production and business activities;

+ Surveys and timely dialogue with enterprises to correctly identify and hit legal difficulties and obstacles to propose improvement of the law and improve the efficiency of law enforcement organizations related to enterprises;

- Researching foreign experiences on legal assistance for businesses to improve the quality and efficiency of legal assistance for businesses in Vietnam

+ Researching, survey, exchange through online forms (online);

+ Organizing a working group to survey and learn from direct experience in legal assistance activities for enterprises;

More details can be found in Decision 345/QD-TTg takes effect from the date of signing.

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