Vietnam: Complicated administrative procedures will be thoroughly evaluated and reviewed

Specifically, according to Article 30 of Decree No. 63/2010/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, the responsibilities for reviewing and evaluating administrative procedures are as follows:

-  Scope of review:

Ministries and ministerial-level agencies shall review and evaluate administrative procedures within the fields and sectors under their respective management provided in the legal documents of the National Assembly, Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the Government, the Prime Minister, ministers and heads of ministerial-level agencies.

People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities shall review and evaluate administrative procedures within the settlement competence of local administrations within their provinces or cities.

The Administrative Procedures Control Agency shall conduct independent review and evaluation of administrative procedures in the following cases:

+ At the instruction of the Government or the Prime Minister;

+ Administrative procedures are closely related to one another and the result of implementation of an administrative procedure is the premise for the implementation of subsequent ones;

+ Administrative procedures, through detection or feedback from individuals or organizations, are found cumbersome, difficult to implement, causing obstacles to production or business activities of economic organizations and people's lives.

- Handling of results of review and evaluation:

+ On the basis of results of review and evaluation conducted by ministries, ministerial-level agencies and People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities, ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies and chairpersons of People's Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities shall decide to revise, supplement, replace, cancel or abolish within their respective competence or propose competent agencies to revise, supplement, replace, cancel or abolish administrative procedures and regulations relating to administrative procedures which fail to comply with regulations.

+ The Government Office shall submit the overall review and evaluation results or independent review and evaluation results to the Government and the Prime Minister for decision on solutions to revise, supplement, replace, cancel or abolish administrative procedures and regulations relating to administrative procedures which fail to comply with regulations; supervise and monitor the implementation of these decisions of the Government and the Prime Minister by ministries, ministerial-level agencies and People's Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities.

View more details at Decree No. 63/2010/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from October 14, 2010.

Nguyen Phu

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