Hanoi (VNA) – The elimination of businessconditions has helped ease burden on enterprises, but much work needs to bedone to boost the effectiveness, heard a workshop in Hanoi on February 27.

At the event, held as part of the Australianprogramme on supporting Vietnam’s economic reforms (Aus4Reform), Director ofthe Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) Tran Thi Hong Minh said inthe recent past, reforming regulations on business conditions to create afavourable environment for enterprises has been one of the Government’spriorities.

Between 2017 and 2019, ministries and sectorsproposed the removal and simplification of about 50 percent of all business conditions,thus helping firms to reduce time, costs and risks.

However, she said, there still exist unnecessaryor unreasonable business conditions that are useless for the State’smanagement. Therefore, improving the quality of business conditions remains afocus of business climate reforms in Vietnam, Minh stressed.

Nguyen Minh Thao, head of CIEM’s board onbusiness environment and competitiveness research, noted in the 2017-2019period, the Government issued nearly 40 documents to direct the reform ofbusiness conditions, adding that it is hard to find any reform area that theGovernment has paid such great attention to like the reform of businessconditions.

Most of business conditions have been simplifiedand few of them have been removed, she said, adding that although the work hasresulted in certain outcomes, obstacles related to business conditions remainpopular.

Particularly, companies’ feeling of reformeffectiveness is still limited, Thao stressed.

Dau Anh Tuan, head of the Legal Department atthe Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), pointed out thatmanagement agencies are still using administrative measures to intervene in themarket. There is even a fact that they want to increase, not decrease,conditional business sectors.

He suggested ministries and sectors reviewreform effectiveness in each field, continue reviews to abolish and simplifybusiness conditions, strictly deal with actions that intentionally causedifficulties for enterprises, and set up dialogue and feedback mechanisms forthe business circle.

Meanwhile, Thao said they should makebreakthroughs in this regard by changing management methods. 

Accordingly, companies should be allowed toactively operate and be responsible for their satisfaction of business conditions.State agencies will carry out examination after that, basing on firms’adherence to laws, she added./.