The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will complete the reduction of administrative procedures in the third quarter of the year, with two-thirds out of 443 being removed.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will complete the reduction of administrative procedures in the third quarter of the year, with two-thirds out of 443 being removed (Photo: baocongthuong.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) -The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will complete the reduction ofadministrative procedures in the third quarter of the year, with two-thirds outof 443 being removed.
The ministry has established a special working team including director of theLegal Department, director of the Planning and Investment Department and Chiefof Secretariat to review overall administrative procedures and businessconditions, and make plans for their reduction or simplification.
The move followed instructions by Minister Tran Tuan Anh on reviewingregulations on investment, business and administrative procedures under theministry’s management.
The MoIT has been one of the ministries managing a high number of investmentsectors and business conditions, with 28 under its purview.
All investment sectors subject to conditions must have administrativeprocedures to implement State management.
The ministry manages 443 procedures. However, in reality, it manages more than100 public services, as an investment licence, for example, would include threeor four administrative procedures including granting, supplementation,extension and withdrawal.
Over the past few years, the ministry has been active in reviewing, reducingand simplifying administrative procedures. It has taken drastic measures inadministrative reform this year.
Currently, the MoIT has removed and simplified 123 administrative procedures,accounting for nearly 30 percent of the total.
It revised and supplemented 60 legal documents as well as assessing theireffects.
The ministry aims to establish an administrative procedures system that ensuressimple, transparent and modern criteria.
Accordingly, the reform project could contribute to improving the investmentenvironment, thus increasing the economic competitiveness and State managementin the industry and trade sector.
The MoIT said its legal documents which were put forward for approval havereceived strong support from the business community and relevant agencies sofar this year.
In addition to administrative reforms, the ministry has strived to moderniseits administrative procedures.
Earlier, the Government required ministries to review business conditionsfollowing market mechanisms of OECD and proposed that those hinderingcompetitiveness be removed.-VNA
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The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will complete the reduction of administrative procedures in the third quarter of the year, with two-thirds out of 443 being removed (Photo: baocongthuong.vn) 
