Bad votes aren't necessarily bad.

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) has just released a report on voting for the best and worst legal regulations.

The report may not please everyone, but how the survey is handled is important, showing the ability of the government to listen and interact with the people.

Let’s take a look at some regulations that are far from reality, even too different. If Mark Zuckerberg lived in Vietnam, it would be difficult for Facebook to be born simply because the requirement for setting up a social network is to have a university degree or higher.

That's because Mark created the social network while he was still a... student. Or a business that wants to do shipping agency services must have its own legal staff, no matter how famous a law firm they hire, they are not qualified.

Or there are confusing regulations. For example, printing businesses importing paper cutters, book binders... must go to Hanoi to ask for permission.

Investing abroad, if losing money, transferring to someone else, must ask permission from the Government to stop investing abroad. Is this regulation any different than gritting your teeth and continuing to do it even if you lose money, because that is the regulation?

There are also standards that we are moving too fast compared to those of advanced countries, such as wastewater from chicken, pig, and cow farms must also reach value A, meaning the water can be drunk. Or with just one regulation, many suppliers will immediately have a huge market!

The regulation that each car must be equipped with a fire extinguisher, if strictly enforced, with 3.5 million cars with less than 9 seats, a market supplying fire extinguisher equipment estimated to be worth at least more than 1,000 billion VND will be created...

Happily, according to VCCI, at least 7 out of 30 poorly rated regulations have been revised, and 13 others are being revised.

But besides the ministries and sectors that have amended inappropriate regulations, many places remain silent. Of the total 237 nominated legal documents, the rate of good nominated legal documents is almost twice as high as that of poor nominated documents.

One-third of the 123 poorly nominated legal documents are ministerial circulars. This shows that the difficulties and troubles for businesses and business activities are coming from the ministerial level.

Issuing legal documents is under the authority of the competent authorities. But if we truly aim to build a creative and serving government, the regulations certainly need to be interactive, both the issuing and implementing sides find it reasonable.

VCCI's poll, naming the ministries with the worst-rated regulations, aims to create healthy changes from state management agencies.

It would be a waste if, instead of being receptive, we stay silent and ignore social assessments, even if they come from a survey.

It is also hoped that there will be more caution in introducing new regulations to reduce poor quality regulations. To do so, the authorities need to consult businesses, citizens and experts.

Only then can Vietnam quickly perfect its institutions according to international practices and market mechanisms - as committed by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the World Economic Forum held earlier this year in Davos, Switzerland.

According to TTO