Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang: Need to be more drastic and responsible in reforming administrative procedures

On the morning of July 31, the Prime Minister's Administrative Procedure Reform Working Group held its fifth meeting. Comrade Tran Luu Quang - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the Working Group chaired the meeting.

At Nghe An bridge, comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired. Also attending were representatives of leaders of provincial departments and branches.

With the strong leadership and direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, the efforts to synchronously and effectively implement tasks and solutions of ministries, branches and localities, and the role of the Task Force in directing, urging and promptly removing bottlenecks, along with the support of the Advisory Council, the administrative procedure reform (APR) work in the first 6 months of 2024 has achieved many remarkable results.

The results have been the reduction and simplification of 168 business regulations; decentralization of 108 administrative procedures; simplification of 247 administrative procedures and citizen papers; 1,052 internal administrative procedures approved by the Prime Minister and ministries, branches and localities for simplification plans. Online public services have been improved in quality, many public services have been restructured; the rate of online and digitized records has increased compared to 2023; The set of indicators according to Decision No. 766/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister has promoted the role of assessment and serving direction and administration.

Regarding the administrative procedure reform plan, in the first 6 months of 2024, 14/28 tasks have been completed, 14 tasks are being implemented (7 tasks are overdue), the working group plan 2024: 13/17 tasks have been basically completed (no tasks are overdue), the consulting group plan 2024: 10/23 tasks have been completed, 1 task is overdue.

In addition to the achieved results, the report clearly stated that some regulations and administrative procedures are still overlapping, complicated, and involve many intermediaries; the assessment of policy impacts, compliance costs, and consultation activities of some compliance agencies are not strict. Internal administrative procedures within each ministry, agency, locality, and between state administrative agencies are still complicated and cumbersome; The removal of obstacles for businesses and people has not received due attention; in some agencies, units, and localities, especially at the grassroots level, there is still harassment and negativity. The reception and settlement of administrative procedures are mainly done by traditional methods of paper documents, according to administrative boundaries; some online public services are not implemented smoothly. The digitalization and reuse of digital data in ministries, branches, and localities is still low.

At the conference, ministries, branches, localities, and business representatives discussed models and good practices in administrative procedure reform; at the same time, discussed difficulties and obstacles and proposed solutions to promote administrative procedure reform,...

In Nghe An province, with the implementation of many synchronous solutions, administrative procedure reform continues to have clear changes and achieve positive results, contributing to promoting the socio-economic development of the province.

The Provincial People's Committee has directed departments and branches to review, reduce and simplify at least 20% of internal administrative procedures according to the roadmap; directed departments, branches and branches to continue reviewing and simplifying administrative procedures under their authority to create favorable conditions for people and businesses. The rate of synchronized records on the National Public Service Portal reached 100% (with 732,009 records).

The rate of online payment increased from 13.51% in 2023 to 40.47% in the first 7 months of the year; digitization of administrative procedure records reached 78.91% and 75.5% of administrative procedure settlement results... To implement the Resolution 06/CP, units and localities have proactively researched, had many good practices, and many creative solutions, so up to now, they have basically completed the tasks as required.

Concluding the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang acknowledged and highly appreciated the results of administrative procedure reform in the first 6 months of the year. In particular, there are many new models such as: Issuing Judicial Records on VNeID in Hanoi and Thua Thien Hue from April 22, 2024; The model of a one-level administrative center will be piloted in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Quang Ninh as an administrative agency with the function of receiving, handling and controlling, monitoring, and evaluating the implementation of administrative procedures, providing public services in the province and centrally-run cities under the one-stop, one-stop mechanism will be launched in September 2024; Project 06 on the VNeID application is effective, practical, and efficient; Working groups and advisory councils operate more effectively.

Deploying tasks in the coming time, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang requested ministries, branches and localities to closely follow the Government's regulations to implement administrative reform in the spirit of: Promoting the role of the leader; need to be more drastic, more responsible; need to coordinate better; along with that, do a good job of communication. The Deputy Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities to respond to the recommendations of the members of the Advisory Council to synthesize and submit to the Deputy Prime Minister in September 2024...