Focus on achieving the goal of reducing and simplifying administrative procedures and business conditions.

The official dispatch stated:

In implementing Resolution No. 66/NQ-CP dated March 26, 2025 of the Government on the Program for reducing and simplifying administrative procedures related to production and business activities in 2025 and 2026, the Government and the Prime Minister have issued many resolutions and directives, especially Directive No. 220/CĐ-TTg dated November 18, 2025 of the Prime Minister; ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and People's Committees of provinces and centrally-administered cities have focused on implementation and achieved the following results: (i) Ministries have focused on completing and submitting to the National Assembly for consideration and approval 08 draft laws aimed at reducing 38 conditional business sectors and related business conditions. (ii) The Ministry of Industry and Trade has submitted the second phase of the plan to the Prime Minister for approval. To date, 14 ministries and ministerial-level agencies have proactively reduced and submitted to the Prime Minister for approval the plan to reduce and simplify 3,085 out of 4,888 administrative procedures related to production and business activities (reaching 63.1%); and reduced 2,371 out of 6,974 business conditions in conditional investment and business sectors (reaching 33.9%).

Building upon the results of reducing 3,241 business regulations under Government Resolution No. 68/NQ-CP dated May 12, 2020; and implementing Resolution No. 66/NQ-CP, from the beginning of 2025 to the present, ministries and agencies have issued and submitted to competent authorities for promulgation legal documents to abolish 282 administrative procedures, simplify 953 administrative procedures, and reduce 849 business conditions; they have promoted the provision of online public services for administrative procedures related to businesses; 34 out of 34 localities have published lists of administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries within their areas, including 18 localities that have published 100% of administrative procedures that can be implemented regardless of administrative boundaries within the province.

However, despite the achievements, the implementation of tasks by some ministries, sectors, and localities still has shortcomings and limitations, specifically:

(i) The amendment and supplementation of legal documents to implement the plan approved by the Prime Minister has been slow, so the rate of reduction of business conditions, compliance costs, and processing time has not yet reached the targets set in Resolution 66/NQ-CP.

(ii) The percentage of administrative procedures related to businesses that are carried out online in some ministries, agencies, and localities is low compared to the set target.

(iii) There are still 16 localities that have not completed the implementation of 100% of administrative procedures under their jurisdiction that can be carried out regardless of administrative boundaries within the province.

(iv) The restructuring and modification of internal processes and electronic processes to implement administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries is still slow.

(v) There are still 07 databases that have not publicly disclosed information and provided guidance on data integration to implement data-driven reduction and simplification of administrative procedures in accordance with Resolution No. 66.7/2025/NQ-CP.

To ensure the effective and substantial reduction of administrative procedures and business conditions, achieving the targets set by the Politburo, the Secretariat, and General Secretary To Lam, the Government and the Prime Minister request that Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, and chairpersons of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-administered cities focus on immediately completing the following specific tasks:

I. COMPLETE THE TASK OF REDUCING BUSINESS CONDITIONS, COMPLIANCE COSTS, AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE PROCESSING TIMES BY AT LEAST 30%

1. The Ministry of Justice shall preside over and coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies to develop and submit to the Government for promulgation a Resolution in accordance with Resolution No. 206/2025/QH15 dated June 24, 2025 of the National Assembly on a special mechanism for handling difficulties and obstacles arising from legal provisions regulating regulations in normative legal documents issued by central agencies, in order to reduce and simplify administrative procedures and business conditions according to the plan approved by the Prime Minister, to be completed before December 31, 2025.

2. Ministers of Ministries, Heads of ministerial-level agencies:

a) Urgently review and immediately abolish business conditions for sectors and professions that have been removed from the list of conditional investment and business sectors and professions as stipulated in the Investment Law.

b) Compile a list of proposed measures to reduce and simplify administrative procedures and business conditions that have not yet been implemented, and submit it to the Ministry of Justice before December 25, 2025, for compilation and drafting of a Resolution to be submitted to the Government, ensuring the completion of the implementation of the measures approved by the Prime Minister.

c) Urgently review and amend regulations that are inconsistent with the implementation of administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries and the deployment of full-process online public services, such as: requiring the submission of original documents; requiring the submission of administrative procedure documents at the place of residence or office or where the results of the initial administrative procedure are issued; requiring the presence at the processing location to sign for the results, etc., to be completed before December 31, 2025.

d) The Ministries of Finance, Agriculture and Environment, Health, and Public Security shall promptly and fully update information in the databases (National Insurance Database, National Business Registration Database, National Land Database, Electronic Health Record Platform Database, Vehicle Registration Database, Driver's License Database, Criminal Record Database) and publish the scope of information in the databases that can be exploited and used to replace paper documents in administrative procedures; guide ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and localities to connect and exploit the databases, clearly identifying the necessary information fields to serve exploitation and use in accordance with the regulations in Resolution No. 66.7/2025/NQ-CP, completing this before December 25, 2025.

3. Chairpersons of People's Committees of provinces and cities: Complete the review, reduction, and simplification of administrative procedures stipulated in legal documents issued by the locality before December 31, 2025.

II. COMPLETING THE PROVISION OF ONLINE PUBLIC SERVICES AND IMPLEMENTING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES REGARDLESS OF ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES

1. Ministers of Ministries, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Chairpersons of People's Committees of provinces and cities:

a) Focus on implementing tasks and solutions for restructuring processes and providing online public services on the National Public Service Portal in accordance with the objectives, requirements, and roadmap outlined in Plan No. 02-KH/BCĐTW dated June 19, 2025, of the Central Steering Committee on Science, Technology, Innovation, and Digital Transformation, ensuring quality, substance, and effectiveness.

b) Complete 100% of administrative procedures related to businesses, ensuring they are conducted online, smoothly, seamlessly, and efficiently, minimizing paperwork, before December 31, 2025.

c) Ministries and ministerial-level agencies shall accelerate the construction of national and specialized databases; ensure interconnection, synchronization, and data sharing between systems to provide full-process online public services, as well as reduce and simplify administrative procedures in accordance with the roadmap in Resolution No. 214/NQ-CP dated July 23, 2025, of the Government promulgating the Action Plan to promote data creation to serve comprehensive digital transformation in the political system.

d) Complete the publication and full disclosure of internal administrative procedures between state administrative agencies on the National Database of Administrative Procedures and conduct a review, reduction, and simplification in accordance with the streamlining and reorganization of the apparatus, while ensuring smooth operation and efficiency, to be completed before December 31, 2025.

2. Chairpersons of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-administered cities shall focus on directing the review and adjustment of internal processes and electronic processes of administrative procedures to ensure that administrative procedures are implemented regardless of administrative boundaries, achieving the goal of 100% of administrative procedures being implemented regardless of administrative boundaries within the province by December 31, 2025.

III. IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION

1. The Ministers of Ministries, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, and Chairpersons of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-administered cities are responsible to the Government.

The Prime Minister is requested to report the results of reducing and simplifying administrative procedures, business conditions, and other tasks outlined in this directive to the Government and the Prime Minister before December 25, 2025.

2. The Government Office, in accordance with its assigned functions and duties, shall monitor and urge the implementation of the above-mentioned tasks; and promptly compile and report to the Prime Minister on issues beyond its authority.

This is a very important and urgent task that requires prompt and focused completion. The Prime Minister requests that the Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Secretaries of Provincial and City Party Committees, and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities dedicate time to leading and directing their subordinate agencies and units to complete the above-mentioned tasks, ensuring that the reduction and simplification of administrative procedures are substantive and effective, and that citizens and businesses benefit from the real results and advantages of the reforms, achieving the goals and requirements of the Politburo, the Secretariat, General Secretary To Lam, the Government, and the Prime Minister.