Over 2,300 business regulations streamlined
VGP - As many as 2,352 business regulations in 191 legal documents have been simplified since 2021 as part of efforts to further improve the investment environment, said Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra.
Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra
Minister Pham made the announcement at a meeting held on Wednesday to review administrative reform progress in the first half of 2023 and set tasks for the rest of the year.
In the first half, the Prime Minister approved the abolishment of 47 business regulations, while ministries cut 210 others.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Finance and the State Bank of Viet Nam to hold more dialogues and contacts with associations and enterprises to remove hurdles in credit access, import and export activities as well as payment settlement.
The Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs was urged to put forward amendments to Decree No. 152/2020/ND-CP regulating the management of foreign workers in Viet Nam and the recruitment and management of Vietnamese working for foreign organizations and individuals in Viet Nam (Decree 152) in July.
The simplification of business regulations had yet met the Government’s requirements, said Ngo Hai Phan, Director-General of the Administrative Procedures Control Agency under the Government Office.
Under its Resolution No. 68/NQ-CP dated May 12, 2020, the Government targets to simplify at least 20 percent of business regulations in the 2020-25 period but some ministries have issued their plans to implement the resolution.
Ngo said ministries and agencies should need make more efforts to implement the resolution through consulting associations and businesses plan to remove the regulations that are hindering the development of businesses./.
