Directive No. 07/CT-TTg on intensifying the implementation of the Overall Program for Administrative Reform of State Agencies for the period 2011-2020

DIRECTIVE

On Accelerating the Implementation of the Overall Program for Administrative Reform of State Agencies for the Period 2011-2020

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Administrative reform is a key component of the Party and State's renewal policy. In recent years, implementing the Government’s and Prime Minister’s documents on administrative reform, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and local people's committees at all levels have made significant efforts and achieved positive results in administrative reform, particularly in streamlining administrative procedures and implementing the single-window mechanism, modern single-window interconnection. Recognizing administrative reform as one of the central tasks of the Party and State during this period and in the coming years, the Government issued the Overall Program for Administrative Reform of State Agencies for the Period 2011-2020 through Resolution No. 30c/NQ-CP dated November 8, 2011. However, the administrative reform work of many ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and local people's committees at all levels has been slow, with unsatisfactory results that have not met the requirements and tasks of economic and social development in the new context.

To accelerate the implementation of the Overall Program for Administrative Reform of State Agencies for the Period 2011-2020, the Prime Minister issues the following directive:

1. The heads of state administrative agencies at all levels shall be responsible for effectively organizing the implementation of the Overall Program for Administrative Reform of State Agencies for the Period 2011-2020; ensuring the quality of annual administrative reform plans; clearly defining specific results to be achieved, tasks to be carried out, and responsibilities of individuals, agencies, and units primarily responsible for implementation, and allocating resources to ensure implementation; strengthening serious, honest, and objective inspection and evaluation of administrative reform results in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The annual administrative reform results of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and local people's committees at all levels are important bases for evaluating the completion of tasks, leadership and management capabilities, and the responsibility of the heads of state administrative agencies at all levels, and are among the criteria for assessing and awarding commendations and honors to collectives and individuals.

2. To fundamentally innovate the process of drafting and promulgating legal normative documents and continue to improve the quality of institutional development to ensure feasibility, the Ministry of Justice shall:

a) Take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and relevant ministries and agencies in drafting and submitting to the Government the Draft Decree amending and supplementing certain articles of Decree No. 24/2009/NĐ-CP dated March 5, 2009 of the Government detailing and providing measures to implement the Law on Enacting Legal Normative Documents (after the National Assembly passes the Law on Enacting Consolidated Legal Normative Documents) in the direction of adding provisions on impact assessment for legal normative documents of the Prime Minister, ministers, ministerial-level agency heads, People's Councils, People's Committees, and other legal documents of the Government, Prime Minister, ministers, ministerial-level agency heads, People's Councils, and People's Committees with mechanisms and policies; establishing a system of mechanisms to control the quality of impact assessments for legal normative documents and other legal documents with mechanisms and policies issued by the Government, Prime Minister, ministers, ministerial-level agency heads, People's Councils, and People's Committees, jointly issued, or submitted to competent authorities for issuance;

b) Promptly draft and submit to the Government the Draft Law on Enacting Administrative Decisions aimed at addressing shortcomings in the issuance and enforcement of current administrative decisions; draft and submit to the Government the Pilot Project Scheme for centralized control over the issuance of circulars and joint circulars in areas directly related to the rights and interests of individuals and organizations.

3. The Ministry of Home Affairs:

a) Announce in the third quarter of 2013 the Administrative Reform Index for 2012 of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and provincial-level People's Committees under the Central Government. Implement the process of determining and regularly announcing in the second quarter each year the Administrative Reform Index for the previous year of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and provincial-level People's Committees under the Central Government;

b) Report at the Government meeting in September 2013 the results of a comprehensive review of positions, functions, tasks, powers, organizational structures, and staffing as of December 31, 2012 of agencies and organizations from the central to local levels specified in Point a Clause 3 Article 3 of Resolution No. 30c/NQ-CP (including analysis, comparison, and evaluation of changes in organization and staffing from 2001 to date; overlaps, intersections, and gaps in tasks and powers among agencies, and recommendations for handling measures);

c) Implement the Project "Strengthening Civil Service and Civil Servant Reform" approved by the Prime Minister through Decision No. 1557/QĐ-TTg dated October 18, 2012 to bring the Civil Servants Law and the Public Servants Law into practice, contributing to building a cadre of civil servants and public servants with sufficient capacity and integrity to meet the country's development needs.

4. The ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and people's committees at all levels shall vigorously implement administrative reform work; continue to review, simplify, and publicize administrative procedures in all sectors and fields in accordance with the Government's regulations on administrative procedure control; effectively implement the handling of administrative procedures under the one-stop mechanism, interlinked one-stop mechanism, and modern interlinked one-stop mechanism. The Ministry of Justice shall take the lead and coordinate with the Advisory Council for Administrative Reform and the ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and provincial-level people's committees directly under the central government to regularly or urgently propose initiatives and recommendations to the Government and the Prime Minister to amend administrative regulations to improve the business environment; select issues causing significant public concern to submit to the Prime Minister for prompt resolution by the ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and provincial-level people's committees directly under the central government.

5. The Office of the Government shall promptly connect the Government's Electronic Information Portal with the ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and provincial-level people's committees directly under the central government to form an electronic administrative information network and a management information system for databases, forms, and reporting indicators to serve the Government's and the Prime Minister's directives and management, to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2013.

6. The ministries and agencies shall accelerate the progress of building and implementing national-scale administrative reform programs and projects assigned by the Government in Appendix I of Resolution No. 30c/NQ-CP.

7. The ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government agencies, chairpersons of provincial-level people's committees directly under the central government, and related agencies and organizations shall be responsible for enforcing this Directive.

The Ministry of Home Affairs shall take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Information and Communications, and the ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and provincial-level people's committees directly under the central government to monitor, urge, inspect, and annually report to the Prime Minister on the implementation status and results of this Directive./.