Resolution No. 19/2026/NQ-CP on reducing, delegating, and simplifying administrative procedures and business operation conditions under the management scope of the Ministry of Industry and Trade

RESOLUTION

REDUCTION, DELEGATION, SIMPLIFICATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES AND BUSINESS LICENSES UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE

BASED ON THE GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION LAW NO. 63/2025/QH15;

BASED ON THE LAW ON ISSUANCE OF LEGAL REGULATIONS NO. 64/2025/QH15, AMENDED AND ENHANCED BY THE LAW NO. 87/2025/QH15;

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MINISTER OF COMMERCE'S PROPOSAL;

THE GOVERNMENT ISSUES THIS RESOLUTION ON REDUCING, DELEGATING, AND SIMPLIFYING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES AND BUSINESS LICENSES UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE.

CHAPTER I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope of Application

This Resolution stipulates the reduction, delegation, and simplification of administrative procedures and business licenses under the management of the Ministry of Commerce.

Article 2. Principles of Reduction, Delegation, and Simplification of Administrative Procedures and Business Licenses

1. The reduction, delegation, and simplification of administrative procedures and business licenses shall ensure facilitation for organizations and individuals, creating a favorable and fair business environment; promoting innovation and creativity; enhancing the effectiveness of state management.

2. Continuously reforming and improving the one-stop service mechanism to enhance its efficiency; ensuring transparency and optimizing processes so that administrative procedures are not dependent on administrative boundaries; increasing labor productivity and the effectiveness of state management, creating a significant change in administrative governance.

3. Continuously implementing the replacement or reduction of document components in administrative procedures based on their adequacy for data utilization from databases; not requiring the provision of document components to resolve administrative procedures where information contained in such components is already available in the database and disclosed by the competent authority.

CHAPTER II

REDUCTION, DELEGATION, SIMPLIFICATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES AND BUSINESS LICENSES UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE

Article 3. Delegation of Administrative Procedures Under the Management of the Ministry of Commerce

The delegation of administrative procedures under the management of the Ministry of Commerce shall be in accordance with the provisions set forth in Appendix I attached to this Resolution.

Article 4. Reduction of Business Licensing Conditions Under the Management of the Ministry of Commerce

The reduction of business licensing conditions under the management of the Ministry of Commerce shall be in accordance with the provisions set forth in Appendix II attached to this Resolution. Article 5. Reduction and Simplification of Administrative Procedures Under the Management of the Ministry of Commerce

The reduction and simplification of administrative procedures under the management of the Ministry of Commerce shall be in accordance with the provisions set forth in Appendix III attached to this Resolution.

CHAPTER III IMPLEMENTATION CONDITIONS

Article 6. Implementation Organization

1. MINISTRY OF COMMERCE a) Shall bear responsibility for implementing, supervising, urging, and inspecting the implementation of this Resolution;

b) Submit to competent authorities or issue regulations in accordance with their authority as specified in the Appendices attached to this Resolution to delegate, reduce, and simplify administrative procedures and business licenses, ensuring effectiveness by March 1, 2027.

2. MINISTRIES, DEPARTMENTS AT THE SAME LEVEL, OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS WITHIN THEIR SCOPE OF MISSION AND AUTHORITY shall bear responsibility for either leading or cooperating in the implementation of this Resolution.

3. PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE OF PROVINCES a) Organize the implementation and execution of tasks and powers delegated under the provisions of this Resolution and local government organization laws;

b) Mobilize resources for implementation at the local level.

a) Shall be responsible for implementing, supervising, urging, and inspecting the execution of this Resolution;

b) Submit to the competent authority or issue, in accordance with its powers, normative legal documents as specified in the Annex attached to this Resolution to delegate, reduce, and simplify administrative procedures and business conditions, ensuring their effectiveness by March 1, 2027.

2. Ministries, equivalent ministries, other agencies within the scope of their functions and powers shall be responsible for either leading or cooperating in the implementation of this Resolution.

3. People's Committees at provincial level

a) Organize the implementation and execution of tasks and authorities delegated according to the provisions of this Resolution and the laws on local administrative organization;

b) Mobilize resources for implementation at the local level.

Article 7. Transitional Provisions

1. For applications for administrative procedures in fields specified in the annex to this Resolution that have been received by competent authorities or stamped with postal cancellation before the entry into force of this Resolution, they shall be processed according to the provisions of the then-effective law regulating such field at the time of receipt.

2. Documents and papers issued or granted by competent authorities prior to the entry into force of this Resolution that have not expired their validity or usage period may continue to be applied and used in accordance with the provisions of the law until they expire, are amended, supplemented, replaced, repealed, revoked, or recovered by the authority receiving functions, duties, and powers or a competent authority.

Article 8. Entry into Force

1. This Resolution shall enter into force on April 29, 2026, except as provided in Clause 2 of this Article.

2. Article 3 and Annex I to this Resolution shall enter into force thirty days after the entry into force of this Resolution.

3. This Resolution shall cease to have effect on March 1, 2027, except where laws, resolutions of the National Assembly, ordinances, or resolutions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, decrees, or decisions of the Government, or decisions of the Prime Minister provide for the authority, responsibilities, management functions, business conditions, procedures, and formalities stipulated in this Resolution, which are adopted or issued from April 29, 2026, and become effective before March 1, 2027. In such cases, the corresponding provisions of this Resolution shall cease to have effect at the time these legal documents take effect.

4. During the period when the provisions of this Resolution are in force, if the provisions concerning authority, responsibilities, management functions, business conditions, procedures, and formalities in this Resolution differ from those in relevant legal documents, they shall be implemented according to the provisions of this Resolution.

5. The heads of agencies, units, civil servants, public officials, and staff involved in drafting, issuing, or implementing this Resolution may be exempted, relieved, or have their responsibilities reduced in accordance with Party regulations and Article 68, Paragraph 11 of the Law on Issuing Normative Legal Documents No. 64/2025/QH15 as amended by Law No. 87/2025/QH15.

6. In case of any difficulties in implementing this Resolution, the Minister of Industry and Trade, Ministers of other ministries, or heads of agencies acting on behalf of the Government may issue guidelines for applying this Resolution or carry out professional guidance for implementing related normative legal documents within their jurisdiction in accordance with the law on issuing normative legal documents.