Decision No. 82/NQ-CP On the Action Program to implement Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW dated May 25, 2012 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Term XI on continuing to implement Resolution No. 3 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Term X on "Strengthening the leadership of the Party over anti-corruption and thrift work" for the period 2012-2016.

RESOLUTION

On the Action Program to implement Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW dated May 25, 2012 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the third plenary session of the tenth tenure on strengthening the leadership of the Party over anti-corruption and thrift work for the period 2012-2016
Pursuant to the Central Committee's Resolution of the Eleventh Tenure on continuing the implementation of the Resolution of the Third Plenary Session regarding
The third plenary session of the tenth tenure of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Resolution No. 04-NQ/TW dated August 21, 2006 on strengthening the leadership of the Party over anti-corruption and thrift work;
anti-corruption and thrift for the period of 2012 - 2016

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 THE GOVERNMENT

Based on the Law on the Organization of the Government dated December 25, 2001;

Pursuant toBased on Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW dated May 25, 2012 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the third tenure;

Considering the proposal of the Government Inspector General and the Minister of Finance,

hereby promulgates this Decision the Action Program to implement Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW dated May 25, 2012 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the third tenure on continuing to implement Resolution No. 04-NQ/TW dated August 21, 2006 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the tenth tenure on strengthening the leadership of the Party over anti-corruption and thrift work for the period 2012-2016.concerning the classification and determination of state management authority in the field of crop productionof the Ministry of Finance,

RESOLUTION:

Article 1. Members of the Government, Heads of government agencies, Chairpersons of provincial People's Committees under direct central governance shall implement this Resolution.

Article 2. This Resolution takes effect from the date of signature.

Article 3. The Government requests all levels of the Party, State, National Assembly, Supreme People's Court, Supreme People's Procuracy, State Audit Agency, Vietnam Fatherland Front, member organizations, social and occupational organizations, news agencies, and all citizens to participate in implementation, monitoring, and supervision of this Resolution.

the Government requests all levels of Party leadership, State administration, National Assembly, Supreme People's Court, Supreme People's Procuracy, State Audit Agency, Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organizations, social-professional organizations, news agencies, and the entire population to participate in the implementation, inspection, and supervision of this Resolution./.

ACTION PROGRAM

Implementing Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW dated May 25, 2012 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the third tenure on continuing to implement Resolution No. 04-NQ/TW dated August 21, 2006 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the tenth tenure on strengthening the leadership of the Party over anti-corruption and thrift work for the period 2012-2016
(Attached to Resolution No.No. 82/NQ-CP dated December 6, 2012 of the Government"b) In addition to the lists of public services issued according to the provisions of Clause 2, Article 4 of this Decree, specialized agencies under provincial People's Committees shall report to the provincial People's Committee for decision-making on amending, supplementing, or issuing the list of public services funded by the state budget within their jurisdiction and consistent with the local budget capacity within the approved budget by the Provincial People's Assembly, and send it to the Ministry of Finance and relevant ministries and sectors for supervision during implementation."Government)

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On August 21, 2006, the third plenary session of the tenth tenure of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam issued Resolution No. 04-NQ/TW on strengthening the leadership of the Party over anti-corruption and thrift work (hereinafter referred to as Resolution No. 04-NQ/TW of the tenth tenure). The Resolution set forth the goal: "To prevent and gradually curb corruption and waste; achieve significant progress to maintain political stability, develop the economy and society; consolidate the people's trust; build a clean and strong Party and State; and a cadre and civil servant corps with discipline and integrity."

After five years of implementing Resolution No. 04-NQ/TW of the tenth tenure, with the determination and efforts of the entire political system, anti-corruption and thrift work (hereinafter referred to as anti-corruption work) has shown positive changes in both awareness and action, achieving initial results. In some areas, corruption and waste have been gradually curbed. However, anti-corruption and thrift work has not yet met the requirements and goals set. Corruption and waste remain serious, with sophisticated and complex manifestations occurring across various fields, levels, and sectors, causing public concern and posing a major challenge to the Party's leadership and State management.

At the fifth plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the eleventh tenure, Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW dated May 25, 2012 was issued, requiring the strict and comprehensive implementation of the goals, viewpoints, and measures outlined in Resolution No. 04-NQ/TW of the tenth tenure, while also identifying key tasks and measures to significantly improve anti-corruption and thrift work in the future.

To implement Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW of the fifth plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the eleventh tenure, the Government promulgates the Action Program to implement Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW dated May 25, 2012 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the eleventh tenure on continuing to implement Resolution No. 04-NQ/TW dated August 21, 2006 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the tenth tenure on strengthening the leadership of the Party over anti-corruption and thrift work for the period 2012-2016 (hereinafter referred to as the Action Program) with the following main contents:

I. OBJECTIVES AND REQUIREMENTS

1. Objective

Chapter I sets forth the action program aimed at addressing weaknesses and deficiencies, gradually preventing and curbing corruption and waste, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of management and utilization of national resources to successfully achieve the goals of the National Socio-Economic Development Strategy for 2011-2020, the orientations and tasks for national development over the 2011-2015 period as proposed by the Eleventh National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Socio-Economic Development Plan for 2011-2015 adopted by the National Assembly.

The action program is a long-term plan encompassing numerous contents, fields, and main tasks related to anti-corruption and anti-waste efforts during the 2012-2016 period; it serves as a basis for ministries, agencies equivalent to ministries, agencies under the Government, provincial people's committees, centrally governed cities, state economic groups, and state corporations (hereinafter referred to collectively as ministries, sectors, localities), relevant agencies, organizations, and units to develop specific plans and implement measures and tasks for anti-corruption and anti-waste.

2. Requirements

The action program elaborates on the viewpoints, objectives, and solutions outlined in Resolution No. 3 of the Tenth Plenum of the Central Committee and Conclusion No. 5 of the Eleventh Plenum of the Central Committee, meeting the practical requirements of anti-corruption and anti-waste work with a resolute, persistent, continuous, and lawful spirit, contributing to mobilizing the comprehensive strength of the entire political system in anti-corruption and anti-waste efforts.

The content of the action program must be consistent with the legislative program of the National Assembly; other action programs of the Government for the 2011-2016 term; the National Anti-Corruption Strategy until 2020; and the requirements for perfecting legal policies in accordance with the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

II. MAIN TASKS IN ANTI-CORRUPTION WORK

1. Main groups of tasks:

a) Enhancing transparency and openness in policy formulation, lawmaking, and implementation

- Implementing transparency and openness in the activities of agencies, organizations, and units, particularly in policy formulation, lawmaking, and administrative decision-making, focusing on areas prone to negative impacts and corruption; supplementing specific provisions on transparency and openness in the operations of state economic groups and corporations, infrastructure investment, land acquisition and compensation, social welfare, agriculture, rural development, credit, banking, taxation, personnel work, inspection, complaint resolution, anti-corruption, decisions in investigation, prosecution, trial, and enforcement...;

- Amending regulations on state secrets in a direction to narrow the scope of state secrets to the necessary extent; making transparent information about mechanisms, policies, laws, and guiding documents;

- Establishing specific provisions on the accountability of individuals in positions of authority in the performance of public duties; improving mechanisms for citizens, businesses, and social organizations to access information about the activities of agencies, organizations, and units;

- Strengthening inspections to ensure strict compliance with legal provisions on transparency and openness in the activities of agencies, organizations, and units;

- Making transparent and open decisions in investigative, prosecutorial, and judicial activities according to legal provisions;

- Improving mechanisms for supervision and inspection of the implementation of transparency and openness in policy formulation, lawmaking, and implementation.

b) Perfecting the civil service system, strictly implementing mechanisms and policies regarding organizational and personnel work, and enhancing the quality of public service delivery

- Clearly defining division of responsibilities; specifying functions, tasks, and authorities of each organization and individual, eliminating overlapping and gaps in management activities. Defining responsibilities for each position, enhancing the role and responsibility of heads of agencies, organizations, and units, and evaluating officials and civil servants based on their performance in preventing corruption and waste in the agencies, organizations, and units they manage;

- Strictly implementing regulations on ensuring democracy, transparency, and openness in personnel work, especially in recruitment, planning, appointment, transfer, rotation, evaluation, reward, and disciplinary actions for officials; conducting recruitment through examinations, firmly rejecting improper recruitment practices; continuing to study and propose mechanisms for competitive examinations for leadership and managerial positions; establishing specific provisions for transferring, replacing, and handling leaders and managers who engage in corruption and waste, lose credibility, and fail to meet job requirements;

- Amending and supplementing regulations on asset and income disclosure in a direction to gradually expand the scope of disclosure and the range of publicly disclosed asset and income declarations; establishing responsibility for explaining the source of additional assets; implementing payment through accounts for budget-funded expenses for officials and civil servants; studying and formulating regulations on income control for individuals in positions of authority; establishing regulations for personnel management agencies to proactively inspect and verify asset and income declarations of those under their jurisdiction; establishing provisions on the responsibility of officials and civil servants to pay through accounts when consuming large-value items;

- Strengthening inspections and audits of the implementation of legal provisions on the civil service, particularly the code of conduct, prohibited actions, accountability, asset and income disclosure, and the execution of public duties in positions directly dealing with citizen, organizational, and business requests;

- Implementing reasonable salary and bonus policies to gradually establish a salary system that ensures officials, civil servants, and employees can live decently and have a relatively comfortable standard of living.

- Continue to improve and strictly implement the code of conduct for civil servants, especially in matters such as weddings, funerals, housewarming celebrations, assuming new positions, organizing birthdays, receiving academic degrees, titles, commendations...

- Improve the inclusion of anti-corruption content in training programs for cadres and civil servants; strengthen integrity education, enhance awareness and responsibility of the cadre and civil servant team in preventing, detecting, and handling corruption.

c) Improve institutional mechanisms for economic and social management, building a competitive, fair, and transparent business environment

- Amend and supplement laws on land management, natural resources, and minerals towards increasing transparency and openness in planning, land recovery, compensation, land allocation, land leasing, land use change, land valuation, land auctioning, resource exploitation, mineral extraction... Clearly define the powers and responsibilities of various levels of government in representing state ownership and unified management of land, natural resources, and minerals;

- Improve regulations to strictly manage budget revenue and expenditure; public spending, particularly procurement and public investment; complete regulations on establishing centralized procurement centers;

- Improve institutional mechanisms for state-owned enterprise management and enterprises with state capital. Fully implement the rights and responsibilities of state ownership over capital and assets in enterprises; strengthen financial transparency; implement restructuring policies for state-owned enterprises;

- Improve laws on import and export; corporate income tax, value-added tax, and other taxes, fees, and charges in production and business activities; continue implementing and improving individual income tax number registration for taxpayers and dependents to control personal income; promote cashless transactions;

- Improve mechanisms and policies to strictly control credit and investment activities, especially those prone to negative effects and corruption such as lending, guarantees, financial leasing, financial investment, real estate, entrusted lending, entrusted investment...;

- Continue to vigorously reform administrative procedures towards simplicity, transparency, and fairness in transactions between state agencies and businesses, citizens, particularly in areas such as taxation, customs, land management, natural resource and mineral management, public services, state asset management, finance, banking, investment planning, project review and approval processes, socio-economic projects;

- Build and improve mechanisms for enterprises to accurately and honestly record economic transactions in production and business activities and update them into the tax authority's database; implement mandatory periodic audit systems for all types of enterprises;

d) Continue to improve institutional mechanisms and strengthen inspection, supervision, auditing, investigation, prosecution, and adjudication work

- Improve legal provisions on anti-corruption, State Audit Office towards more detailed definitions of its functions and tasks; improve Vietnam's auditing standards to align with international practices; enhance the quality and effectiveness of auditing activities and the implementation of State Audit Office recommendations; emphasize the responsibility of auditing organizations and auditors regarding the accuracy and objectivity of audit reports;

- Strengthen the organizational structure of specialized agencies responsible for anti-corruption; clearly define their authorities, functions, and tasks to ensure relative independence suitable for the nature and characteristics of anti-corruption activities; improve coordination mechanisms among specialized anti-corruption agencies in receiving, processing information, complaints about corruption, investigating and handling corruption cases; enhance modern technical equipment;

- Improve judicial appraisal regulations, especially financial appraisals, construction quality appraisals... to promptly and effectively handle corruption and wasteful acts;

- Study and apply necessary measures to eliminate the ability of suspected corrupt and wasteful individuals to evade detection, making it difficult for inspection, supervision, auditing, and investigative agencies to operate;

- Amend criminal law towards heavier monetary penalties, focusing on asset recovery measures when dealing with corruption; exempt or reduce other penalties for those who have proactively reported and mitigated the consequences of their corrupt actions. Amend the Criminal Code Chapter XXI, Section A on corruption-related offenses towards specific quantification to facilitate corruption case resolution;

- Strengthen inspections, audits in fields such as land management and use, natural resources, minerals; investment and public procurement; budget revenue and expenditure; state asset management; banking and credit; personnel organization work; state-owned economic groups and corporations;

- Regularly monitor the implementation of transparency and integrity in the cadre, civil servant, and public servant team, especially leaders of agencies, organizations, units, and in agencies with anti-corruption functions. Promptly and strictly handle according to law acts of corruption and those shielding corruption, obstructing anti-corruption efforts;

- Enhance the supervisory activities of People's Councils at all levels over local anti-corruption activities, primarily supervising the operations of agencies with anti-corruption functions;

- Vigorously train and improve professional skills, political qualities, and professional ethics for cadres and civil servants engaged in inspection, supervision, auditing, investigation, prosecution, and adjudication work;

- Study to develop reasonable incentive policies and systems, while strengthening responsibility mechanisms and strictly punishing acts of corruption by officials and civil servants in specialized agencies against corruption.

d) Enhance awareness and promote the role of the entire society.

- Promote and enhance the role and responsibility of society in anti-corruption efforts, particularly the role of the Fatherland Front, political and social organizations, occupational and community organizations, communities, and the people in detecting and combating corruption and waste.

- Vigorously diversify forms of propaganda to raise public awareness about the manifestations and harms of corruption and the responsibilities of society in anti-corruption work; establish mechanisms for the active and proactive participation of the people in anti-corruption work; promptly commend and reward exemplary models in anti-corruption efforts and actively protect whistleblowers against corruption.

- Leverage the role of the press in anti-corruption work; ensure timely and accurate information provision to news agencies regarding policies, laws, results of anti-corruption work, and information on corruption cases; improve and promote the implementation of professional ethics rules and integrity training for journalists and editors.

- Leverage the role of businesses, business associations, and industry associations in anti-corruption efforts through continued development and implementation of healthy, non-corrupt business cultures; cooperate with competent state authorities to prevent and promptly detect extortion and bribery by officials and civil servants.

- Create conditions for business associations and industry associations to participate in policy and law formulation, and propose amendments to address loopholes in mechanisms and policies that create opportunities for corruption.

e) International cooperation, asset recovery, technical assistance, and information exchange in accordance with the United Nations Convention against Corruption (Convention).

- Review the legal system related to mutual legal assistance and anti-corruption; supplement provisions on extradition, criminal and civil mutual legal assistance, transfer of convicted persons, execution of sentences, and transfer of criminal cases; cooperate in law enforcement and joint investigations of corruption. Study negotiations and expand bilateral and multilateral mutual legal assistance agreements in the field of anti-corruption with Convention member states.

- Study and propose conditions for international investigation cooperation: Develop regulations and determine the content of agreements and arrangements with countries to ensure coordination or independent, proactive investigation and reporting of results; continue to study and propose the capabilities and conditions of Vietnam to apply joint investigation.

- Study the application of special investigative techniques: Study and learn special investigative methods from other countries; regulate the management of the application of special investigations according to strict procedures for certain necessary cases.

- Study and propose the implementation of civil enforcement in foreign court criminal judgments; international cooperation in recovering corrupt assets; create a good foundation for Vietnam in the second cycle of the Convention's evaluation process concerning Chapter II on preventive measures and Chapter V on asset recovery.

- Organize and implement the coordination regulation for the implementation of the Convention on publicity and dissemination; review and perfect the legal framework; mutual legal assistance; information exchange; technical assistance; participate in the mechanism for evaluating the implementation of the Convention; organize and participate in conferences and perform relevant diplomatic procedures related to the Convention.

2. Specific tasks:

Specific tasks in anti-corruption work to implement the Central Committee's Resolution No. 5, Eleventh Tenure on continuing to implement the Third Plenum Resolution of the Tenth Central Committee on Strengthening Party Leadership over Anti-Corruption and Waste Efforts, are also specific tasks for the second phase of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy until 2020 and the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

The contents of specific tasks, organizational responsibilities for implementation, and deadlines for completion of each task are detailed in Appendix A.

III. MAIN TASKS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ECONOMY AND WASTE CONTROL

1. Task Content

a) Continue to vigorously and regularly carry out publicity, dissemination, and legal education; resolutions, conclusions, and directives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Politburo

- The Ministry of Information and Communications shall take the lead and coordinate with ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government-affiliated agencies, provincial and municipal people's committees under direct central jurisdiction, state-owned corporations, companies, the Fatherland Front, and mass organizations to develop content, plans, and regularly implement publicity and dissemination of legal regulations, resolutions, conclusions, and directives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Politburo on economy and waste control (referred to as THTK, CLP) nationwide. Open special sections on the Government Portal and the Ministry of Finance's website, encourage ministries, sectors, localities to open special sections on THTK, CLP on their websites and regularly update information on their own THTK, CLP work.

- News agencies and the press shall continue to vigorously and regularly disseminate the Party's viewpoints and policies on economy and waste control via mass media; continue to implement and launch campaigns to follow President Ho Chi Minh's moral example on economy and waste control, creating a widespread movement among all cadres, employees, and workers in administrative and public service units. Increase the duration and content of information on effective solutions to economy and waste control, positive factors, and exemplary models with achievements in economy and waste control; promptly criticize and denounce agencies, organizations, and individuals who violate laws on economy and waste control, causing waste, and extravagant lifestyles in society.

- Authorities and organizations must incorporate tasks related to the dissemination and popularization of the Party's viewpoints and policies, as well as legal regulations on thrift, economy, and anti-waste into their annual work programs and plans, ensuring that all cadres, civil servants, public officials, and employees within these authorities and organizations fully understand the Party's viewpoints and policies and clearly comprehend the legal regulations on thrift, economy, and anti-waste.

b) Enhance the effectiveness of state management for thrift, economy, and anti-waste

- Review and amend the Law on Thrift, Economy, and Anti-Waste and its detailed implementing regulations to further specify the content and tasks of thrift, economy, and anti-waste in each field of state management; enhance the role and responsibility of leaders of agencies, organizations, and units in the implementation of thrift, economy, and anti-waste; establish mechanisms and policies to encourage material incentives for organizations and individuals with achievements in thrift, economy, and anti-waste; improve the system of sanctions for violations of laws on thrift, economy, and anti-waste and actions causing wastage of state funds, assets, and natural resources.

- Study and promulgate legal regulations on public investment, procurement, planning, etc., to facilitate infrastructure development. Amend and supplement legal regulations on land management and use, natural resources, and minerals towards increasing transparency in planning, land recovery, compensation, land allocation, land leasing, land valuation, land auctioning, resource exploitation, and mineral extraction. Promptly complete regulations to strictly manage and control state budget revenue and expenditure, especially public spending, including procurement and public investment, and regular expenses.

- Continue to review and study to issue new, amend, and supplement standards, norms, and systems in managing and using the state budget, state funds, and assets; in training, managing, and utilizing labor and working hours in the public sector; in managing, exploiting, and using land and natural resources, serving as a basis for implementing and evaluating the results of thrift, economy, and anti-waste. Improve technical quality standards for exported and imported goods to strictly control and prevent the importation of low-quality goods, outdated technical standards, environmentally hazardous goods, and limit the export of unprocessed natural resources and minerals.

- Vigorously reform administrative procedures towards simplification, transparency, and openness to reduce time and costs associated with administrative procedures for citizens and businesses.

- Study and include compliance with legal regulations on thrift, economy, and anti-waste and the results of thrift, economy, and anti-waste in the criteria for evaluating annual performance of agencies and organizations, as well as leaders and each civil servant; serve as a basis for considering and evaluating cadres and civil servants when planning and appointing leadership positions. Establish specific provisions for transferring, replacing, and strictly handling cadres and managers who cause waste in their assigned agencies, organizations, or fields.

Strengthen inspection and supervision over agencies and organizations using state budgets, state funds, and assets; agencies and organizations managing and exploiting natural resources; state-owned enterprises. Intensify inspections and evaluations of the efficiency of managing and using state budget funds, state funds, and assets, focusing on several areas such as land management and use, natural resource management, implementation of national target programs and projects funded by the state budget and foreign aid, management and use of capital and assets at state-owned enterprises. Annually, state management agencies and state audit agencies must conduct inspections and supervisions on thrift, economy, and anti-waste for agencies and organizations under their direct management and in their assigned fields of state management; promptly and strictly handle according to the law any organizations and individuals who violate and cause waste, while commending and rewarding those with achievements in thrift, economy, and anti-waste.

Thrift, economy, and anti-waste in managing and using state budget funds

- Strictly implement the provisions of the State Budget Law in all stages: preparation, examination, approval, allocation, management, use, control, and settlement of state budget funds. Vigorously and effectively implement government resolutions and prime minister directives on economic and social management and state budget management. Summarize, evaluate, and perfect the information management system for the state budget and treasury to modernize state management from planning, budget execution, reporting, and enhancing the responsibility of budget management agencies and beneficiaries, thereby increasing transparency in public financial management.

- Strengthen the management of state revenue collection, prevent revenue loss, and resolutely recover overdue taxes, particularly revenues related to land, natural resources, imported goods, and transfer pricing. Strive to increase state budget revenue to ensure budget balance for priority expenditures on social welfare policies and debt repayment. Closely manage extrabudgetary financial funds, while creating a legal framework to increase revenue for these funds and ensure revenue-expenditure balance.

- Strictly control the procurement, use of assets, work equipment, and means of transportation at state agencies and public service units. Make full and effective use of existing assets, work equipment, and means of transportation, only investing in new construction and procurement when truly necessary and ensuring compliance with standards, quotas, and regulations. Firmly recover and handle according to regulations cases where assets, work equipment, and means of transportation are equipped in violation of standards, quotas, and regulations. Implement thrift and minimize expenses from state budget funds, especially electricity, water, telephone, office supplies, fuel, festival costs, ceremonial events, conferences, seminars, domestic and international travel, etc.;

- Reform the operational mechanisms of state agencies and public service units towards increasing autonomy and self-responsibility of agencies and units tied to ordering mechanisms and specific assignments, promoting socialization of certain types of public services according to Conclusion No. 37-TB/TW dated May 26, 2011 of the Politburo;

- Strengthen management, inspection, auditing, and supervision of the use of funds for implementing national and local target programs, projects; social welfare policies, programs, and projects; research and development funding; ensure timely, purposeful, targeted, and effective implementation;

- Continue to review, supplement, and perfect legal sanctions for violations related to the management and use of state budgets, ensuring strict enforcement of laws;

- Seriously implement transparency and democracy in financial budgeting, final accounting, asset procurement, basic construction investment according to legal provisions on financial disclosure regulations for all levels of state budgets, budgetary units, organizations supported by the budget, basic construction investment projects using state budget funds, state enterprises, funds sourced from the budget, and funds from people's contributions;

d) THTK, CLP in managing investment in construction projects funded by the state budget and state-owned money and assets

- Implement a decentralized management mechanism for investment aimed at ensuring economic and social efficiency nationwide, by sector, region, and locality in the short, medium, and long term. At the same time, ensure the principle that the decision-making level must identify the source of capital and guarantee the capital before making a specific project investment decision. Enhance the role of state management by ministries and central agencies in directly managing certain fields such as resource exploitation, minerals, casinos, electronic games with rewards, important large-scale projects, those using significant land, resources, electricity, water, and having a major impact on the environment;

- Adjust and supplement investment structure mechanisms towards ensuring rationality, effectiveness, prioritization, focus, and key points. Concentrate state and other resources on developing synchronized infrastructure. Review and arrange the list of state investment projects according to priority investment targets; allocate funds for completed and handed-over projects, effective works, key projects, and urgent projects. Do not prolong the implementation period of annual state budget and government bond investment funds. Firmly reallocate or recover investment funds for delayed, ineffective projects, and those misallocating and misusing funds;

- Rectify planning, construction, investment, and management of investment capital from planning to management; pay attention to overall and sectoral planning work quality to ensure consistency and integration between regional, local, sectoral, and field plans, avoiding overlap and waste. Strictly manage according to plans, particularly in areas such as infrastructure investment, airports, seaports, industrial zones, economic zones, and economic development planning;

- Ministries, sectors, localities, state corporations, state companies, central agencies of the Fatherland Front, and mass organizations regularly review annual investment project lists, firmly halt and reduce investment projects not included in approved plans; projects without clear or ineffective investment benefits; projects without sufficient funding sources; projects failing technical standards and construction management regulations. Vigorously implement Directive No. 1792/CT-TTg dated October 15, 2011 of the Prime Minister on strengthening management of state budget and government bond investments;

- Develop and issue a three-year investment plan for 2013-2015; improve systems to create a favorable environment for attracting and effectively utilizing investment capital. Establish controls over projects using state funds, ensuring strict adherence to regulations on the use of domestically produced goods, materials, and equipment;

- Amend, supplement, and perfect technical standards, procedures, and norms in construction investment from design, bidding, construction, supervision to completion acceptance of investment construction projects, ensuring project quality;

- Strictly control the issuance and management of permits for investment projects using significant energy and resources; do not issue new permits, firmly revoke permits for projects wastefully using energy and resources, causing environmental pollution;

- Strengthen inspection, auditing, and supervision of projects using state budget funds. Promote final accounting of investment funds;

đ) THTK, CLP in managing and using public assets of agencies and organizations using state budget funds and public welfare facilities

- Accelerate the progress of restructuring state-owned real estate, especially reviewing the system of administrative offices of central government agencies in provinces and centrally-administered cities; effectively implement Directive No. 1073/CT-TTg dated July 5, 2011 of the Prime Minister on strengthening management and modernizing administrative offices at local levels towards concentration. Conduct inspections and reviews of land areas, office premises, and public service housing nationwide to allocate and utilize them efficiently and according to regulations. Do not allocate additional land or plan new construction of office premises until the rearrangement and utilization of existing areas meet the standards.

- Consolidate, improve, and operate the National Database on State Assets effectively. Study amendments and supplements to mechanisms, policies, standards, and norms for the management and utilization of office premises for state agencies and public service units; regulations on managing and using state-owned land and buildings as diplomatic assets. Develop mechanisms and policies to manage and utilize infrastructure assets efficiently.

- Strengthen supervision and inspection of the management and utilization of office premises and public service housing by agencies and organizations funded by the state budget and those responsible for managing, operating, and utilizing assets and facilities serving public welfare, ensuring their proper and efficient use.

e) Supervision and control in the management, exploitation, and utilization of natural resources

- Review, amend, supplement, and perfect mechanisms and policies on the management, exploitation, and utilization of natural resources, focusing on mineral resources, land, forest resources, water resources, and sectors significantly impacting the environment, ensuring revenue for the state budget, legitimate benefits for citizens, and environmental protection goals.

- Enhance inspection, supervision, and monitoring of land allocation and usage for investment projects, enterprises, organizations, and individuals. Resolutely reclaim land that is improperly used according to laws on land, wastefully used, or inefficiently utilized. Severely handle acts of speculation, price manipulation, profiteering, and violations of laws on land management and usage. Promptly resolve complaints and denunciations related to land; severely punish cases violating laws on land management and usage.

- Strictly control the issuance of permits for natural resource and mineral exploitation; do not extend, supplement, or issue new permits for enterprises that fail to meet legal requirements for environmental protection. Severely handle cases violating laws on natural resource and mineral management and exploitation.

- Synchronously and effectively implement measures to protect and sustainably develop forest resources; strengthen the protection of special-use forests and protective forests; rapidly develop productive forests. Encourage people's participation in planting, protecting, and exploiting forests reasonably and efficiently. Severely handle cases violating laws on forest management and protection.

g) Supervision and control in training, management, and utilization of labor, working hours in the public sector

- Vigorously and effectively implement the Overall Program on Administrative Reform of the State for the period 2011-2020, with a focus on reforming the civil servant and public service systems. Supplement and improve the national database on administrative procedures. Issue and pilot the application of a set of indicators for tracking and evaluating administrative reform throughout the entire state administrative system. Concentrate resources to ensure the effective implementation of simplification of administrative procedures at ministries, agencies, and localities according to approved plans by the Government. Strengthen control over administrative procedures. Promote the application of information technology in handling administrative procedures and processing tasks of state agencies to enhance efficiency.

- Implement the determination of job positions and the structure of civil servants by rank in administrative agencies and the structure of public service personnel by field of activity in public service units. Study, build, and publish mandatory standards on legal knowledge for cadres and civil servants in the state administrative system; improve the system of position standards for civil servants and public service personnel and organize competitive examinations for promotion. Continue to pilot policies for identifying, attracting, arranging, and rewarding talented individuals in public service. Review, arrange, and utilize cadres, civil servants, and public service personnel in state agencies and public service units in accordance with their professional capabilities and fields of study; create conditions for cadres and civil servants to fully utilize their strengths.

- Strengthen inspection, supervision, evaluation of the performance of each agency, organization, and individual civil servant; promptly and strictly implement reward and punishment mechanisms for assigned tasks.

- Accelerate the implementation of salary system reforms, housing, and oppose egalitarianism and privilege; link this with reducing staff numbers and restructuring the cadre and civil servant workforce.

- Effectively implement the National Human Resources Development Plan for the period 2011-2020, gradually improving the quality of education and training at all levels, closely linked to the needs of industries, regions, and society as a whole. Study and build solutions for socialization of education and training in the new period to serve the Socio-Economic Development Strategy for 2011-2020 and the Socio-Economic Development Plan for 2011-2015. Build and implement the Project on Developing High-Level Human Resources and Intellectual Teams.

- Review and assess the implementation of vocational training activities, study solutions to address new emerging issues. Amend and supplement the planning for the development of vocational education networks by trade and level of training to meet the demand for high-quality technical human resources for the domestic labor market and labor export. Issue and implement the Vocational Training Development Strategy 2011-2020:

b) Auditing, controlling state capital and assets management and use in enterprises

- Continue to improve the institutional framework, mechanisms, policies, and management models for state-owned enterprises towards separating administrative functions of the state from the representative function of state ownership at enterprises; effectively perform the representative function of state ownership for state-owned enterprises; take appropriate measures to strengthen financial discipline and enforce laws within state-owned enterprises;

- Continue to improve the organizational structure of enterprises that continue to be fully state-owned according to the provisions of the Enterprise Law. Study and implement reforms in corporate governance mechanisms. Vigorously implement the Project "Reorganizing State-Owned Enterprises, with Focus on State-Owned Groups and Corporations during the Period 2011-2015" approved by the Prime Minister;

- Strengthen inspection, examination, and review of investment projects of economic groups, corporations, and state companies. Resolutely cut and eliminate unnecessary and inefficient projects; focus investments on core production and business sectors, not venture outside these sectors, especially in finance, insurance, real estate, and securities. Develop plans and programs to divest from non-core business investments according to appropriate timelines. Implement cost reduction measures for enterprise management in line with government guidelines;

- Strictly comply with government regulations on guarantees, enhance monitoring to ensure proper and effective use of funds. Study and implement solutions to address difficulties faced by businesses such as supporting businesses to reduce inventory, access bank loans to boost production and business development, maintain growth and development; promote exports, open up markets; limit imports of consumer goods and products already produced domestically; develop the domestic market, stimulate consumption;

- Continue to organize and implement appropriate measures based on the capacity and conditions of each locality to stabilize prices, while strengthening supervision to ensure that enterprises using preferential loans for price stabilization programs use them for their intended purposes and achieve effectiveness;

i) Auditing, controlling production and consumption by the people

- Continue to effectively implement the mass movement "All People United to Build a Cultural Life"; manage festivals and cultural and sports activities well, ensuring thriftiness and public security; vigorously promote the campaign "Vietnamese Preferentially Use Vietnamese Products";

- Implement the roadmap for managing and ensuring transparency in information about prices under a market mechanism with state regulation, linked to social welfare policies and economic and social development goals in each period; strengthen market and price monitoring, especially for essential goods for production and daily life; prevent speculation and unreasonable price increases, particularly during peak seasons and holidays. Ensure supply of essential goods in remote areas, border regions, islands, especially during difficult times, natural disasters, and epidemics;

- Closely control the import of goods, prevent and strictly handle the import of low-quality goods causing environmental pollution and adversely affecting people's health; limit imports of non-essential goods and those already produced domestically and meeting quality standards. Review, adjust, supplement, and announce lists of non-essential goods, domestically produced goods, and imported products potentially posing safety risks to production and daily life;

- Review, amend, and supplement regulations on electricity production, supply, and consumption; establish mechanisms and policies to encourage energy conservation and efficiency in production and consumption;

- Focus on addressing environmental protection issues in craft villages, industrial zones, and urban areas. Strengthen inspections, audits, detection, and strict handling of violations of environmental protection laws;

- Enhance propaganda, dissemination, and effective implementation of laws protecting consumers; at the same time, strictly handle cases of violation;

2. Specific tasks

The specific contents of the tasks, responsibilities of organizations implementing them, and deadlines for completing each task are detailed in Section B of the attached Appendix.

IV. IMPLEMENTATION

1. Party committees at all levels, party organizations, governments at all levels, heads of agencies, organizations, and units must proactively and positively highlight their roles and responsibilities in anti-corruption and waste, always recognizing anti-corruption and waste as a key and ongoing task that requires focused leadership and direction; they must commit to integrity, set examples, courageously criticize and self-criticize, and resolutely combat corruption and waste.

2. Ministers, Heads of Ministries equivalent to Ministries, Heads of Government Agencies, Chairmen of Provincial People's Committees directly under the Central Government, State Economic Groups, and State Corporations 91 shall, based on their assigned functions and tasks and the tasks outlined in the Action Program, be responsible for developing specific annual plans for implementation, while focusing on directing, enhancing supervision, and urging the implementation according to the Action Program and the plans of each ministry, sector, and locality.

3. Ministries, sectors, localities shall report on the implementation results of the Action Program according to three-month and annual statistical periods to the Government; publicly disclose reports in accordance with the provisions of the law, while sending reports to the Government Inspectorate and the Ministry of Finance for consolidation. During the process of organizing and implementing the Action Program, in cases where specific tasks need to be amended or supplemented, ministries, agencies, and localities shall proactively propose to the Government through the Government Inspectorate regarding anti-corruption content and through the Ministry of Finance regarding thrift and economy content for consolidation and reporting to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision.

4. Each ministry, sector, locality, each agency, organization shall assign a unit to be responsible for inspecting, monitoring, urging, and consolidating the situation and results of thrift and economy, anti-waste activities of their respective ministries, sectors, localities, agencies, organizations; establish and publicly announce telephone numbers, email boxes (hotlines) to receive, handle, and promptly respond to all information and reflections on violations of laws, thrift and economy, and anti-waste activities of organizations and individuals. Regular reports on thrift and economy activities of ministries, sectors, and localities must reflect the measures of thrift and economy that have been implemented and the results achieved; the identities of agencies, organizations, and individuals who have been found to violate laws and waste, along with the results of handling violations and remedying consequences (if any).

5. The Government Inspectorate shall take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and relevant ministries, sectors, localities, agencies to monitor, urge, and inspect the implementation of this Action Program, regularly report and make recommendations to the Government and the Prime Minister on necessary measures to ensure the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Action Program. By the end of 2016, conduct a mid-term review and comprehensive assessment of the implementation of the Action Program and develop specific plans for the next phase.

6. The Ministry of Information and Communications shall take the lead and coordinate with the Government Inspectorate, the Ministry of Finance, the Central Propaganda Department, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, political-social organizations, and relevant ministries, agencies, and localities to effectively carry out information and communication work, clearly demonstrating the determination of the Party and State in anti-corruption and thrift activities, promoting the spirit of effort from all sectors, levels, agencies, organizations, units, business communities, and the people to achieve the set anti-corruption and thrift goals.

7. Ministries, sectors, localities shall organize monitoring and evaluating the situation and implementation of anti-corruption work based on the criteria for assessing the anti-corruption situation and effectiveness issued by Circular No. 11/2011/TT-TTCP dated November 9, 2011 of the Government Inspectorate, in accordance with the characteristics and conditions of their respective ministries, sectors, and localities; intensify practical surveys and sociological investigations on corruption situations and the results of anti-corruption efforts; survey, measure, and evaluate the negative impacts of corruption on economic and social development.

8. Study and build a system of criteria for evaluating the results of thrift and economy

a) Ministries, sectors, localities, state-owned corporations, and companies shall implement research towards building and issuing criteria as a basis for evaluating the results of thrift and economy activities based on their assigned functions and management scope;

b) In 2013, ministries at the level of ministries and equivalent agencies shall be responsible for building and issuing evaluation criteria for the results of thrift and economy activities in their respective fields of state management, serving as a basis for summarizing and evaluating the results of thrift and economy activities nationwide;

c) Provincial People's Committees directly under the central government shall be responsible for researching, building, and issuing evaluation criteria for the results of thrift and economy activities in production and consumption by the people in their localities, serving as a basis for monitoring, summarizing, and evaluating the results of thrift and economy activities in their areas;

d) State-owned corporations, total companies, and companies shall be responsible for researching, building, and issuing evaluation criteria for the results of thrift and economy activities in capital management, asset management, cost, price, labor, working hours, serving as a basis for evaluating the results and efficiency of capital and asset utilization;

đ) Criteria for evaluating the results of thrift and economy activities issued by ministries, sectors, localities, state-owned corporations, and companies must ensure scientific accuracy, comply with the provisions of the Law on Thrift and Economy, and be suitable to actual circumstances, customs, and traditions in localities;

e) Agencies and organizations shall base their evaluations of the results of thrift and economy activities in their own agencies and organizations on the criteria issued by competent authorities;

9. Funding for the implementation of the Action Program:

a) Ministries, agencies at the level of ministries, agencies under the Government, other central-level agencies, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, and mass organizations shall allocate funds from their annual budget estimates approved by the competent authority to implement the tasks of the Program. Encouragement is given to mobilizing additional funding sources outside the central budget in accordance with the law to implement the Program;

b) People's Committees at all levels shall allocate funds from their annual local budgets to implement the Program, subject to approval by the People's Councils at the same level in accordance with the State Budget Law;

c) State agencies implementing self-management and self-responsibility for personnel quotas and administrative management expenses pursuant to Decree No. 130/2005/NĐ-CP dated October 17, 2005; public service units implementing self-management and self-responsibility for task performance, organizational structure, personnel quotas, and finance pursuant to Decree No. 43/2006/NĐ-CP dated April 25, 2006 shall allocate funds from their self-managed resources to implement the Program;

d) State-owned corporations, total companies, and companies shall allocate funds to implement the Action Program, which shall be accounted for as part of the company's management costs./.