Directive 20/CT-TTg on reform of specialized inspection, reduction, simplification of business conditions

DIRECTIVE

On intensifying the reform of specialized inspection and reduction and simplification of business conditions ^[1]

Over the past time, the Government and Prime Minister have drastically directed ministries and ministerial-level agencies to carry out the reform of specialized inspection and reduction and simplification of business conditions in order to improve the business environment and increase the national competitiveness. Related ministries and agencies have implemented the direction of the Government and Prime Minister and achieved the following initial good results: The Ministry of Industry and Trade submitted to the Government for promulgation Decree No. 08/2018/ND-CP of January 15, 2018, amending a number of decrees concerning business and investment conditions under the state management by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and has slashed 675 business conditions; the Ministry of Health submitted to the Government for promulgation Decree No. 15/2018/ND-CP of February 2, 2018, on food safety management to replace Decree No. 38/2012/ND-CP and has reduced  by 95 percent import shipments subject to food safety inspection, among others.

Yet, some ministries and ministerial-level agencies have not paid due attention to such work. Most of the ministries have only been making statistics, reviewing and proposing plans or drafting legal documents to implement the reduction and simplification plans; some other ministries have proposed their reduction and simplification plans that do not satisfy the requirements of the Government or remain impractical and incomprehensive. As a result, the reform of specialized inspection and reduction and simplification of business conditions have led to no drastic change and not yet facilitated operation of enterprises.

In order to practically reform the specialized inspection and reduction and simplification of business conditions, the Prime Minister instructs:

1. Every minister or head of ministerial-level agency shall consider the reform of specialized inspection and reduction and simplification of business conditions as one of the important solutions to promote growth and liberalize all social resources, and focus on directing the implementation of this work in a drastic and practical manner and strictly handling heads of agencies and units that fail to properly perform their assigned tasks.

2. Before August 15, 2018, ministries and ministerial-level agencies shall complete the promulgation of documents according to their competence or submit them to competent authorities implementation of the plans on reform of specialized inspection and reduction and simplification of business conditions by the method whereby one document revises several documents according to summary procedures.

The documents on implementation of the plans on reform of specialized inspection must satisfy the requirements on reduction and simplification of at least half of the lists of goods and products subject to, and procedures for, specialized inspection; the list of goods and products subject to specialized inspection shall be tagged with HS codes; every exported or imported product or goods item shall be managed by only one ministry or ministerial-level agency or its attached unit; the management method shall be shifted from pre-inspection to post-inspection based on the principles of risk management and assessment of law observance; inspection will not be applied to every goods lot, except for those subject to quarantine.

The documents on implementation of the plans on reduction and simplification of business conditions must satisfy the requirements on reduction and simplification of at least half of business conditions; the plans on reduction and simplification of business conditions must be practical and refrain from consolidating several conditions into one condition or merely changing names/titles.

For draft documents on implementation of the plans on reform of specialized inspection and reduction and simplification of business conditions, the time limit for ministries to give their opinions and the Ministry of Justice to give appraisal opinions must not exceed 7 working days after receiving such draft documents.

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