Emphasising that this is a very important and urgent task that needs to be focused on and completed, the Ministry of Justice has requested the Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court, Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, and Chairpersons of People’s Committees of provinces and cities to urgently direct the review and propose the reduction and simplification of administrative procedures, prepare reports, and send the results to the Ministry of Justice before October 31, 2025.
This proposal aims to implement the direction of General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Central Steering Committee on Science and Technology Development, Innovation and Digital Transformation in Notice No.07-TB/CQTTBCD dated October 15, 2025 and Notice No.386-TB/TW dated October 16, 2025 on the key meeting in October 2025.
Then, on October 22, 2025, the Prime Minister issued Official Dispatch No.201/CD-TTg on focusing on reviewing, reducing, and simplifying administrative procedures based on data, including the requirement to review administrative procedures that can be replaced by data.
According to the report of the Ministry of Justice, implementing Resolution No.66/NQ-CP as of September 22, 2025, ministries and ministerial-level agencies have proactively reduced (abolished) 172 administrative procedures, simplified 718 administrative procedures; reduced (abolished) 222 business conditions.
It is expected that in 2025, 520 administrative procedures will be eliminated, 2,421 administrative procedures will be simplified. The total number of administrative procedures to be reduced and simplified is 2,941/4,888 administrative procedures related to production and business activities (expected to reach 60%); it is expected to reduce 2,263/6,974 business conditions in conditional business lines and industries (expected to reach 32%).
Currently, ministries and ministerial-level agencies are also continuing to review and overcome limitations and shortcomings in decentralization, delegation, and determination of authority to resolve administrative procedures in the implementation of two-tier local administration model.
Ministries, branches, and localities are also accelerating the progress of building national databases and specialised databases; connecting, synchronising, and sharing data between systems to provide online public services throughout the process, as well as reducing and simplifying administrative procedures.
According to Official Dispatch No.201 of the Prime Minister, Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities urgently direct the review of 734 administrative procedures containing one of the 15 types of documents that have information on national databases and specialised databases that can be immediately reduced.
For 668 specific administrative procedures issued by localities, the Chairpersons of the People’s Committee of provinces and cities should direct the review and consultation with competent local authorities to amend and supplement legal documents to reduce or not require individuals and organisations to provide components of the dossier whose information is already in the databases.
The deadline for completion is no later than November 15, 2025 or at the nearest People’s Council meeting.
