Lawmakers reviewed draft amendments aimed at significantly reducing administrative procedures and business conditions in the agriculture and environment sector during their morning sitting within the first extraordinary session of the 16th National Assembly on August 7.

Measurable progress must be achieved by the end of 2026 in reducing administrative procedures, removing institutional bottlenecks and improving legal frameworks across key sectors, Party General Secretary and State President To Lam stressed while chairing the first meeting of the central steering committee for institutional perfection and law enforcement in Ha Noi on June 22.

More than 3,400 administrative procedures and business conditions have been cut or simplified thanks to the Government's decisive measures.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung recently ordered ministries and agencies to immediately cut at least 30% of administrative procedures, 50% of processing time, 50% of compliance costs and 30% of business conditions, while eliminating all unnecessary procedures.

In Document No. 3905/VPCP-CDS, addressed to the ministries of Public Security, Industry and Trade, Agriculture and Environment, Construction, and Justice, the Government Office said that on April 29, the Government issued eight resolutions focused on cutting, decentralising and simplifying administrative procedures and business requirements across sectors managed by 14 ministries and agencies.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment responded to voters regarding the update of the land database and the reduction of administrative procedures related to land for citizens.

The Government has issued a resolution on cutting and simplifying administrative procedures based on data, replacing paper documents in administrative dossiers with corresponding information extracted from databases.

Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh has recently issued an Official Dispatch guiding ministries, branches and localities on reviewing, reducing and simplifying administrative procedures with dossier components replaced by data.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on October 14 inspected the settlement of administrative procedures at the public administrative service centre and reviewed the operation of the two-tier local administration model in the border commune of Bat Mot in the north central province of Thanh Hoa.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed Directive No. 187/CD-TTg on strengthening control, with a focus on the reduction and simplification of administrative procedures and business requirements and implementing administrative procedures that are not dependent on administrative boundaries.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued an official dispatch, instructing ministries, sectors, and localities to intensify the implementation of legal provisions concerning the decentralisation, delegation of power, and delineation of responsibilities within the two-tier local administration system.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who heads the Steering Committee for reviewing and untangling knots in the legal document system, affirmed three objectives in legal review while chairing the committee's sixth meeting in Ha Noi on September 20.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has directed ministries and sectors to urgently develop draft resolutions to submit to the National Assembly and an action plan of the Government to implement the Politburo's newly issued resolutions, aiming to rapidly translate policy directives into practice and help propel the nation into a new era – that of the nation’s rise.

The Ha Noi People’s Committee held a conference on August 5 to review the receipt and handling of administrative procedures in wards and communes.

The Vietnamese Government aims to have all administrative procedures related to businesses handled entirely online by the end of this year, regardless of administrative boundaries, according to Minister and Chairman of the Government Office Tran Van Son.