Hanoi (VNA) – The Government convened a meeting onlaw making on August 22, during which Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said manylaws still hamper each other.

He said regulations are a bottleneck in nationaldevelopment, adding that the Government has submitted several legal documentsto the National Assembly and prioritised institutional building in its meetings.However, there remains a huge demand for building, amending and supplementing institutions.

While the Government is making efforts inadministrative reform, some proposed laws create more procedures, raising thealready large number of procedures. Some of their contents fail to match withreality, he added.

The PM said it is important to removebottlenecks so that legal regulations and policies match with reality. Heunderlined the important task that all barriers and difficulties must betackled in a timely manner to provide optimal conditions for production.

At the meeting, Cabinet members commented onnine draft laws, decrees and reports, including the draft law on competition(revised), the draft law on revisions and supplements to some articles of thelaw on environmental protection tax, the draft law on specialadministrative-economic units, and a decree on building a draft securities law(revised).

According to the Ministry of Planning andInvestment, there are 4,284 business requirements and conditions for 243 sectorsand industries under the management of 15 ministries, which are regulated in237 legal normative documents.

Many business conditions overlap whileprocedures are stipulated in different decrees, circulars and decisions, itnoted.

The ministry proposed the complete or partialabolition of business conditions relating to finance, location, productioncapacity, manpower, mode of business and planning.

[PM urges action on excessive business rules]

Surveying enterprises in the industry-trade,transport and science-technology sectors, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce andIndustry (VCCI) asked for the repeal of 56 business conditions and amendmentsto four others in five of the 28 conditional business lines managed by theMinistry of Industry and Trade.

The group also called for 27 conditions to be removed andfour to be revised in four of the 29 business lines managed by the Ministry ofTransport. VCCI also called for 13 conditions to be eliminated and five othersrevised in five of the eight business lines managed by the Ministry of Scienceand Technology.

PM Phuc ordered the relevant ministries toconsider the survey results of VCCI and the Central Institute for EconomicManagement while overhauling unnecessary business conditions. 

He also told them to work with the Ministry ofPlanning and Investment and VCCI to collect enterprises’ opinions to ensureconsensus in amendments.-VNA