Ministries and local administrations have been told to reduce paperwork by at least 30 percent.

Project 30 will cut down unnecessary administrative formalities.

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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged government offices to strictly implement Project 30, a Government program to simplify official paperwork between 2007 and 2010.

The first phase, which closed on August 15^th, required all ministries and local governments to gather statistics on paperwork.

A total of 58 out of 63 provinces and cities have reported their statistics and the rest are required to complete this task by August 30^th 2009.

In the second phase, starting from September 2009, ministries and local governments must review their administrative procedures to prepare for the third phase.

In this final phase, which will run from May to December 2010, ministries and local governments will simplify administrative procedures based on the statistics and checks conducted in the first and the second phases.

VietNamNet/Dan Tri