The government office and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will join hands to evaluate Vietnam’s “Project 30” to simplify administrative formalities.

VietNamNet Bridge – The government office and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will join hands to evaluate Vietnam’s “Project 30” to simplify administrative formalities.

The evaluation of the 2007-2010 project will be grounds for Vietnam to develop administrative and institution reform in 2011-2020 period.

The evaluation will be carried out from June through December 2010.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked the Foreign Ministry to work with the government office and OECD to organize an ASEAN workshop on institutional reform in December, to share results with ASEAN countries and to promote ASEAN cooperation in institutional reform.

Project 30 has been performed throughout Vietnam at four levels, including over 10,000 commune-level agencies, 700 district, 1300 provincial departments, 400 agencies under ministries, with all administrative procedures related to production and life.

Thanks to this project, Vietnam for the first time has set up and made public its national database of administrative formalities at four levels, with more than 5700 administrative procedures, over 9000 regulations and over 100,000 forms.

Project 30 also helped standardize and curtail 10,000 sets of formalities at the commune level and 700 sets at the district level to 63 sets for both levels in 63 provinces and cities in Vietnam.

Chief of the Prime Minister’s working group specializing in administrative reform Ngo Hai Phan confirmed that all ministries and provinces have completed the check of administrative reform and simplified at least 30 percent of existing formalities.

This working group has combined with experts and lawyers to finalize an administrative formality simplification plan that will be made public to collect opinions before being submitted to the Government.

The Government recently issued a Resolution giving priority to simplifying 258 administrative procedures.

“We will submit the plan to simplify the remaining 5000 procedures in the third quarter,” Phan added.

PV