The Ministry of Planning and Investment said that focus should be placed on simplifying customs checks as well as deregulation of business prerequisites. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The Ministry of Planningand Investment (MPI) is hastening the effort of cutting business prerequisitesin term of quality to ensure the deregulation to truly benefit firms, MinisterNguyen Chi Dung said.
The minister said that the MPI in the first quarter of this year proposedprerequisites to be removed for 22 business lines and amended for four othersto ensure the consistency with the Law on Fisheries, the Forestry Law and thePress Law.
Evaluation of the quality of the deregulation of business prerequisites whichwere implemented in 2018 and its impacts on the operation of firms are beingcarried out and findings are expected to be reported to the Government in June.
Initial findings regarding the quality of deregulation of businessprerequisites at four ministries showed that just about 30 percent of removedprerequisites really created favourable conditions for firms.
Dung urged relevant ministries and agencies to hasten the effort of reviewingbusiness prerequisites for removing unnecessary and infeasible ones andsimplifying those which remained complicated and unclear.
The MPI has recently made public the draft amendments to the Law on Investmentand the Law on Enterprise which aim at creating favourable, transparent andlevel business climate, improving quality and efficiency in raising investmentresources appropriate to the socio-economic development orientations.
One of the focuses is completing regulations for business lines which requiredprerequisites while cutting and simplifying those which are unnecessary andunreasonable.
In the draft law, the ministry said that a mechanism would be raised to controlthe issuance of new business prerequisites or amendments to existing businessprerequisites to ensure that the effort truly benefits firms.
The draft law said that prerequisites would be removed for business lines whichdid not have direct impacts on national defense, social security and safety,social ethics and community health, which are currently being managed bystandards and which had their product quality evaluated and decided tochoose or not by end-users.
In addition, prerequisites would be removed for the business line of supplyingof public products and services which could be selected and control via bidding.
Specifically, for debt collection service, the ministry said that the legalframework managing this service must be completed to ensure social order,adding that careful consideration should be given on whether this serviceshould be regarded as business line with prerequisites for banned businessline.
Regarding customs checks for import and export, Dung said that there were stillregulations which caused difficulties for firms.
He said that the first quarter of this year did not see significant improvementin the simplification of customs checks.
“Customs checks are still causing difficulties for business operation. The slowreform is increasing costs, wast༺ing time and undermining competitiveness of firms,”he stressed.
