THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 121/2003/QD-TTg
Hanoi, June 11, 2003
 DECISION
APPROVING THE RESEARCH PROGRAM TO DETERMINE THE ROLES, FUNCTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES OF AGENCIES WITHIN THE STATE ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM, STAGE I (2003-2005)
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 136/2001/QD-TTg of September 17, 2001 approving the master program on State administrative reform for the 2001-2010 period;
At the proposal of the Minister of the Interior,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the research program to determine the roles, functions and organizational structures of agencies within the State administrative system, stage I (2003-2005).
Article 2.- This Decision takes effect 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette.
Article 3.- The Minister of the Interior, the Minister-Director of the Government's Office and the other ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the Government and the presidents of the People's Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to implement this Decision.
 
PRIME MINISTER




Phan Van Khai
 
RESEARCH PROGRAM TO DETERMINE THE ROLES, FUNCTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES OF AGENCIES WITHIN THE STATE ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM
(Promulgated together with the Prime Minister's Decision No. 121/2003/QD-TTg of June 11, 2003)
I. CONTEXT OF THE PROGRAM

Over the past time, the Government and the Prime Minister have focused on directing the administrative reform in general and the reform of the organization of the administrative apparatus from the central to local levels in materializing the resolutions of the 3rd and 8th plenums of the Party Central Committee, VIIth Congress, and the 3rd, the 6th (second session), and the 7th plenums of the Party Central Committee, VIIIth Congress, in particular. After the implementation of each of the above-said resolutions, the State administrative apparatus has been step by step streamlined and operated more effectively, contributing an important part to the cause of national renewal and socio-economic development.