THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 13/2001/QD-TTg
Hanoi, January 18, 2001
 
DECISION
PROMULGATING THE GOVERNMENT’S 2001 ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM PROGRAM
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the September 30, 1992 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the December 29, 2000 Resolution No. 19/2000/NQ-CP on the Government’s regular meeting in December 2000;
At the proposal of the Steering Committee for Administrative Reform of the Government,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To promulgate together with this Decision the Government’s 2001 program for administrative reform.
Article 2.- This Decision takes effect from the date of its signing.
Article 3.- The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the Government, the presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to implement this Decision.
The Steering Committee for Administrative Reform of the Government shall assist the Prime Minister in directing and inspecting the implementation of this program.
 
 
PRIME MINISTER




Phan Van Khai
 
THE GOVERNMENTS 2001 PROGRAM ON ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM
(Issued together with the Prime Ministers Decision No. 13/2001/QD-TTg of January 18, 2001)
In 2000, in furtherance of the Resolution of the 7th plenum of the Party Central Committee (VIIIth Congress) and Decision No. 207/1999/QD-TTg of October 25, 1999 of the Prime Minister, the administrative reform was carried out more actively and crowned with a number of considerable results. Manifest results were seen in the reforms in economic institutions, prominently were the promulgation of the Enterprise Law and the organization of the implementation thereof, the simplification of administrative procedures, the cancellation of unnecessary permits and the removal of obstacles to the peoples production and business activities. A number of Government agencies and many inter-branch consulting and/or coordinating agencies were re-arranged. The recruitment, management and employment of public employees according to the Ordinance on Public Employees have gradually put into order, the training and fostering of public employees were given more attention. The revision of the functions, tasks, organizational structures and payrolls of the ministries, central branches and People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities according to the Government’s plan revealed the central and local administrative agencies demand and capability for the adjustment of their State management functions in a new situation as well as numerous overlappings in their functions, tasks and competence, thereby to work out plans for apparatus restructuring and payroll streamline in the spirit of the Resolution of the plenum of the Party Central Committee.
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