| THE GOVERNMENT ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ---------- |
| No. 02/2008/NQ-CP | Hanoi, January 9, 2008 |
RESOLUTION
ON MAJOR MEASURES OF DIRECTING AND GUIDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2008 SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND STATE BUDGET ESTIMATE
The year 2008 is a pivotal year of the 2006 2010 five-year socio-economic development plan. The results of implementation of the 2008 socio-economic development plan will serve as a precondition for the successful achievement of the objectives of the 2006-2010 five-year socio-economic development plan and the 2001-2010 ten-year socio-economic development strategy.
The entire Party, all the people, all branches and levels and enterprises of all economic sectors should strive their best to fruitfully implement the 2008 socio-economic development plan and state budget. At the same time, comprehensive economic, social, environmental protection and sustainable development solutions must be realized in a coordinated manner, of which key ones are to achieve the GDP growth rate of 8.5-9% or higher; take the initiative in implementing global economic integration commitments and roadmaps; and step up administrative reform and anti-corruption efforts. The Government requests ministries, branches and localities to concentrate on implementing the following major.measures:
I. ACTIVELY IMPROVING THE INVESTMENT AND BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, ACCELERATING ECONOMIC GROWTH, RAISING THE QUALITY, EFFICIENCY, COMPETITIVENESS AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ECONOMY
1. Further improving the legal system
a/ Ministries and branches shall speed up and improve the drafting of legal documents. Functional agencies and concerned organizations shall increase their coordination in the process of formulating draft laws and ordinances, well completing the 2008 law- and ordinance-making program already adopted at the 2nd session of the XIIth National Assembly. The Ministry of Justice shall coordinate with the Government Office in urging and supervising the formulation of legal documents to ensure the progress of formulation and quality of these documents.
b/ Responsible agencies shall strive to issue guiding documents as soon as the National Assembly promulgates laws and ordinances. The Government shall sirictly abide by the regulation that it will not examine draft laws and ordinances which are not accompanied with guiding documents. Efforts will be concentrated on formulating and promulgating adequate documents to guide the laws and ordinances which have taken effect.
c/ Ministries, agencies and administrations at all levels should focus on reviewing promulgated legal documents falling within their competence; amend, supplement or cancel regulations which are no longer appropriate, especially those concerning dossiers and procedures related to land, investment, business registration, tax identification number registration, and enterprise dissolution and bankruptcy; and concurrently intensify the supervision, inspection, detection and prompt handling of problems and constraints in the course of implementation. The Ministry of Justice shall coordinate with other concerned ministries and National Assembly agencies in working out a scheme on general review of the Vietnamese legal system, report it to the Government for submission to the National Assembly for comment, and organize its implementation in 2009-2010.
2. Creating a favorable environment for investment and business activities of enterprises of all economic sectors
a/ The Ministry of Investment and Planning shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with ministries and branches in, submitting to the Government and the Prime Minister for promulgation the following mechanisms and policies, and perform the following tasks as well:
- Raising the quality and accelerating the elaboration, evaluation and approval of plannings to ensure that plannings satisfy set development orientations, serve as the basis for providing investment guidance for all economic sectors and that socio-economic development plannings harmonize all land, capital, technology, labor, market and other elements.
- Modifying, supplementing and completing mechanisms of corporate governance and state management of state enterprises where the State holds 100% of their capital or dominant shares: perfecting legal foundations for state economic groups and their management and operation mechanisms.
- Encouraging the strong development of various forms of non-state economy.
- Increasing the supervision of the implementation of the law on collective economy; effectively implementing policies on support for and continued renovation and development of collective economy.
- Supporting the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises.
- Strongly attracting foreign direct investment, especially in big projects, transport infrastructure projects and hi-tech product production projects.
- Improving the legal framework to facilitate offshore investment by Vietnamese enterprises.
- Reviewing and immediately abolishing licenses, permits and regulations which are no longer appropriate, hindering production and business activities. Renovating procedures for the grant of business registration certificates toward combining these certificates and tax identification numbers into enterprise identification numbers in business registration certificates.
