Reducing and simplifying administrative procedures based on data control not only helps streamline processes and reduce social costs but also lays the foundation for a modern, transparent, and service-oriented administration. This is a key task in implementing the directives from Party Chief To Lam, head of the Central Steering Committee for Science, Technology, Innovation, and Digital Transformation.

It is expected that in 2025, 520 administrative procedures will be abolished and 2,421 procedures will be simplified. The total number of procedures to be reduced or simplified will reach 2,941 out of 4,888 procedures related to business and production activities, or 60 percent.

Deputy Minister Tinh spoke with the press recently on data-based cutting and simplifying of administrative procedures.

What are the key solutions that ministries and branches need to implement to ensure progress and feasibility in reviewing, cutting, and simplifying administrative procedures?

In the guidance sent to ministries, branches, and localities, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) emphasized that the review and simplification of procedures must go hand in hand with reviewing relevant legal provisions to propose necessary amendments, supplements, or abolishment.

Only by decisively implementing both aspects can we ensure that the plan to cut administrative procedures based on data, effective from November 15, 2025, will be substantial and effective in practice.

Given the urgency and wide scope of this task, which applies to ministries and local authorities nationwide, the ministry has asked provincial departments of justice to act as focal points assisting provincial people’s committees in monitoring and urging the implementation.

At the same time, the ministry has required heads of legal departments in ministries and government agencies to coordinate closely in reviewing both procedures and legal regulations, providing a foundation for the government to issue normative resolutions under the National Assembly’s Resolution No206/2025/QH15 on special mechanisms to address legal obstacles.

The ministry will also organize inspection teams to oversee the implementation of the Prime Minister’s directive No201 in several ministries, branches, and localities, ensuring that all reports are submitted to MOJ before October 31, 2025, with the highest quality and in line with government directives.

Roadmap for replacing paperwork with electronic data

Regarding the roadmap, how should the replacement of paper documents with electronic data be planned to ensure feasibility and consistency?

Based on the readiness and reliability of data, as well as the feasibility of replacing paper documents with electronic records, ministries and local authorities should actively propose specific implementation roadmaps.

For example, with 15 types of documents identified by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), we can start implementation as early as November 15, 2025. However, beyond these 15 groups, there are many other documents that need to be digitized and “cleaned” in line with the progress of national and sectoral database development.

The core principle should be: the further the data is completed (accurate, sufficient, clean, active, unified, and shared), the more procedures should be reduced accordingly. This must be viewed as a fundamental and comprehensive solution to simplify administrative processes in the future.

For specific administrative procedures under provincial jurisdiction, what approach should be taken to ensure effective and consistent implementation of digital replacements?

For localities with specific administrative procedures (668 procedures are listed in the appendix issued by MOJ), these fall under provincial authority and are the responsibility of the chairpersons of provincial people’s committees.

However, the ministry has requested that localities provide information for consolidation to facilitate the transition from paper-based to data-based processes, ensuring uniformity nationwide. This will serve as a key foundation for coordinated leadership and implementation going forward.

The general principle is that once data exists, it must be used to replace paperwork in administrative procedures for citizens and businesses. To do this, localities should effectively leverage their Project 06 task forces to meet the goals of reducing administrative procedures, improving convenience for citizens and businesses, and minimizing social costs.

After receiving reports from ministries and localities, how will MOJ proceed to ensure completion by November 15, 2025?

Immediately after October 31, 2025, MOJ, together with the inter-agency task force, will work directly with each ministry and sector to finalize the list of procedures to be simplified or reduced based on data. We will also advise the government to issue a normative resolution to ensure implementation.

During this process, there will be cross-checking among ministries, sectors, and localities to ensure that the implementation plan is feasible, consistent, and synchronized nationwide.

T. Nhung