PM asks for revisions to avoid legal vacuum during apparatus restructuring
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the fourth meeting of the steering committee for reviewing and organising the settlement of bottlenecks in the legal system in Hanoi on December 29.
PM Pham Minh Chinh chairs the meeting in Hanoi on December 29. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) 👍– Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the fourth meeting of the steering committee for reviewing and organising the settlement of bottlenecks in the legal system in Hanoi on December 29.
The event focused on problems related to legal regulations on power decentralisation and authorisation, especially the legal documents affected by the apparatus restructuring.
Members of the steering committee held that legal documents should be amended and supplemented to secure a sufficient legal basis for apparatus restructuring, avoid a legal vacuum, and ensure normal and uninterrupted operations of agencies, organisations, units, businesses, and people during the restructuring.
They called for revising the rules on power decentralisation and authorisation so that the legal system is clear and creates space for creativity and development. They also underlined the need for encouraging the spirit of thinking big, acting bold, and daring to bear responsibility so as to reform and restructure the state administrative apparatus towards leanness, strength, efficiency, and effectiveness.
PM Chinh, who is also head of steering committee, demanded legal documents be issued quickly to serve the apparatus restructuring and ensure operations are not disrupted during the process.
He emphasised the necessity to abandon the mindset of “banning whenever failing to manage” and “not knowing but still managing”. Instead, he noted, it is important to assign tasks to the ones showing the best management capacity.
Besides, the State should not do the things that people and businesses can do well but focus on management, building strategies and plans, facilitating development, and designing tools for examination and monitoring, stipulating the banned things in laws, and creating space for creativity in the activities that are not prohibited.
The Government leader stressed the need to boost the decentralisation of power in tandem with the allocation of resources and the improvement of implementation capabilities, and that all resources must be unlocked to gain double-digit growth in coming years.
The PM asked ministries and agencies to quickly review specialised laws to step up power decentralisation to remove procedural obstacles for investment projects.
In addition, they were told proactively review and consider amendments and supplements to the legal documents affected by the apparatus restructuring to steer clear of a legal vacuum during the implementation of new tasks./.
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