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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed Official Dispatch No. 78/CD-TTg dated May 29, 2025, on focusing on cutting and simplifying administrative procedures in the construction field.
The Prime Minister requested the Minister of Construction to focus on implementing the following tasks: Urgently review and simplify 361 administrative procedures related to production and business activities and 447 business conditions under the management of the Ministry of Construction.
This ensures a reduction of at least 30% in the time for handling administrative procedures, 30% in compliance costs, and 30% in business conditions in 2025. Particular attention should be paid to studying, reviewing, and strongly cutting and simplifying administrative procedures in the construction field.
Specifically, reduce the number of procedures for granting construction permits for works belonging to investment projects that have detailed planning at a scale of 1/500 or works in areas with approved urban designs.
Reduce the number of subjects that have to undergo the procedure for appraisal of projects and designs at specialized construction agencies.
Review and supplement fully necessary technical standards and norms in the construction field, especially norms on construction planning, to facilitate investment and construction activities; revoke and amend technical standards and norms that are no longer suitable and cause waste in investment in construction works.
Reduce administrative procedures regarding the capacity of construction enterprises towards shifting the management of business conditions from granting certificates of capacity for construction activities to enterprises themselves announcing their eligibility and competent state agencies conducting post-checks; reduce investment and business conditions in the field of construction activities.
The Minister of Construction continues to study the thorough decentralization of authority to settle administrative procedures related to project appraisal, design, construction permit granting, and construction acceptance inspection, suitable for the arrangement of administrative units and the implementation of the model of a two-level local government.
At the same time, promote digitization and automation (BIM, GIS, IoT, etc.), and reuse data (planning, land, construction, population, enterprises, etc.) in performing administrative procedures in the construction field to cut down on dossiers, papers, implementation procedures, and settlement time.
The Prime Minister assigned the Minister of Construction to take responsibility before the Government and the Prime Minister for the results of cutting administrative procedures, business conditions, compliance costs, and settlement time under the management of the Ministry of Construction according to the targets, requirements, and directions in the Resolutions of the Politburo and the Government and the tasks in this Official Dispatch; and to report to the Prime Minister the results (in the report on administrative procedure reform) before the 25th of every month.
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