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Streamlining the process of obtaining construction permits for projects with detailed 1/500 scale planning or those in approved urban design areas.
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The dispatch, addressed to the Minister of Construction and the Chairpeople of the People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities, stated that: In the past, the Government and the Prime Minister have issued many strong and timely resolutions and documents on administrative procedure reform; The Ministry of Construction has coordinated with ministries, sectors, and localities to promote the review, streamline, and simplify administrative procedures (APs) in the construction field and achieved some remarkable results: (i) Promote decentralization from the central to local levels in project appraisal, design, and construction permit issuance; (ii) Reduce the number of subjects required to undergo project appraisal report, investment project formulation, and construction design procedures; (iii) Reduce the number of competency certificates and simplify construction practice certificates; (iv) Streamline and simplify APs related to investment and construction activities.
However, according to feedback from people and businesses, the implementation time for some construction investment projects remains lengthy, involving many administrative procedures and high compliance costs.
To further strengthen, substantively, and vigorously reform administrative procedures in the construction field, meeting the requirements and directions of the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Government, and the Prime Minister, the Minister of Construction and the Chairpeople of the People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities are requested to continue performing the tasks and solutions assigned in the Government’s Resolution No. 66/NQ-CP dated March 26, 2025, and the Prime Minister’s Dispatch No. 69/CĐ-TTg dated May 22, 2025, and focus on implementing the following specific tasks:
Streamlining the process of obtaining construction permits for projects with detailed 1/500 scale planning
The Prime Minister requested that the Minister of Construction focus on: Promptly reviewing, streamlining, and simplifying 361 administrative procedures related to production and business activities and 447 business conditions under the management of the Ministry of Construction, ensuring to reduce by at least 30% the time for handling APs, 30% of the cost of complying with APs, and 30% of business conditions in 2025, noting to focus on researching, reviewing, streamlining, and strongly simplifying administrative procedures in the construction field.
Streamlining the process of obtaining construction permits for projects with detailed 1/500 scale planning or those in approved urban design areas.
Reducing the number of subjects required to undergo project and design appraisal procedures at construction specialized agencies.
Reviewing and supplementing fully necessary technical standards and norms in the construction field, especially planning norms, to facilitate investment and construction activities; abolishing and amending technical standards and norms that are no longer suitable and cause waste in investment in construction works.
Streamlining administrative procedures on the construction capacity of enterprises by shifting from granting construction capacity certificates to enterprises self-declaring their eligibility and competent state agencies conducting post-checks; reducing 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 issuance, and acceptance inspection, suitable for the arrangement of administrative units and the implementation of the local government model with two administrative levels.
At the same time, promote digitization and automation (BIM, GIS, IoT, …), and data reuse (planning, land, construction, population, enterprises, …) 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 streamlining administrative procedures, business conditions, compliance costs, and settlement time of administrative procedures under the management of the Ministry of Construction according to the objectives, requirements, and directions of the Politburo and the Government and the tasks in this Dispatch; and to report to the Prime Minister the results (in the report on administrative procedure reform) before the 25th of every month.
Interconnecting administrative procedures on construction investment
The Prime Minister requested the People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to organize the implementation of administrative procedures within their competence, ensuring stability, continuity, smoothness, and effectiveness, without interruption when implementing decentralization and arranging administrative units and deploying the local government model with two administrative levels.
At the same time, proactively research and organize the implementation of interconnection within their competence of administrative procedures related to construction investment activities, ensuring efficiency, reducing procedures, time, and costs for people and businesses to implement administrative procedures.
Besides, the People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities proactively inspect, within their competence, the observance of the law on construction investment of the subjects participating in construction investment activities, ensuring state management and social order and safety when shifting from pre-checks to post-checks and decentralizing the authority to handle administrative procedures.
The Government Office shall monitor and urge the implementation of the above tasks according to its functions and tasks; summarize and promptly report to the Prime Minister the problems beyond its competence./.
– 06:45 30/05/2025
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