Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh highly appreciated the concerned ministries and branches' efforts in implementing the assigned tasks, achieving positive results, with the spirit of facilitating import and export, especially agricultural commodities...
By the end of August 2020, there were 200 administrative procedures of 13 related ministries and branches, an increase of 12 methods than 2019, with over 3.2 million records and over 40,000 enterprises.

Besides, ministries and agencies that have built new and completed connection checks are preparing to officially implement 14 new administrative procedures of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (6 methods), and the Ministry of Defense (6 methods), Ministry of Health (2 methods); new construction and in the process of testing 9 new administrative functions of the Ministry of Health.

With the ASW mechanism, Vietnam has also connected more with 5 ASEAN countries, including Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, and the Philippines, bringing the total number of connected members to 9 countries. The total number of origin (C/O) certificates from ASEAN countries is over 179,000, while the entire C/O sent to ASEAN countries is around 263,000.

Vietnam also negotiated to exchange certificates of origin with the Eurasian Economic Union; Electronic C/O information exchange with South Korea and New Zealand.

The specialized inspection continued to achieve positive results, in which the proportion of import and export consignments subject to specialized inspection at the customs clearance stage decreased from 33% to 19%.

Ministries and branches have also focused on reviewing and eliminating overlaps in the specialized inspection; check and reduce the list of goods and standards and regulations of groups of goods subject to specialized inspection.

Ministries and branches have made great efforts to review and build legal documents on specialized management and inspection; electronic test procedures; renovating inspection work; review concentrated specialized inspection sites; socializing technical inspection...

The Ministry of Finance has completed and submitted to the Government for approval the Project on Reforming the model of food quality inspection and food safety inspection for imported goods, focusing on the following contents: To simplify, standardize, and unify the process and procedures for quality inspection and food safety inspection; applying conversion of quality control methods...

At the same time, to expand the object of exemption from quality inspection, food safety inspection; improve compliance of enterprises, ensure the controlling role of state management agencies through the application of the principle of risk management in quality inspection and food safety inspection for import goods and carry out random inspection not more than 5% to assess compliance with the law.

Regarding the tasks in the coming time, the Deputy Prime Minister suggested ministries and branches continue to review and develop plans to implement the remaining assigned tasks.

The Ministry of Finance develops a project to submit to the Prime Minister on food safety quality inspection for imported goods; coordinate with ministries and branches in developing an information technology system development project to serve the implementation of ASW and NSW mechanisms to ensure the implementation of level 4 administrative procedures; establish a mechanism and accelerate electronic data sharing to optimize the use of the NSW mechanism in the direction of facilitating and reducing costs for enterprises in implementing procedures.

Arranging appropriate human resources to closely coordinate with the General Department of Customs to connect and operate electronic procedures; promptly solve enterprises' problems in the process of implementing administrative systems.

Continuing to issue a list of goods with HS codes, technical standards, and regulations for the products under the management responsibility of ministries and branches./.