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Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Thanh Tinh proposed that it is necessary to ensure connection, continuity, and information security between databases, considering this a key condition for reducing and simplifying administrative procedures based on data to be effective and feasible. Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Thanh Tinh spoke at the meeting. Photo: VGP/DA Continuing the working program, on the afternoon of October 30, the working group led by Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Thanh Tinh, Deputy Head of the Interdisciplinary Working Group on reviewing and evaluating administrative procedures (Administrative Procedures) nationwide worked with the Ministry of Science and Technology (Ministry of Science and Technology) on reviewing, reducing and simplifying administrative procedures based on data according to Official Dispatch No. 201/CD-TTg dated October 22, 2025 of the Prime Minister (Official Telegram 201). At the working session, Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Tinh clearly stated the purpose, meaning and requirements of the working session, thereby grasping the implementation progress and difficulties and suggestions during the implementation process. The Deputy Minister emphasized many core factors that contribute significantly to success in reducing and simplifying administrative procedures based on data, which are the legal corridor, data quality must ensure correct, sufficient, clean, live; technological infrastructure, implementation progress; ensuring human and financial resources and, importantly, reducing them to facilitate people when required. Reporting at the working session, the representative of the Ministry of Science and Technology said that the Ministry has urgently assigned units to implement; Thereby, the Ministry reviewed a total of 519 administrative procedures under the management of the Ministry of Science and Technology, of which 334 administrative procedures at central level, 185 at provincial level (no administrative procedures at commune/ward level), divided into 08 areas. The number of administrative procedures containing one of 15 types of documents that have information on national databases and specialized databases is 154 administrative procedures. The review results show that in administrative procedures, there are 3 types of documents required: Citizen Identification; Criminal record card, Business registration certificate. In particular, the Judicial Record Certificate has been implemented, reviewed and reduced in Decree No. 262/2025/ND-CP dated October 14, 2025 of the Government detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Science, Technology and Innovation (abolishing 02 administrative procedures; and amending and supplementing 01 administrative procedures). RELATED NEWS The Ministry of Science and Technology has reviewed 154 administrative procedures. at the request of the Working Group; The results showed that there were 04 overlapping administrative procedures, the Ministry of Science and Technology added 05 new administrative procedures. Thus, the total number of administrative procedures proposed to be reduced and simplified based on the database is 155 administrative procedures. Currently, the Ministry of Science and Technology has reviewed and proposed amendments: 29 legal documents, including 02 Laws, 10 Decrees, 05 Decisions of the Prime Minister; 12 Circular. The Ministry of Science and Technology requests the Ministry of Public Security to continue to improve the connection and data sharing infrastructure between the national population database and specialized databases, ensuring fast, safe access for the right purpose to serve the resolution of administrative procedures; At the same time, issue standard technical procedures so that officials handling administrative procedures can retrieve information to replace documents; Issue regulations on recording and supervising the exploitation of electronic data to ensure proper use and avoid information leakage. It is recommended that the Ministry of Justice soon have a unified guiding document on the use of electronic data instead of traditional papers, with a mechanism to record equivalent legal value (in fact, there is still a fear of legal liability when using electronic data instead of paper copies). Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Bui Hoang Phuong spoke at the working session. Photo: VGP/DAAt the meeting, delegates discussed many related issues such as sharing and integrating documents on VNeID, connecting information systems, and the systems responsiveness; feasibility of reduction; technical issues, guaranteed resources, synchronization, connectivity, and infrastructure of the central and local data systems, especially after the operation of 02 levels of local government... Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Bui Hoang Phuong affirmed that the Ministrys perspective is to highly support the policy of reducing and simplifying administrative procedures based on data, saving time and costs. The Deputy Minister also said that the Ministry of Science and Technology is being assigned to build many databases and shared platforms, including administrative procedures platforms. However, there are also difficulties when merging the Ministry because it was previously building its own database. Agreeing with the viewpoint of not waiting for complete data but needing to exploit what is already available, Deputy Minister Bui Hoang Phuong affirmed that the Ministry will continue to review, especially the problems to soon find solutions. Concluding the meeting, Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Thanh Tinh assessed that the Ministry of Science and Technology had promptly deployed the Prime Ministers Official Telegram and instructions from the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Justice. The Deputy Minister also noted that the Ministry of Science and Technology needs to continue to pay attention to issues of digital transformation to reduce
