The Government Office has just issued Notice No. 262/TB-VPCP dated October 5, 2021 on the conclusion of the Prime Minister at the National Online Conference with ministries, central and local agencies on promoting the disbursement of public investment capital plan in 2021.

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Strictly handle investors slowing down the progress of capital delivery

To strive to achieve the highest disbursement of public investment in 2021, the Prime Minister requested ministries, central agencies and localities to focus on drastically implementing the following key tasks and solutions:

Continuing to effectively implement measures to prevent and control the Covid-19 pandemic, ensuring unified leadership and direction from central to grassroots levels, along with strengthening decentralization and raising responsibility, initiative, creativity and flexibility of all levels, branches and localities.

The Government's Resolutions and the Prime Minister's directives must be strictly implemented to accelerate the disbursement of public investment capital in 2021.

Ministers, heads of central agencies, chairpersons of People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities upheld the sense of responsibility, promoting the role of the head in leading, directing and organizing; regularly review, urge, promptly detect and remove difficulties and obstacles arising from each project, especially key projects; individualize responsibility to each individual; consider disbursement results as one of the important bases to evaluate the level of completion of annual tasks of relevant organizations and individuals.

Uphold discipline, strengthen inspection and supervision; strictly handle investors, project management boards and contractors who intentionally cause difficulties or hinder the progress of capital allocation and disbursement; review and promptly handle weak or negative cadres who fail to complete assigned tasks.

Project must be immediately reviewed from preparation, capital allocation projects must be selected for designation, bidding, construction, payment and settlement procedures for each project. Focus on speeding up site clearance, solve problems, making payment records as soon as they are available.

Complete the detailed capital allocation for new construction projects in 2021 before September 30, 2021 in accordance with regulations.

Immediately transfer capital from slow-disbursed projects to projects with good disbursement ability and in need of additional capital or adjustment to recover advance capital for the portfolio of projects that have been assigned the plan of medium-term public investment in the 2021-2025 period according to its prescribed competence or report to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance for the capital that cannot be fully disbursed by the ministries, agencies and localities to have a plan to transfer to other ministries, agencies and localities that have demand for additional capital and have good disbursement capacity.

Continue to review legal provisions related to public investment procedures, implementation and disbursement of public investment capital that are still inadequate to promptly amend and supplement according to the competence or report to competent authorities under regulations, especially regulations on construction, land and natural resources. Strengthen close coordination among ministries, agencies and localities, carefully prepare contents and properly implement processes and procedures in amending and supplementing legal regulations.

To facilitate the circulation and transport of goods and materials, to avoid congestion, but still ensure safety for disease prevention and control; localities that have to implement social distancing should focus on completing project investment procedures, ensuring implementation immediately after easing social distancing measures.

Review and minimize administrative procedures

The Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Planning and Investment to review and minimize administrative procedures, increase working online to save time, costs and not to cause trouble for ministries, agencies and localities.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment shall assume the prime responsibility for and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and relevant ministries, agencies and localities in reviewing, summarizing and reporting to the Prime Minister and the Government to report to the National Assembly Standing Committee on cutting down, transferring the capital plan in 2021 from the ministries, agencies and localities with slow disbursement to the ministries, agencies and localities that disburse well and have demand for additional capital according to regulations.

Assume the prime responsibility for and coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies in reviewing legal regulations related to public investment that still have problems and shortcomings to propose amendments and supplements to speed up disbursement, improve efficient use of public investment capital.

The Ministry of Finance continues to review and simplify procedures, shorten the time to control payments, withdraw capital from donors and avoid backlog of documents; promptly handle problems related to payment, settlement and capital withdrawal; coordinate with the Government Office, ministries, agencies and localities to publicize monthly disbursement results of ministries, central agencies and localities on the Government's web portal, the electronic portal of ministries, agencies, localities and on mass media.

The Ministry of Health urgently issues the guidelines on "Safe adaptation, flexibility and effective control of the Covid-19 pandemic" under the direction of the Prime Minister so that localities and agencies can apply them uniformly.

The Prime Minister's special working group on removing difficulties for investment projects and the special working group on disbursement of public investment in ministries, central agencies and localities to strengthen their understanding of the situation, closely follow the practice, step up the supervision and inspection, urge and direct the timely handling of difficulties, obstacles and inadequacies in the implementation and disbursement of public investment capital.