Comprehensive implementation in all aspects of work

Speaking at the opening of the Conference, Minister Do Duc Duy requested delegates, based on the achieved results and key tasks to be implemented in the coming time, to focus on exchanging and discussing in a frank and responsible spirit, clearly analyzing the positive and negative aspects, especially the shortcomings and limitations; identifying the causes, drawing lessons from experience to propose appropriate and effective solutions in directing, operating and organizing the implementation to ensure the quality and effectiveness of assigned tasks, striving to successfully complete the political tasks of the Ministry and the industry in 2024.

Reporting at the Conference, Chief of Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Pham Tan Tuyen informed that from the beginning of 2024, closely following the Government's management theme: "Discipline, responsibility, proactiveness, timelyness, accelerated creativity, sustainable efficiency"; in the context of a huge workload and urgent time requirements, the leaders of the Ministry have led and directed the comprehensive implementation in all aspects of work, the activities of the Ministry have taken place stably and smoothly. The heads of agencies and units under the Ministry have made great efforts and shown high determination to implement the work to ensure progress and quality.

Accordingly, some outstanding results have been achieved since the beginning of the year such as: The Party Committee and the Ministry's leaders continued to focus on leading, directing, organizing the review and completion of projects according to the Working Program of the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Government Party Committee; organizing the development of action plans and implementing the documents of the Central Committee.

Prepare to serve the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly, resolve and respond to voters' petitions sent to the Ministry before and after the 7th Session, and send them to the Petition Committee and National Assembly Delegations of provinces and centrally-run cities according to regulations.

The work of building and perfecting institutions, policies and laws continues to receive attention and direction from the Party Committee and the Ministry's leaders; since the beginning of the year, the Ministry has organized and implemented a huge amount of work on law making with high requirements on quality and urgent progress.

Regularly monitor the situation closely, promptly grasp difficulties and obstacles in the implementation of legal documents at the local level to promptly advise the Government, the Prime Minister and direct solutions within authority.

Lead and direct units under the Ministry to review and improve the reception process, enhance the efficiency of administrative procedure (AP) settlement, thereby reducing the rate of delay, lateness, and overdue AP files...

In addition, continue to do a good job of forecasting and warning about natural disasters, extreme weather phenomena, and hydrometeorological developments nationwide, meeting the requirements of leadership, direction, and implementation of response solutions; especially storm No. 3, which has had a very large intensity and scope of influence in recent years...

Regarding the key tasks in October and the fourth quarter of 2024, Chief of Office Pham Tan Tuyen said that, in addition to organizing the implementation of projects and tasks in the Program and Work Plan of the Government and Prime Minister, from now until the end of the year, the Ministry will focus on implementing key tasks such as implementing organizational and personnel work; Reviewing and simplifying processes and procedures for handling administrative procedures directly related to people and businesses; Planning and finance work; Foreign affairs and international cooperation work; Implementing the Digital Transformation Plan for the Natural Resources and Environment sector; Focusing on effectively implementing inspection and examination work...

In addition, emphasizing that institutional and policy building is an important group of tasks, units of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will continue to organize the implementation of documents of the Central Committee; tasks under the work program of the Politburo and the Secretariat; Units assigned to preside actively and proactively coordinate with related units to build legal documents according to the Ministry's 2024 program for building legal documents to ensure quality and deadline...

Regarding specialized fields, Mr. Pham Tan Tuyen said that units will be more determined to complete assigned tasks.

In addition, the Ministry will continue to review and synthesize the Ministry's programs and work plans for 2025; develop plans and organize the implementation of the summary of the 2024 work of the Natural Resources and Environment sector.

Clear people, clear work, clear opinions and clear deadlines

At the Third Quarter Work Conference, deploying tasks for October and the Fourth Quarter of 2024, delegates heard a full report covering all aspects of the Ministry's work in the first 9 months of the year; key tasks in the last months of 2024; and additional reports from units under the Ministry.

The leaders of the Ministry and delegates listened to the leaders of the Departments, Divisions, Institutes and Schools give their opinions on the work of building legal policies; plans, inspection work; state management as well as orientations in the work of operating, training and fostering human resources of the Ministry in the coming time.

Participating in contributing opinions at the Conference, Deputy Minister Tran Quy Kien highly appreciated the opinions of the units, which were detailed and complete, provided data, frankly pointed out the existing problems and limitations... In order to complete the tasks in the year and the coming time, Deputy Minister Tran Quy Kien requested that units, heads, and leaders strengthen the implementation of the duties and responsibilities of civil servants and public employees; advise on administrative reform work; evaluate and develop a roadmap for digital transformation of the Ministry and the industry; proactively exchange work between agencies and localities to remove obstacles in legal policies; practice thrift, combat waste...

Deputy Minister Le Cong Thanh requested that specialized units and heads of agencies pay more attention to advising documents for the Ministry's leaders to serve meetings of the Party, State, Government and National Assembly leaders; coordinate with ministries and branches to build a carbon market; monitor and promptly warn of extreme weather phenomena...

In his concluding remarks, Minister Do Duc Duy agreed with the reports recording the results achieved in the first 9 months of the year. The Ministry has organized and completed a huge amount of work, including many important, urgent and unexpected tasks arising under the direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, and resolved existing problems and difficulties arising from practice.

In addition to the positive results achieved, Minister Do Duc Duy said that the Ministry also needs to frankly acknowledge the shortcomings, limitations, and challenges that need to be continued to be resolved in the coming time. In particular, the Minister pointed out that the work of building and perfecting institutions and policies in the past, although the Ministry has paid attention and focused on directing; however, it is necessary to identify that these are only initial results; Some units under the Ministry are still lacking initiative and are slow in organizing the implementation of tasks; The organization and implementation of investment projects are still slow and confusing, leading to the disbursement rate of public investment capital being low compared to the national average...

With not much time left in 2024, while the Ministry's workload is still very large. In order to continue to improve efficiency, ensure work progress, implement and complete the Ministry's work programs and plans, and the direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, Minister Do Duc Duy requested that Deputy Ministers and Heads of units under the Ministry be serious, determined, and closely follow a number of principles and requirements:

Strictly and fully implement the working regulations of the Ministry, maintain and fully implement work meetings; Deputy Ministers in charge of the field regularly work with assigned units to grasp the situation of task implementation, promptly urge, direct, and remove arising difficulties and problems.

Strictly implement regulations on assignment and decentralization, ensure clear responsibilities and proper authority. Enhance the role of the Ministry and its affiliated units in policy orientation and strategy development.

Strengthen inspection, examination and supervision of policy and law enforcement.

In particular, in the process of directing, resolving and handling work, Minister Do Duc Duy requested to absolutely adhere to the principle of "clear people, clear work, clear responsibilities, clear authority, clear results, clear opinions and clear deadlines".

" Just work, no back talk "

Regarding the specific tasks that need to be implemented from now until the end of 2024 and in the coming time, Minister Do Duc Duy assessed that there are many heavy and large-volume tasks. The Minister requested heads of units to unify the goal of "Only discussing, not backtracking" and at the same time pointed out 10 key groups of tasks that need to be implemented, including:

Firstly, for the tasks submitted to the Politburo; reporting to the Politburo's inspection team, the Minister requested relevant units to proactively coordinate with units under the Central Party Office to complete the dossiers of assigned Projects and closely monitor to promptly report to competent authorities to ensure deadlines...

Second, regarding the development of institutions, policies and laws, the Minister requested the Legal Department to take the lead in monitoring, urging and coordinating with units to focus on implementation, ensuring completion and submission to competent authorities of all documents according to the Ministry's 2024 Legal Document Development Program, including draft Laws, Resolutions of the National Assembly, Decrees and Decisions of the Government, and completing and submitting to the competent authorities Circulars regulating regulations, standards, and economic and technical norms...

Units continue to focus on disseminating, propagating, and training on the implementation of the 2024 Land Law, the 2023 Water Resources Law, and new regulations of the 2020 Environmental Protection Law... Regarding the 2024 Land Law, the Minister proposed to strengthen the guidance and propaganda of the law, instruct localities to issue documents under their authority, in which select a number of localities that have been implementing well to coordinate quickly and early, serving as a model for other localities to implement, in addition to promptly grasping and advising on removing arising difficulties and problems.

Third, for specialized fields of State management, the Minister proposed to continue to deploy and implement specialized task groups related to land use conversion, land inventory; investigation and assessment of water resources; guidance and removal of difficulties, obstacles, and procedures related to mineral exploitation; development of a master plan for exploitation and sustainable use of coastal resources...

In addition, it is necessary to prepare well the content to serve the National Assembly's Supreme Supervisory Delegation to supervise the topic "Implementation of policies and laws on environmental protection since the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 took effect"; Direct and guide localities to strengthen environmental pollution control, environmental restoration, and overcoming the consequences of Storm No. 3...

Continue to closely monitor and grasp developments in natural disasters, extreme weather events, etc.

Coordinate with the Ministry of Finance to complete the Project on developing carbon market in Vietnam. Continue to implement projects on climate change adaptation and Vietnam's commitments at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP).

In addition, promote the application of surveying and mapping technology in determining and demarcating borders and administrative boundaries on land and at sea; apply remote sensing technology in monitoring and supervising resources, environment and responding to climate change.

Fourth, effectively organize and implement the 2024 Inspection and Examination Plan of the Ministry...

Fifth, regarding international cooperation, organize working delegations of the Ministry according to the Plan. In particular, the focus is on organizing a working delegation to attend the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) in Azerbaijan in November 2024.

Sixth, the Department of Planning and Finance and other units focus on accelerating the implementation of investment projects and disbursement of public investment capital of the Ministry, striving to achieve the targets assigned by the Prime Minister.

Seventh, units according to their functions, tasks and assignments focus on promoting the implementation of digital transformation. Evaluating the efforts in digital transformation of units, however, they still do not meet the requirements. According to the Minister, without data, there is no solution for management, so all units under the Ministry must be responsible for implementation.

Eighth, urgently complete the tasks of perfecting the organizational structure of units according to the direction of the Party Executive Committee; Research, review, and propose amendments to regulations on management, use, and appointment of civil servants and public employees in the direction of increasing decentralization...

Ninth, give opinions on training and scientific research, in addition to focusing on ensuring the progress and quality of approved scientific research topics and tasks. Minister Do Duc Duy suggested that it is necessary to boldly innovate to change methods, apply science and technology to state legal management; further strengthen human resource training, not only for the Ministry, for the industry but also for the whole country...

Finally, Minister Do Duc Duy directed the Ministry's Office to continue reviewing, advising on amending and perfecting the Ministry's Working Regulations and related regulations and procedures for handling work to ensure a synchronous, smooth and proactive system of operation at each stage, each organization, each job and each individual, to maximize individualization of responsibility to each unit, each cadre and civil servant in performing their duties.

Minister Do Duc Duy requested the heads of units in the Ministry to strictly implement discipline and administrative order. He requested all cadres, civil servants and public employees to handle their work with the highest sense of responsibility to serve the people and businesses, and speed up the settlement of administrative procedures.