On March 30, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting with the Steering Committee on reviewing and removing difficulties and obstacles related to projects to listen to reports on the review, assessment, and finding solutions to continue removing difficulties and obstacles for pending projects.

According to the report of the Ministry of Finance, the standing agency of the Steering Committee, as of March 25, a total of 1,533 projects reported by agencies and localities were facing difficulties and problems, including 338 public investment projects, 1,126 non-budget investment projects and 69 PPP projects.

In addition, the Ministry of Finance received documents from businesses reflecting on 12 projects facing difficulties and obstacles.

The Ministry of Finance has preliminarily classified difficulties and obstacles into 17 related groups of issues such as: Handling public assets; management, use, and allocation of public investment capital; changing land use purposes; stopping, revoking, and terminating project activities, etc.

At the same time, classify projects according to the authority to handle difficulties and problems of: National Assembly, Government, Prime Minister, ministries, branches, and localities.

In his concluding remarks, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that this work aims at many goals and has great significance in many aspects.

Regarding viewpoints, the Prime Minister stated that time is short, work is a lot, content is rich, and nature is complex, so determination must be high, efforts must be great, actions must be drastic, effective, focused, key points, clear assignment of people, work, time, products, responsibilities, and authority; problems at which level must be resolved at that level, and the authority of the person must be resolved, without pushing or avoiding.

The spirit is to focus on removing difficulties and obstacles, overcoming consequences, ensuring publicity, transparency, equality, and clarity, for the common mission.

The Prime Minister noted that during the settlement process, the responsibilities of individuals and groups must be clarified to the extent that they are handled; "hitting the mouse but not breaking the vase", not allowing mistakes to be piled on top of mistakes, not creating a precedent for future violations.

The Prime Minister requested to focus on resolving the 1,533 projects that have been reported. If there are any new projects, they must continue to be resolved. The spirit is to be clear as to what is done, to be sure as to what is done, to finish each task, to learn from experience as you go, to expand gradually, not to be perfectionist, not to be hasty. For specific issues, a specific mechanism must be proposed to handle them.

Regarding the deadline, the Prime Minister directed that the procedures for handling the projects must be completed before May 30.

In particular, for projects with land issues, the Prime Minister requested localities, especially at the grassroots level, to resolve them thoroughly.

For groups of projects with planning problems, review the planning, especially specialized planning, as a basis for implementing projects to ensure consistency and synchronization with the general planning system.

Regarding difficulties and problems with projects and land in the conclusions of inspections, examinations, and judgments, it is proposed that the National Assembly allow localities, ministries, branches, and agencies to apply specific policies approved by the National Assembly in Resolutions 170 and 171 to projects of similar nature.

For projects with violations during implementation but have been basically implemented and are difficult to recover, propose solutions to remove them, give a deadline to overcome difficulties, obstacles and consequences (if any); the spirit is efficiency, humanity, appropriateness, prioritizing the application of economic, civil and administrative measures first, then applying other measures; do not conceal, do not omit, do not let violations slip through, do not let state assets be lost but ensure the legitimate and legal rights and interests of people and businesses.

For difficult and entangled projects that do not have legal regulations to regulate and cannot apply the specific policy mechanisms issued by the National Assembly, they must be researched and proposed to the National Assembly at the upcoming session.

The Prime Minister directed the Ministry of Finance to develop and submit to the Government for promulgation a resolution to handle groups of issues under its authority; at the same time, build a database system on projects with difficulties, obstacles, backlogs, and prolongations, based on the data to analyze the causes, propose appropriate, feasible, and effective solutions; have general instructions with forms and outlines for ministries, branches, and localities to make reports.