Anti-corruption in Finance: Many positive solutions
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Continuing reforms to reduce the contact between enterprises and civil servants is one of the fundamental solutions. Photo: H.V. |
First of all, the Ministry of Finance instructed the units to immediately implement Resolution No. 03-NQ / BCSD dated 19 March 2018 on the implementation of anti-corruption work by the Ministry of Finance until 2020 in line with Decisions 10-KL / TW dated 26 December 2016 of the Politburo to implement the Resolution 3 of the Central Committee (10th) on strengthening the leadership of the Party for anti-corruption work and the Resolution No. 126 / NQ-CP dated 29 November 2017 of the Government on the Action Program to implement anti-corruption work until 2020.
In addition, the Ministry also implemented effective control of income assets and regulations on disclosure of assets, income, explanation of income confusion to verify, clarify and promptly handle officials and public employees committing acts of corruption or negativeness. The Ministry of Finance reported the results of asset and income declaration in 2017 to the Government Inspectorate and the Central Committee for Internal Affairs under the guidance in Circular No. 08/2013 / TT-TTCP dated 31 October 2013 of the Government Inspectorate and Directive No. 33-CT / TW dated 3 January 2014 of the Politburo on strengthening the leadership of the Party for the declaration and control of asset declarations.
Units in charge of inspections shall carry out a review to propose competent authorities to amend and supplement the legal documents on socio-economic management related to the areas, functions and tasks of State management of the Ministry of Finance, especially in the area of corruption such as: management and use of land, natural resources and minerals; equitization of SOEs; banking; capital construction investment; education and medical issues. The Ministry of Finance shall coordinate with the concerned agencies in implementing the Laws which took effect from 1 January 2018, such as the Criminal Procedure Code 2015; Penal Code 2015; Law on the amendment and supplement of the Criminal Code in 2017; the Law on the Organization of the Criminal Investigation Agency in 2015; and the Law on the enforcement of temporary detention in 2015.
The mechanisms and policies on financial management will be further reviewed, amended, supplemented and improved to ensure strict, open and transparent manner to meet the requirements of corruption prevention, particularly the norms, criteria and regimes on the management and use of the state budget, land use management, working offices, public-duty houses and enterprise finance.
Units that need to directly deal with people and businesses should continue to accelerate administrative reform, improve the business environment and the national competitiveness in accordance with Government Resolution No. 19-2017 / NQ- CP, No. 35 / NQ-CP, No. 36a / NQ-CP, to broaden the application of information technology and electronics in the tax and Customs domains in order to create maximum convenience, and reduce the time and costs of administrative transactions for enterprises.
In particular, an important task to do in the short term is to improve the capacity of anti-corruption activities by contributing to the timely detection and prevention of corruption, wastefulness, and stepping up the training and fostering of cadres, civil servants and public employees in advising the Party committees, the Party organizations, the heads of the agencies, organizations and units in anti-corruption work.
In addition, the inspection and examination of the observance of the law on thrift practice and waste combat, corruption prevention and control should be strengthened in addition to the administrative inspections to conduct internal inspection, to concentrate on inspection and examination of the responsibilities of the unit heads in organizing and implementing the assigned tasks. The professional procedures and working regulations will be implemented strictly in order to promptly correct violations of discipline and at the same time review and propose amendments and supplements to professional processes, contributing to improving the financial mechanism and preventing corruption and waste.
Anti-corruption a long-term task: Party chief Corruption prevention is an important work that needs to be conducted regularly, continuously, resolutely and patiently, General ... |
Not only the solutions, the Ministry of Finance also raised a number of proposals, including the comprehensive amendment of the Law on Corruption Prevention and Fighting, especially the provisions on measures to prevent corruption; detecting and handling corruption; the competence and responsibility of agencies and units in anti-corruption; organization and operation; the coordination mechanism of specialized agencies in the prevention and fight against corruption. Intensify the coordination among the Party committees, local administrations at all levels and the centrally-managed units in managing and leading the anti-corruption work. Clearly define the managerial mechanism, responsibility mechanism and individual responsibility of heads of Party committees, agencies and organizations.
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