Directive 11/1999/CT-TTg

DIRECTIVE No.11/1999/CT-TTg of May 6, 1999 on righting the errors detected through 1998 financial inspection

In order to overcome shortcomings and errors in the work of financial and State budget management, the Prime Minister requests the heads of the ministries, branches, localities and units to immediately do the following:

- Directing the relevant units to immediately correct their shortcomings and errors regarding financial matters, detected and concluded by financial inspectors.

- Strictly complying with the Regulation on Bidding in investment and construction, promptly overcoming the situation where bids should have been organized for many projects but in fact bidders have been appointed arbitrarily therefor.

- The provincial/municipal People�s Committees must strictly comply with their competence as well as the regulations on the management of charge and fee collection, tax reduction and exemption; and must not put budget revenues outside the State budget final settlement or make budget expenditure beyond the estimates.

- The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs shall coordinate with the Ministry of Finance, the other ministries, branches and localities in inspecting and reorganizing the consideration, ratification and final account settlement of wage funds for enterprises; supplementing the regulations on personal and collective legal liability for the improper ratification of wage price units for the lower-level units.

- The Ministry of Finance shall guide the ministries, branches and localities on the contents and methods of inspection of the use of funds managed by such ministries, branches and localities respectively and shall directly inspect and examine funds of administrative and non-business units as well as key enterprises; urge and inspect the implementation of this Directive and report the implementation results to the Prime Minister before July 30, 1999.- (Summary)