Legal support for small and medium enterprises

Quang Ninh always pays special attention to small and medium-sized enterprises, especially in legal support, creating conditions for these enterprises to have sufficient capacity when participating in production, business, and search activities. seek markets, thereby contributing to promoting and developing the economy and ensuring social security and welfare in the locality.

 The Provincial Customs Department and Hai Ha Industrial Park Company Limited signed a Memorandum of Understanding to participate in the Program to encourage voluntary compliance with customs laws.

To effectively deploy legal support for businesses, the Provincial People's Committee issued Decision No. 366/QD-UBND dated February 3, 2020 on Plan to implement Decree No. 55/ND-CP dated June 24 /2019 of the Government on legal support for small and medium enterprises; Plan No. 150/KH-UBND dated June 8, 2023 on implementing Decision No. 345/QD-TTg dated April 5, 2023 of the Prime Minister approving the Project "Improving quality and efficiency Legal support for businesses in the period 2021-2030" in Quang Ninh province.

Based on the plan of the Provincial People's Committee, departments, branches, Provincial Business Association and localities have developed specific implementation plans and are integrated in the work of advising on the construction and promulgation of legal documents. law, ensuring that there are no regulations that create troublesome business conditions or administrative procedures that affect the rights and interests of people and businesses; promulgated documents ensure conformity and legality. , uniformity and uniformity in the legal system.

Departments, branches and localities of the province regularly provide necessary information for the activities of the business community through websites and fanpages of the province, localities , departments and branches; via zalo group, email, text release. The information content focuses on newly issued guidelines and policies of the Central and Provincial governments; Directive documents and instructions from all levels, information on the market, technology trends, environment, policies and impacts of new policies on businesses.

Mr. Pham Van The, Chairman of the Provincial Business Association, said: The provincial business community is very excited when the provincial agencies and units regularly provide useful information to serve the production process. , business of enterprises, especially the major policies and orientations of the province in socio-economic development.

A number of departments and branches have proactively propagated and disseminated new regulations of countries in the EU, Northeast Asia, and South Asia on food imports; regulations and rules on international cooperation; regulations on commitments in the ASEAN, ASEAN+ and RCEP Agreements, EVFTA Agreement, Vietnam's main commitments, regulations guiding the implementation of trade promotion and foreign trade development activities under the national program on trade promotion; Information about shifting production supply chains on a global scale, the 4.0 industrial revolution associated with digital transformation.

 Quang Ninh Employment Service Center (Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs) coordinates with Ha Long City Business Association to foster startup knowledge for businesses in the area. Photo: Cao Quynh.

The Department of Justice coordinates with the Provincial Bar Association to appoint officers to perform permanent duties to guide businesses in researching and applying lawsuit procedures; Guide businesses to choose and use consulting services and legal aid to sue when needed; Registered with the Ministry of Justice to recognize 6 practicing organizations and 7 individual lawyers participating in the Ministry of Justice's legal consultant network to provide legal support to small and medium-sized enterprises in the province. when you need.

Relevant departments and branches have also organized 3 training courses, 70 conferences, 29 training classes, fostering legal knowledge for businesses, focusing on small and medium-sized enterprises. The training content is quite diverse and rich, focusing on the legal fields of labor, business, food safety, investment, land, construction, environmental protection, taxes, fees, and government. Preferential policies to attract investment, special incentives for businesses, policies on improving the business investment environment, and administrative reform.

In addition to removing legal difficulties and obstacles, the province's agencies and units have also implemented solutions to support businesses and people, especially during the recovery period after the Covid pandemic. -19. In 2022 alone, Quang Ninh State Bank Branch has restructured loan terms, exempted and reduced loan interest and kept the same debt group for customers with a total outstanding debt of VND 7,124 billion; The Provincial Social Policy Bank has disbursed over VND 12 billion to 53 businesses and employers to pay work stoppage wages and restore production for 3,202 workers.

With positive results in legal support for businesses, it has contributed to improving the legal level of investors and businesses in implementing projects and business plans, limiting risks and disputes. in business, thereby encouraging and motivating many organizations and individuals to establish new businesses. In just 10 months alone, the whole province has established 2,277 new businesses and dependent units, an increase of 11.7% over the same period in 2022.