Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has instructed ministries and localauthorities to beef up the quality of vehicle registration centresacross the country to avoid shortcomings related to vehicle registrationcertificates.

In his Instruction 08/CT-TTg signed on April 12,PM Dung requests the Ministry of Transport to review, adjust andcomplete legal documents regarding regulations on road, rail, waterwayand maritime vehicle registration.

He noted that all loopholesthat could enable corruption or misconduct needed to be checked andreformed to ensure the integrity of vehicle registration.

Theministry was also asked to conduct regular checks on registration staffand close substandard centres undertaking serious violations. Violatingcentres would be publicly named and shamed under the instruction.

TheMinistry of Public Security and local people's committees will alsojoin hands to investigate and inspect violations at registrationcentres.

The National Committee for Traffic Safety will also bein charge of dissemination and education on the regulations of vehicleregistration.

In his instruction, the Prime Minister noted thatdespite positive achievements in previous years, there were stillweaknesses in registration procedures and that misconduct had affectedthe quality of vehicle registration.

Some registration staffwere found engaging in reckless or irresponsible behaviour causingproblems in the registration process, the PM's instruction noted.

Theinstruction added such wrongdoing had also allowed substandard vehiclesto be certified, posing risks of accidents and pollution.

Inanother effort to boost the quality of registration, the Ministry ofTransport last month announced that the heads of the Vietnam RegisterAgency, the body in charge of all registration centres nationwide, wouldbe forced to resign if problems related to issuing vehicle registrationcertificates persisted by the year's end.

The ministry has also planned to inspect all 100 centres across the country very soon.-VNA