Overview
- Parliament’s working group held its first meeting on amendments to the 2022 Licensing Law that would shift 32 activities from special to simple permits, void more than 20 permits, lengthen validity terms, and set a 22‑day issuance timeline with a limited “silence is consent” provision.
- Officials outlined plans to streamline requirements, enable two‑day renewals after compliance checks, and delegate issuance of many simple permits and notifications to professional associations to cut administrative burdens.
- The Economy Ministry reported 285,954 individual and 35,676 legal‑entity permits recorded on license.mn as of January 26, with 274 of 371 permit types processed online and 97 not yet digitized due to system and procedural gaps.
- Education and health unions said agreed pay rises are not being implemented as intended, citing unpaid January salaries, reclassification that reduced other pay components, and staff cuts at rural facilities, and they warned of possible renewed industrial action.
- The Justice Ministry hosted a public consultation on a Whistleblower Protection bill slated for submission in the spring session, as courts heard witness testimony in a group‑assault trial and returned a domestic‑violence case against a city councilor to prosecutors for further investigation.