Announcement of the President's Order on 15 laws and 1 ordinance

Deputy Head of the Office of the President Pham Thanh Ha speaks. Photo: An Dang/VNA

These laws and ordinances include:

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Election of Deputies to the National Assembly and People's Councils;

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of 11 laws on military and national defense;

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Enterprises;

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Bidding, the Law on Investment under the public-private partnership model, the Customs Law, the Law on Value Added Tax, the Law on Export Tax and Import Tax, the Investment Law, the Law on Public Investment, and the Law on Management and Use of Public Assets;

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Law on Trade Unions, the Law on Youth and the Law on Grassroots Democracy;

Law on Cadres and Civil Servants (amended);

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Handling of Administrative Violations;

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents;

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality;

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Criminal Procedure Code;

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Penal Code; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of People's Courts;

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Civil Procedure Code, the Administrative Procedure Law, the Juvenile Justice Law, the Bankruptcy Law and the Law on Mediation and Dialogue at Court;

Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of People's Procuracy;

Law on Inspection;

Ordinance amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ordinance on Procedures for Arresting Ships, the Ordinance on Procedures for Arresting Aircraft, the Ordinance on Procedures for People's Courts to Consider and Decide on Sending Drug Addicts from 12 to Under 18 Years of Age to Compulsory Drug Rehabilitation Facilities, the Ordinance on Administrative Sanctions for Acts of Obstructing Litigation Activities, the Ordinance on Procedures for Considering and Deciding on the Application of Administrative Measures at People's Courts, and the Ordinance on Litigation Costs.

Ensuring the unity and uniformity of the legal system

The Law amends and supplements a number of articles of the Law on Election of Deputies to the National Assembly and People's Councils to implement the policy of streamlining and streamlining the organizational apparatus of agencies in the political system. The content of the Law focuses on amending regulations related to the organization of local governments according to the two-level model; reducing the time for implementing some steps in the election process to be able to hold early elections on March 15, 2026 and amending to promptly overcome some difficulties in the election work. The amended and supplemented contents ensure consistency and consistency with the amendment of the Constitution, the Law on Organization of Local Government and related laws on organizational apparatus.

The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of 11 laws on military and national defense (Law on National Defense, Law on People's Army Officers, Law on Professional Soldiers, Workers and National Defense Officials, Law on Military Service, Law on Vietnam Border Guard, Law on People's Air Defense, Law on Reserve Forces, Law on Civil Defense, Law on Management and Protection of National Defense Works and Military Zones, Law on Militia and Self-Defense Forces, Law on National Defense and Security Education) has 12 articles. Notably, regarding the Law on National Defense, the Law amends and supplements a number of points and clauses in 3 articles with a number of contents such as: Determining the construction of regional defense, building at the commune level as a foundation for local protection; the authority of the provincial People's Committee to issue a curfew in one or several commune-level localities; the commune-level People's Committee to issue a curfew in one or several areas under its management.

The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Enterprises consists of 3 articles; continuing to perfect the legal framework on the establishment, organization and related activities of enterprises; promoting enterprise development, attracting investment in production and business; contributing to improving the investment and business environment to be favorable, safe and transparent. At the same time, it ensures the urgency, timeliness, completeness, synchronization, unity, effectiveness, efficiency and conformity with practical requirements; ensuring the implementation of Vietnam's international commitments in implementing national actions on anti-money laundering.

The Law amends and supplements a number of articles of the Law on Bidding, the Law on Investment under the Public-Private Partnership model, the Customs Law, the Law on Value Added Tax, the Law on Export Tax and Import Tax, the Investment Law, the Law on Public Investment, the Law on Management and Use of Public Assets, consisting of 10 articles; to implement the policies and orientations of the Party and the State on the development of science, technology, innovation, digital transformation; to reorganize the state apparatus; to promote support, decentralization, delegation of power and reform of administrative procedures on investment, finance and budget; to promptly remove difficulties and obstacles, clear up and effectively use resources for economic development, science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation; to ensure the unity and synchronization of the legal system; to improve the investment and business environment; to promote economic growth.

Improve the quality of staff and civil servants

The Law amends and supplements a number of articles of the Law on the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Law on Trade Unions, the Law on Youth and the Law on Grassroots Democracy, focusing on amending and supplementing a number of articles of 4 Laws directly related to the position, role, functions, rights and responsibilities, organizational structure and organizational principles, and operations of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, and mass organizations assigned tasks by the Party and the State; clearly showing the "subordinate" relationship with the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the principles of democratic consultation, coordination and unified action chaired by the Vietnam Fatherland Front. The Law ensures consistency and synchronization with other laws related to the rights and responsibilities of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, and other member organizations of the Front.

The Law on Cadres and Civil Servants 2025 consists of 7 chapters and 45 articles; aiming to implement the Party's policy on organizing a 2-level local government model, associated with the requirements of streamlining the payroll, restructuring and improving the quality of cadres and civil servants, contributing to building a professional administration, innovating national governance in a modern, effective, efficient and effective direction, focusing on development management to bring the country into a new era.

Notably, regarding the improvement of the mechanism for attracting high-quality human resources and policies for talented people in public service, the Law stipulates policies for two groups of subjects: The group of subjects attracted to the public sector applies to high-quality human resources; the group of subjects are talented people in public service and supplements the State's responsibility in allocating the annual budget to institutionalize the Party's policy on attracting and using talented people.

The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Handling of Administrative Violations consists of 3 articles and adding 2 new articles. Regarding some major and basic contents, the Law amends and supplements regulations on the statute of limitations for handling administrative violations; adds regulations on handling administrative violations in the electronic environment; adds maximum fines in a number of new fields; amends and supplements regulations on the authority to handle administrative violations; amends and supplements a number of regulations to simplify handling procedures. At the same time, the Law also stipulates the handling of exhibits and means of administrative violations in cases where the violator, owner, manager or legal user of the exhibits and means cannot be identified.

The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents consists of 3 articles. The amendment and supplement of the Law is to ensure consistency with the amendment and supplement of a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution, the Law on the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Law on Organization of Local Government and other relevant laws; requiring the promotion of innovation, creating momentum for the rapid and sustainable development of the country.

The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality consists of 3 articles. The Law has relaxed the conditions related to the acquisition of Vietnamese nationality to facilitate cases where the biological father or mother or paternal and maternal grandparents are Vietnamese citizens; foreign investors, scientists, experts... are granted Vietnamese nationality. At the same time, the conditions related to the acquisition of Vietnamese nationality are relaxed to facilitate cases where those who have lost Vietnamese nationality are granted Vietnamese nationality.

Guarantee human rights and civil rights

The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Criminal Procedure Code consists of 2 articles; aiming to perfect the legal basis to ensure consistency with the names, competence, tasks and powers of agencies and persons with authority to conduct criminal proceedings and relevant agencies according to the plan to arrange and streamline the apparatus approved by competent authorities; ensuring timely resolution of a number of urgent issues arising from practice that have been summarized, pointed out and concluded by competent authorities, requiring amendments.

The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Penal Code consists of 4 articles. The amendment and supplement of this Code aims to institutionalize the Party's viewpoint on continuing to build and perfect the socialist rule-of-law state of Vietnam in the new period and the work of fighting, preventing and combating crime; resolving difficulties, obstacles and inadequacies in the practical implementation of the provisions of the current Penal Code that need to be amended immediately.

Specifically, some regulations are not suitable for the socio-economic situation and the reality of the fight against crime; some regulations are not suitable for the new organizational structure and apparatus after implementing the Party and State's policy on apparatus reform; some regulations are not really suitable, not creating the most favorable legal basis for functional agencies to carry out their activities; some regulations on imprisonment and fines do not ensure deterrence, especially for crimes that have had many complicated developments, causing outrage in recent times such as crimes related to drugs, environment, counterfeit goods, hygiene, and food safety.

The Law has fully institutionalized the policies of the Party and the State related to the arrangement and streamlining of the apparatus of competent agencies conducting proceedings and related agencies; institutionalized and immediately implemented the instructions and conclusions of competent authorities to resolve urgent issues arising from practice; ensured compliance with the Constitution and basic principles of criminal procedure law; ensured consistency and uniformity in the legal system; consistent with practice, ensuring synchronous and non-overlapping procedural procedures during implementation.

In order to promptly concretize the Party's policies and directions, the drafting of the Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on the Organization of People's Courts must achieve the purpose and requirement of continuing to institutionalize the Party's policies in Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW, Resolution No. 60-NQ/TW, Conclusion No. 135-KL/TW to arrange and streamline the apparatus, improve the effectiveness and efficiency in the organization and operation of People's Courts at all levels. At the same time, complete the regulations on the functions, tasks and apparatus of the People's Courts to be consistent with the organizational model of the new Court system in accordance with the orientation approved and concluded by competent authorities; ensure compliance with the Constitution and the unity of the legal system; ensure human rights and civil rights.

The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Civil Procedure Code, the Administrative Procedure Law, the Juvenile Justice Law, the Bankruptcy Law and the Law on Mediation and Dialogue at Court, consisting of 6 articles; aims to perfect the legal basis on the Court's authority in litigation activities, ensuring compliance with the Party's policy on streamlining the apparatus. The viewpoint of drafting the Law is to institutionalize and strictly implement the Party's policy on streamlining the apparatus, functions and tasks of the People's Court in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency in the organization and operation of the People's Courts at all levels; ensure compliance with the Constitution and the unity of the legal system; and ensure human rights and civil rights.

The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the People's Procuracy consists of 2 articles. The development of the Law aims to perfect the legal basis for the organization of the People's Procuracy to ensure conformity with the arrangement and streamlining of the apparatus into 3 levels: the Supreme People's Procuracy, the Provincial People's Procuracy, the Regional People's Procuracy according to the Party's policies and to ensure unity and synchronization in the legal system. The development of the Law aims to institutionalize the Party's policies related to the organization, functions and tasks of the People's Procuracy in the resolutions and conclusions of the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat in order to arrange and streamline the organization, improve the effectiveness and efficiency in the organization and operation of the People's Procuracy at all levels and ensure unity and synchronization in the legal system.

The Law on Inspection (amended) consists of 9 chapters and 64 articles; aiming to implement the conclusions and directions of the Central Government on the arrangement of the inspection agency system, eliminating regulations on the Ministry Inspectorate, General Department Inspectorate, Departments under the Ministry, inspection agencies in agencies under the Government, Department Inspectorate, District Inspectorate, organization and operation of agencies assigned to perform specialized inspection functions. Implementing the policy of decentralization and delegation of power in inspection activities, the Law only stipulates contents under the authority of the National Assembly. Contents under the authority of the Government are stipulated in the Decree such as: Appointment and dismissal of inspectors; handling overlaps and duplications in inspection activities; amending and supplementing the inspection plan...

Ordinance amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ordinance on Procedures for Arresting Ships; Ordinance on Procedures for Arresting Aircraft; Ordinance on Procedures for People's Courts to Consider and Decide on Sending Drug Addicts from 12 to Under 18 Years of Age to Compulsory Drug Rehabilitation Facilities; Ordinance on Administrative Sanctions for Acts of Obstructing Litigation Activities; Ordinance on Procedures for Considering and Deciding on the Application of Administrative Measures at People's Courts; Ordinance on Litigation Costs, consisting of 7 articles. The development of the Ordinance project aims to perfect the legal provisions on the authority of People's Courts and agencies in litigation activities according to the new organizational model, ensuring compliance with the Party's policy on streamlining and streamlining the apparatus.

All laws and ordinances take effect from July 1, 2025.

According to baotintuc.vn

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