Mr. Pham Thanh Ha - Deputy Head of the Office of the President - chaired the Press Conference - Photo: VGP/Duc Tuan
1/ Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Election of National Assembly Deputies and People's Council Deputies;
2/ Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Criminal Procedure Code;
3/ Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Penal Code,
4/ Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of People's Courts;
5/ Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents:
6/ 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 Implementing Democracy at Grassroots Level;
7/ Law on Cadres and Civil Servants;
8/ Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality;
9/ Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Handling of Administrative Violations;
10/ Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of 11 laws on military and national defense;
11/ Law on Inspection;
12/ 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;
13/ Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Civil Procedure Code, the Law on Administrative Procedure, the Law on Juvenile Justice, the Bankruptcy Law and the Law on Mediation and Dialogue at Court;
14/ Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of People's Procuracy;
15/ Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Enterprises;
16/ 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 the organizational apparatus of agencies in the political system.
Senior Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung - Deputy Minister of Public Security - informed at the press conference - Photo: VGP/Duc Tuan
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 to carry out 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.
Minimize virtual capital, increase transparency in business operations
The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Enterprise Law 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 in a favorable, safe and transparent manner. The Law amends a number of provisions to enhance the responsibility of agencies and localities in state management of enterprises, especially "post-inspection" to minimize the situation of virtual capital, fake capital, and increase transparency in enterprise operations.
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, and 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; and to promote economic growth.
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.
Officially abolish demotion and salary reduction as a form of disciplinary action against officials and civil servants.
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.
The Law completes regulations on disciplinary action against officials and civil servants, eliminates the form of disciplinary action of demotion for leaders and managers, and does not stipulate salary reduction as a form of disciplinary action.
Additional maximum fines in some new areas
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.
Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Thanh Tu informed at the press conference - Photo: VGP/Duc Tuan
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.
Double fines for 24 crimes
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 Law abolishes the death penalty for 8 crimes (Crime of activities aimed at overthrowing the people's government (Article 109); Crime of espionage (Article 110); Crime of sabotaging the material and technical facilities of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Article 114); Crime of producing and trading in counterfeit medicines and preventive medicines (Article 194); Crime of illegally transporting narcotics (Article 250); Crime of embezzlement of property (Article 353); Crime of accepting bribes (Article 354); Crime of undermining peace and waging aggressive wars (Article 421).
Particularly for the crimes of embezzlement and bribery, after abolishing the death penalty, in order to ensure the recovery of assets obtained from crimes and at the same time encourage criminals to actively report during the process of resolving cases, the Law has amended and supplemented the provisions in Clause 1, Article 63 in the direction: "A person sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of embezzlement or bribery can only be considered for a reduction in the term of serving the sentence when he has proactively returned at least 3/4 of the embezzled or bribed assets and has actively cooperated with the authorities in detecting, investigating, and handling crimes or has made great achievements".
In addition, the Law doubles the fine for 24 crimes, focusing on crimes related to counterfeit goods, the environment, food safety, and corruption.
In addition, the Law also increases the prison sentence in 8 articles of the current Penal Code, focusing on groups of crimes related to the environment, drugs, and food safety.
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 restructuring and streamlining the apparatus.
The viewpoint of drafting the Law is to institutionalize and strictly implement the Party's policy on streamlining the organization, functions and tasks of the People's Court 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.
Deputy Minister of Finance Ho Sy Hung introduces new content of the Enterprise Law - Photo: VGP/Duc Tuan
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, and the Regional People's Procuracy according to the Party's policy and to 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.
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