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Environmental protection reporting is a mandatory requirement for manufacturing projects under environmental protection laws. During project implementation, enterprises must accurately identify the subjects required to report, types of reports, reporting contents, submission deadlines, and competent receiving authorities to ensure legal compliance and mitigate legal risks. This article summarizes and analyzes the current legal regulations, assisting project owners and manufacturing facilities in fully and timely fulfilling their environmental protection reporting obligations.   1. Subjects, types, and contents of reports 5   Project owners are responsible for preparing and submitting environmental protection reports to competent state authorities in accordance with the law.   Environmental protection reports include:     Annual environmental protection reports, with the reporting period calculated from January 1 to December 31 of the reporting year; ...

Employment service activities have long been classified as a conditional business line, uniformly applicable to both domestic enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises. The scope of activities includes job consultancy and placement services; provision and supply of labor to employers; as well as the collection, analysis, storage, and provision of labor market information. However, the Law on Investment 2025 has removed this sector from the List of Conditional Business Lines, thereby paving the way for future adjustments and improvements to the relevant legal framework. The evolution of regulatory conditions governing employment service activities over the past 10 years is as follows:   1. The Law on Investment 2014 , effective from July 1, 2015, classified employment service activities as a conditional business line. At the same time, the Law on Employment 2013 (effective from January 1, 2015), together with Decree No. 52/2014/ND-CP and Decree No. 23/2021/ND-CP,r...

Ad hoc arbitration is a dispute resolution mechanism whereby the disputing parties agree to appoint arbitrator(s) to resolve their dispute instead of initiating proceedings before a court. Unlike institutional arbitration, ad hoc arbitration does not have a permanent seat or its own procedural rules but is established based on the parties’ agreement solely for the purpose of resolving a specific dispute. This form of arbitration is commonly applied to commercial disputes or other disputes that are permitted by law to be resolved by arbitration.   Due to the fact that ad hoc arbitration is not associated with a permanent arbitral institution, Vietnamese law provides for a mechanism to register ad hoc arbitral awards with the court as a necessary procedural step. This mechanism serves as a legal basis for requesting the civil judgment enforcement authority to organize the enforcement of the arbitral award, while also enabling the court to verify the authenti...

The 2025-2026 Digital Era marks a major turning point in Vietnam’s digital legal ecosystem with the simultaneous enactment of central laws: the Law on Data 2024, the Law on Personal Data Protection 2025, the Law on Cybersecurity 2025, the Law on Artificial Intelligence 2025, and the Law on Digital Technology Industry 2025. Legislative thinking has officially shifted from creating a relaxed corridor to encourage development to tightening risk management and applying exceptionally strict penalties for data and technology issues.   The article below summarizes the general legal framework for data in Vietnam based on the latest regulations..   1. Law on Data 2024:   The Law on Data 2024 officially stipulates the strategic mindset: Data is a resource, and the State has a policy to mobilize all resources to enrich data and develop data into an asset. This Law establishes a clear mechanism separating the roles between the Data Owner (propert...