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The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) is racing to draft decrees and circulars guiding the implementation of five newly adopted laws in the field of science and technology, with the aim of ensuring that implementing instruments take effect at the same time as the laws themselves.
These five laws were passed by the National Assembly at its year-end session in 2025, including the Law on Digital Transformation; the Law on High Technology (amended); the Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Intellectual Property; the Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Technology Transfer; and the Law on Artificial Intelligence.
The information was shared by Nguyen Nhu Quynh, Director of the Legal Department under MOST, at a recent press briefing.
In the past, situations in which laws had been passed but remained unenforceable for extended periods due to the absence of guiding documents were common, causing many science and technology policies to be slow to enter practice. Quynh noted that delays in issuing detailed implementing regulations had previously posed significant obstacles to law enforcement. “When a law is already in effect but lacks decrees and circulars for guidance, agencies, organizations and businesses are left confused about how to implement it,” she said.
However, the 2025 Law on the Promulgation of Legal Documents, which took effect in April 2025, sets out a clear requirement that documents detailing and guiding the implementation of laws must be formulated and take effect concurrently with the laws themselves. This provides an important legal basis for addressing the long-standing problem of “laws waiting for decrees, decrees waiting for circulars.”
To comply with this requirement, MOST began preparing implementing regulations during the law-drafting process itself. The Ministry has also coordinated with the Ministry of Justice to compile a list of implementing instruments for these five new laws. It is expected that 16 legal documents will be issued, including the Government’s decrees, the Prime Minister’ decisions and the MOST’s circulars.
According to the Director of the Legal Department, units within the MOST have already begun drafting these guiding documents. In parallel, the Minister has instructed relevant units to prepare handbooks and guidance materials on law implementation. These materials will be made publicly available on the Ministry’s portal, enabling organizations, individuals and businesses to access the new regulations early, even before the laws officially take effect.
These efforts come amid the Ministry’s broader push to complete the institutional framework for science, technology, innovation and digital transformation. In 2025, MOST was assigned the responsibility for formulating 10 laws and 23 decrees, all aimed at creating institutional breakthroughs in the science and technology sector.- (VLLF)
