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On 23 April 2026, the Ministry of Justice organized a ceremony to launch the National Legal Database (new version), the information system supporting a comprehensive review of legal normative documents, and a conference to implement a nationwide review of the regulatory text system.
The National Legal Database (new version) has been comprehensively restructured, with management details down to each article, provision, and point. All data is now presented in a standardized language format used by leading legal systems globally, positioning the system not only as a repository but also as a platform capable of interconnecting with other digital systems.
With the restructuring and standardization, the content of documents is transformed into “structured data,” enabling machine reading, understanding, and automatic processing.
The restructuring is described as especially important given the nationwide review of normative legal documents, which involves large volume, broad scope, and high precision requirements. For the first time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is applied extensively to help ensure data quality according to the standard “Right - Complete - Clean - Live,” while also enabling data to be exploited optimally, efficiently, and accurately.
The National Legal Database supports individuals and organizations in searching normative texts in an intuitive, depth-rich, multi-dimensional, interconnected way, and in tracking regulatory changes over time. It is also intended to ensure transparency and public access to Vietnam’s legal system.
For state agencies, the database is designed to assist in managing normative texts and to support drafting, checking, reviewing, systematizing, legal dissemination, and other law-enforcement activities.
On the standardized data platform, the National Legal Database is positioned as a core component of the Vietnam Legal Platform. The data infrastructure is described as essential to serve the nationwide review of normative legal texts.
In the next phase, the National Legal Database is envisioned as a leading digital-legal knowledge platform with five strategic pillars: (i) complete the full digitization lifecycle of legal texts; (ii) develop an interconnected ecosystem for sharing legal data; (iii) promote AI applications in legal analysis and warnings; (iv) form a national big data platform for law; and (v) create digital-legal knowledge serving the whole society.
From a standardized technology base, integrated AI, and interconnected connectivity, the database is described as moving beyond a traditional information system toward a national digital-legal knowledge infrastructure, where data is “activated,” transformed into knowledge, supporting actions and building legal trust for society.
As of 23 April 2026, the National Legal Database (new version) is officially operated at: https://vbpl.vn.
At the ceremony, delegates performed the launching ritual for the National Legal Database (new version) and the information system supporting the nationwide review of normative legal texts.
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