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Prime Minister Le Minh Hung chaired a meeting with the Ministry of Justice to review progress since the start of 2026 and to set near-term directions and tasks. The discussion focused on building and completing a cohesive, modern, and competitive legal development framework to support a breakthrough and meet the demand for sustainable two-digit growth.
Delegates assessed achievements, clarified difficulties and challenges facing the justice sector, identified obstacles and long-standing issues requiring resolution, and reviewed proposals the Ministry of Justice would submit to the Government and the Prime Minister, along with priorities and measures for implementation.
In his closing remarks, the Prime Minister said the 14th Party Congress continues to identify institutional reform as one of three strategic breakthroughs. He emphasized the need to comprehensively and synchronously improve the legal framework, build a high-quality modern legal system consistent with international practice, and implement it consistently. As the “gatekeeper” of the legal framework, the Ministry of Justice was described as playing a crucial role in advising on lawmaking and reform, especially given high workload and tight timelines.
The Prime Minister praised the Ministry of Justice’s efforts in early 2026, when the workload was described as very urgent. He noted that the Ministry advised competent authorities on major reform proposals and completed and submitted 24 legal documents. He also said seven laws and resolutions were passed by the National Assembly at the first session, and that many regulatory bottlenecks were addressed in a timely manner.
He further highlighted that the Ministry proactively proposed measures to overcome delays in issuing detailed regulations. Work continued—he cited civil procedure, asset recovery in corruption and economic cases, legal administration, international law, digital transformation, and scientific research—with positive results.
Alongside achievements, the Prime Minister pointed to shortcomings that require prompt correction. These include slower-than-expected drafting and appraisal quality and timelines for several normative legal documents, and less coherent inter-ministerial cooperation. He also said the use of digital technologies, big data, and AI in drafting and enforcement remains limited.
The Prime Minister said near-term priorities should be grounded in institutional reform to sustain two-digit growth. He first stressed the need to build a clean and robust Party organization, review and amend regulations, and renew working style to improve quality and efficiency.
He directed the Ministry of Justice to focus on developing a Strategy to complete Vietnam’s legal system in the new era with a vision to 2045. The Strategy is to be reported to the Government’s Standing Committee by October 15, 2026. He also asked for regular monitoring of drafting progress and for proposing bills for consideration at the second session of the 16th National Assembly in 2026, with special attention to the Procurement Law, Public Investment Law, Budget Law, Land Law, Electricity Law, and the Law on Issuing normative legal documents, as well as land-use planning.
The Prime Minister instructed the Ministry of Justice to ensure functional engagement and independent, thorough appraisal to avoid overlapping responsibilities among ministries, and to ensure newly issued regulations are practical and enforceable. He urged modernization and stronger coordination with other ministries and agencies, including requiring drafting ministries to study and incorporate all appraisal inputs from the Ministry of Justice and explain them. He also called for ensuring documents can be applied, and avoiding immediate amendments or non-implementation.
He directed the Ministry of Justice and the Government Office to screen drafts carefully before submission to the Government and the Prime Minister, and to use direct discussions to resolve issues quickly. He emphasized that documents should not be issued if they cannot be implemented, and that the Ministry of Justice must confirm whether files are ready for submission.
The Prime Minister also directed the Ministry of Justice to monitor and report progress on Directive 36 on discipline in drafting and issuing detailed regulations. He asked for public disclosure of delays and their causes, and for preparation of measures to handle legal documents expiring on March 1, 2027 to ensure continuity. He further requested focusing resources on reviewing normative documents, accelerating appraisal results, and presenting progress to the Prime Minister by July 31, 2026, while studying mechanisms to expand if effective.
The Prime Minister asked for acceleration of reform and digital transformation across the Ministry of Justice and the entire sector. He directed completion of data consolidation across national and specialized databases by May 2026, including standardizing, cleaning, and updating data. The goal is to ensure data is accurate, complete, clean, live, connected, shareable, and reusable.
He also called for continuing implementation of administrative procedure control and simplification of business conditions, ensuring KPIs are met and that no new red tape is created after simplification.
The Prime Minister directed upgrading enforcement of civil judgments, administrative law enforcement, and asset recovery. He said governance should be strengthened to unleash financial resources for dispute resolution, while the legal framework and governance in the field of support for law should continue to improve.
He also called for expanding international legal cooperation and dispute resolution, building elite legal professionals, and coordinating with the Ministry of Finance to issue a decree guiding implementation of the investment treaty framework.
On the legal profession and capacity building, the Prime Minister called for continued strengthening of organization, staffing, and training. He instructed completion of a Strategy to build a large legal database and an AI application plan by May 2026 for submission to the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Justice to lead, together with other ministries and local authorities, in studying a centralized and professional drafting model and to present it to the Prime Minister by September 2026.
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