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On the afternoon of May 13, in Hanoi, the Office of the President held a press conference to announce the Presidents Order on 9 laws passed by the First Session of the 16th National Assembly. Download Overview of the press conferenceThese laws include: Capital Law (amended); Law on Access to Information (amended); Law on Civil Status (amended); Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Emulation and Commendation; Law on Belief and Religion (amended); Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Representative Agencies of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam abroad; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Personal Income Tax, Law on Value Added Tax, Law on Corporate Income Tax and Law on Special Consumption Tax; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Notary Law; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Legal Aid. Deputy Head of the Presidents Office Can Dinh Tai chaired the Press Conference. Creating a breakthrough for Hanoi to develop in the new era Capital Law (amended) includes 9 chapters, 36 articles, effective from July 1, 2026; is expected to create an important legal corridor, promoting Hanois development worthy of the political, economic, and cultural center of the country. Notably, the Law amends regulations in the direction of radical and comprehensive decentralization for the city government to regulate and decide on contents within its authority in fields to increase the initiative, creativity, autonomy, and self-responsibility of the city government such as: organization, apparatus; budget revenues and expenditures, especially regulations that create conditions to attract resources for the capitals development; Carry out urban planning, embellishment and reconstruction; management and use of resources; application of digital technology, big data, artificial intelligence; develop and link the Capital region; medical and cultural development; ensuring social order and safety, including the application of urgent administrative measures appropriate to the position and role of the Capital. Accordingly, the Peoples Council and Peoples Committee of the City are issued documents to adjust the order, procedures, and authority to handle administrative procedures specified in documents of superior agencies to carry out the tasks and powers of local authorities, ensure requirements for administrative reform, simplify procedures, promote science and technology, and innovate. innovation, digital transformation, does not create additional documents, conditions, requirements or prolong the time to resolve administrative procedures. At the same time, the city is allowed to issue legal documents stipulating specific measures to organize and guide the implementation of laws and resolutions of the National Assembly that are different or do not have regulations of the Government, Prime Minister, ministries, and ministerial-level agencies. The promulgation of these documents must comply with strict order and procedures; ensure inspection, supervision and accountability mechanisms according to regulations...Access to Information Law 2026 includes 4 chapters and 31 articles, effective from September 1, 2026; in order to continue to institutionalize the Partys policies and guidelines on promoting socialist democracy and the peoples right to mastery, especially implementing the motto people know, people discuss, people do, people check, people supervise, people enjoy... Notably, the Law adjusts the scope and responsibility of providing information of local governments in accordance with practice and the new organizational model after the arrangement; expand the scope of information that must be made public; through the addition of important information groups, directly linked to the daily life, production and business of people and businesses; Clearly delineate the scope of information citizens can access, cannot access, and have conditional access, ensuring harmony between citizens right to access information and the requirements to protect state secrets, national security, and personal data protection; diversify forms of publicity and information provision, and encourage the application of electronic methods to better ensure citizens right to access information in the digital environment... People have the right to request civil status registration at any commune-level Peoples Committee. With 4 chapters, 30 articles, effective from March 1, 2027, the Law on Civil Status (amended) has many basic innovations in both legislative thinking, management model and implementation methods. Notably, the Law has thoroughly decentralized power, associated with increasing the responsibility of grassroots governments, the authority to register all events and civil status information in the country is assigned to the commune-level Peoples Committee. People have the right to request civil status registration at any commune-level Peoples Committee, regardless of place of residence or administrative boundary. The law stipulates promoting the digitization of civil status data and establishing the legal value of electronic civil status data, defining the principle that people only provide information once, state agencies are responsible for exploiting, sharing and using existing data to handle administrative procedures, instead of requiring people to provide many types of documents as before. Here. The law has shifted from the passive management method to active service with regulations on active birth and death registration on the basis of connection and data sharing between medical examination and treatment facilities and the electronic civil status registration and management system... Focusing on rewarding individuals, groups andSupporting ethnic minorities and mountainous areas The Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Emulation and Commendation includes 4 articles, effective
