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From July 1, 2025, Decree 104/2025/ND -CP details a number of articles and measures to implement the official notary law. The new point of this law and this Decree is electronic notarization, helping people reduce administrative procedures in civil transactions such as real estate procedures, wills ... Mr. Dao Duy An, General Secretary of the Vietnam Notary Association to better understand this issue, the Government Electronic Newspaper has an interview with Mr. Dao Duy An, General Secretary of Vietnam Notary Congress. What is each other? Is the process of performing electronic notaries easily for people? Mr. Dao Duy An: Electronic notarization can be understood as notarization completely done on electronic environment, not using papers and producing a notarized document in electronic form. This document is valid as paper document, but people can send and receive via means such as email, Zalo messages or submit applications for administrative procedures on electronic environments. Electronic electronics are easy to perform, any citizen can use smartphones can be done, similar to sending, receiving emails or texting. Instead of using pens and paper. In addition, the online notarization process allows people to perform transactions in different locations nationwide without having to move. For example, sitting in Hanoi can sign a real estate transfer contract to others in Phu Quoc without flying into Phu Quoc to sign as before. Can he more clearly state the factors that the notarized benefits bring? What will people benefit when performing electronic notaries? Mr. Dao Duy An: The current national public service portal provides more than 4,000 online public services, the input of these public services is electronic documents. The electronic notarization document allows people to perform online public services (e.g. registration for real estate, mortgage ...). Online electronic evidence helps people not to move much when trading at a distance of geography, for example, the authorization from the Embassy and Consulate of Vietnam from abroad to Vietnam or from provinces and cities to other provinces and cities. It is estimated that each year Vietnam has about 8 million notarized records, if the whole is transferred to the electronic notarization, the storage cost can save society at least VND 300 billion. Electronic evidence also helps the real estate trading on online trading platforms are convenient and safe, closed to the trading process and online real estate registration. The real estate transaction of investors will save more time and cost significantly than the traditional way of doing the right awareness and the right act of electronic notarization using modern security measures such as data encryption, identity and digital signatures. This minimizes the risk of fake and fraud, while improving the reliability of transactions. What do you think about the above judgment? Mr. Dao Duy An: The authenticity of electronic identities and using digital signatures is an indispensable trend, the Party and the State are advocating the popularization of these activities. Currently, citizens can be granted free digital signatures through VNEID application, very convenient to sign contracts, transactions and public services on the National Public Service Portal. These security measures have been proven to be safe and widely used in life, from bank transactions to business operations in state agencies. Increasing the effectiveness of electronic notarization activities? Mr. Dao Duy An: At present, the legal corridor of electronic notarization has been established, but in order for this activity to be implemented effectively, I think that it is necessary to have the right awareness and the right action.The electronic certificate in Vietnam always ensures the principle of notaries directly see the notarization requester. The current online notarization process helps people perform transactions in different locations but always have a direct presence of the notary, meaning that at each location, there will be a notarization of the witness.However, this process is being misunderstood and the media mistakenly confuses that the notary public does not directly meet the notary request, thereby raising doubts about the authenticity of the transaction. This deviation needs to be clearer and more accurate for society to understand and choose and do it correctly.In addition, it is necessary to promulgate data connection standards soon, guide the selection and implementation of the electronic notarization platform, the notarized data reference portal to be able to promptly implement this activity when the notarization law takes effect in July. Thank you.
