Resources
Law on Forest Protection an Development
This Law provides for the management, protection, development and use of forests and rights and obligations of forest owners.
Law on Urban Planning
The Law on Urban Planning enacted by the National Assembly deals with requirements on urban planning as urban extension management or building norms.
Law on Water Resources
The Law on Water Resources, approved in 1998, represents a major step toward integrated water resources management.
Land Law
This Act lays down basic provisions on land tenure, both rural and urban. All land in Viet Nam is the property of the State, but individual and corporate users, both domestic and foreign, can obtain from the State usufructuary rights under lease-type contractual arrangements (art. 1). Long-term leases, in particular, of cropland are made for twenty years for annual crops and aquaculture, and for fifty years for perennial crops, both terms being renewable on expiry (art. 20).
Environmental Protection Law Implementation Guidelines (Decree 175/1994)
This text contains rules to implement the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act recently approved by the National Assembly.
Environmental Protection Law (Law 52/2005)
This Law provides for activities, policies, measures and resources for environmental protection, and for rights and obligations of organizations and individuals in environmental protection. The Law consists of 15 Chapters divided into 136 articles.
Mineral Law
This Law provides for geological baseline surveys of minerals; protection of unexploited minerals; mineral exploration and mining; state management of minerals in the mainland, islands, internal waters, territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
2011 Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Civil Procedure Code
Pursuant to the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was amended and supplemented under Resolution No. 51/2001/QH10.
Law on Administrative Procedures
This Law provides for fundamental principles in administrative procedures; tasks, powers and responsibilities of procedure-conducting agencies and persons; rights and obligations of procedure participants and related individuals, agencies, organizations; order and procedures for instituting lawsuits, settling administrative cases, enforcing administrative judgments and settling complaints and denunciations in administrative procedures. Hanoi, November 24, 2010
Decree Detailing the Implementation a Number of Articles of the Law on Water Resources
This Decree provides for the collection of opinions of local community representatives when exploiting water resources and discharging wastewater into water sources; baseline study on water resources; granting water permits; Fee for granting water exploitation right and transferring such right; river basin organizations; managing and supervising the exploitation, use, protection of water resources, the prevention and mitigation of negative effects of water on the river basins. Hanoi, November 27, 2013.