Regulations on the organizational structure of the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam from March 1, 2025

Regulations on the organizational structure of the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam from March 1, 2025​ (Image from internet)

On February 26, 2025, the Government of Vietnam issued Decree 39/2025/ND-CP regulating the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Justice.

Regulations on the organizational structure of the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam from March 1, 2025

Decree 39/2025/ND-CP stipulates that the Ministry of Justice is an agency of the Government of Vietnam, executing state management functions on: Legal construction; organization of law enforcement; execution of civil judgments; judicial administration; judicial assistance; legal affairs; state management of public service activities in fields under the ministry’s state management scope.

Article 3 of Decree 39/2025/ND-CP stipulates that from March, 1, 2025, the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam includes following bodies:

(1) Department of Legislative Documents Construction.

(2) Criminal-Administrative Law Department.

(3) Civil-Economic Law Department.

(4) International Law Department.

(5) Department of Personnel Organization.

(6) International Cooperation Department.

(7) Ministry Inspectorate.

(8) Ministry Office.

(9) Civil Judgment Execution Management Department.

(10) Department for Document Inspection and Administrative Violation Management.

(11) Department for Legal Dissemination, Education, and Legal Assistance.

(12) Judicial Administration Department.

(13) Department for Secured Transaction Registration and State Compensation.

(14) Judicial Assistance Department.

(15) Planning-Finance Department.

(16) Information Technology Department.

(17) Institute of Legal Strategy and Science.

(18) Judicial Academy.

(19) Democracy and Law Journal.

(20) Vietnam Law Newspaper.

Organizations defined from (1) to (16) are administrative organizations assisting the Minister in executing state management functions; organizations defined from (17) to (20) are public service providers serving state management under the ministry.

The Department of Legislative Documents Construction has 03 divisions, Criminal-Administrative Law Department has 03 divisions, Civil-Economic Law Department has 04 divisions, International Law Department has 04 divisions, Department of Personnel Organization has 05 divisions, International Cooperation Department has 03 divisions.

The Minister of Justice stipulates the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the units under the ministry and submits to the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam the issuance of the list of other public service providers under the ministry.

Tasks and powers of the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam in legal construction work

- Submit to the Government of Vietnam draft strategies, projects to build and perfect the legal system;

- Develop expectations of the Government of Vietnam’s legal construction program on matters under the Government's function, task, power scope; plan the lead agency, coordinating agency for drafting legal projects, ordinances for submission to the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam for decision;

- Appraise, participate in building, comment on the proposal for drafting legal normative documents and draft, draft legal normative documents according to legal regulations and assignments by the Government, Prime Minister;

- Prepare a list of detailed regulatory documents for laws, resolutions of the National Assembly, ordinances, resolutions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, orders, decisions of the President for submission to the Prime Minister of the Government for decision; notify the People's Council, People's Committee of provinces, cities under central authority on the list of contents assigned to be detailed by the locality;

- Develop, issue or submit to competent authority for issuing regulations on drafting techniques of legal normative documents; coordinate in training, fostering, instructing, building a team of professional legal drafting cadres;

- Direct, monitor, guide professionally, inspect legal construction work according to legal regulations.

(Clause 6, Article 2 of Decree 39/2025/ND-CP)

More details can be found in Decree 39/2025/ND-CP effective from March 01, 2025.

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