Policies of the Government pertaining to road traffic order and safety in Vietnam from 2025

Policies of the Government pertaining to road traffic order and safety in Vietnam from 2025 (Image from the internet)

Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety 2024 was passed by the National Assembly on June 27, 2024.

Policies of the Government pertaining to road traffic order and safety in Vietnam

- Ensure state budget, facilities, modern means, equipment, and conditions to enhance capacity for the task execution of the forces directly ensuring road traffic order and safety. Mobilize and use resources to ensure road traffic order and safety. Allocate funds accordingly from administrative fines on road traffic order and safety violations and auction proceeds of license plates after submitting to the state budget to strengthen and modernize facilities, means, and equipment, serving to ensure security, order, and road traffic safety as per the regulations of the Government of Vietnam.

- Modernize traffic command centers; ensure connectivity and data sharing of the Road Traffic Order and Safety Database among relevant state agencies.

- Facilitate domestic and foreign agencies, organizations, and individuals to research, apply, and transfer science and technology in ensuring road traffic order and safety, investing, constructing, transferring systems, means, and monitoring equipment for ensuring road traffic order and safety; encourage agencies, organizations, and individuals to voluntarily coordinate in ensuring road traffic order and safety in line with legal regulations, provide information and documents to support the work of ensuring road traffic order and safety and handling legal violations on road traffic order and safety.

- Ensure fairness, equality, and safety for road traffic participants; create favorable conditions for children, pregnant women, the elderly, and disabled individuals participating in road traffic; build traffic culture; educate, disseminate, and foster legal knowledge on road traffic for children and students to form and enhance self-protection awareness and law compliance when participating in road traffic.

- Agencies, organizations, and individuals coordinating, collaborating, supporting, and assisting state agencies in carrying out the task of ensuring road traffic order and safety shall be commended if having achievements, be compensated for asset damages; individuals suffering honor or dignity damages shall be restored; those suffering injuries, health impacts, or loss of life, their families shall enjoy policies as per legal regulations.

- Develop road traffic means concurrently with the development of road infrastructure, socio-economic conditions, and people's travel needs; import, produce, and assemble road traffic means ensuring technical safety quality and environmental protection, in line with technological development trends of road traffic means worldwide; prioritize the development of public transport means, limit the use of private traffic means in large urban areas; prioritize converting vehicles using fossil fuels to electric, green energy, environmentally friendly vehicles and clean energy supply infrastructure.

(Article 4 Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety 2024)

Rules for maintaining road traffic order and safety in Vietnam

- Comply with the Constitution, laws of Vietnam, and international treaties to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a party.

- Ensure road traffic is orderly, safe, and smooth, contributing to socio-economic development, national defense, security, and environmental protection; prevent legal violations on road traffic order and safety, road traffic accidents, and congestion; protect the lives, health, and properties of individuals and the assets of agencies, organizations.

- Ensuring road traffic order and safety is the responsibility of agencies, organizations, and individuals.

- Road traffic participants must comply with legal regulations on road traffic order and safety, related laws, and are responsible for ensuring their own safety and that of others.

- Any violation of the law on road traffic order and safety must be promptly detected, prevented, and strictly dealt with as per legal regulations.

- Activities ensuring road traffic order and safety must be public, transparent, and convenient for the people.

- The work of ensuring road traffic order and safety is uniformly carried out based on the distribution, division of duties, in line with the functions and tasks, and close coordination among relevant agencies, organizations, and individuals.

(Article 3 Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety 2024)

More details can be found in the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety 2024, taking effect on January 01, 2025.

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