Resolution 172: Not concentrating many notary offices in the same area in Vietnam

For notaries

Develop a team of qualified notaries in appropriate numbers to meet social needs, linking the exercise of the notary's professional rights with responsibility before the law and the requester of notarization.

For notarial practice organizations

• Develop notarial practice organizations with controlled operations linked to residential areas, ensuring a timely and full response to the notaryization requirements of individuals and organizations;

• Do not concentrate many notarial practice organizations in the same district;

• Continue to innovate notary offices to ensure agility, rational structure, self-reliance capacity, effective operation, and maintaining a leading and decisive role in the notary service market to serve political tasks and state management;

• Provide support measures for the establishment of notarial practice organizations in economically and socially difficult areas, especially in extremely difficult areas.

For individuals seeking notarization​

Encourage individuals and organizations to carry out notarized contracts and transactions to ensure legal safety for parties participating in contracts and transactions, which contributes to reducing the workload of administrative agencies, downsizing, and state budget expenditure.

For the state

• Enhance the effectiveness of state management of the notarial practice, ensuring the guiding and regulating role of the state in supporting the development of the notarial practice.

• Attach the responsibility of state management agencies for notarization at the local level to controlling the development of notarial practice organizations.

• Standardize notarization procedures along with enhancing the application of information technology in notary activities, moving towards notarizing contracts and transactions in the electronic environment.

• Enhance the coordination responsibility of ministries and sectors with the Ministry of Justice in organizing and conducting notary activities, especially in sharing information and interconnecting administrative procedures.

• Fight against crime, prevent the use of notarization to legalize illegal transactions.

• Promote the self-management responsibility of social organizations - the profession of notaries, especially in combating negative behaviors and violations of the law in notarial professional activities.