Vietnam’s Law on National Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization 2024, effective as of July 1, 2025

Vietnam’s Law on National Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization 2024, effective as of July 1, 2025  

The application of the Law on National Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization and relevant laws is as follows:  

(1) The operations of the national defense and security industry and industrial mobilization shall comply with the Law on National Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization and relevant laws. 

(2) Where there are discrepancies between the Law on National Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization and other laws regarding the same matter, the Law on National Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization shall prevail with respect to the following contents: 

- Distribution of profit after tax of enterprises; transfer of sources of budget for procurement and manufacture of technical weapons and gear with strategic meaning, and special professional-technical equipment; 

- Assignment of tasks and placement of orders for the manufacture of national defense and security products; methods of selecting contractors for bidding packages for the manufacture and provision of national defense and security products; Appraisal Councils for projects of group A; methods of selecting investors and contractors for programs and projects on investment in and procurement of supplies for manufacturing for the national defense and security industry with contents determined as state secrets classified as “secret” or above; negotiation and conclusion of contracts for receipt of transfers of technologies, joint venture, and association with foreign partners; 

- Competence in approving and concluding contracts for the implementation of national scientific and technological tasks; reserve budget estimates for scientific and technological tasks for research on and manufacture of technical weapons and gear with strategic meaning and special professional-technical equipment;  

- Prices of technical weapons and gear and professional-technical equipment when applying the general pricing method with specific contents; designation of suppliers and application of price negotiation to the procurement of sample products, supplies, and special semi-finished products for manufacture concerning national defense and security; 

- Exemption from civil responsibilities when engaging in activities of science, technology, and creative innovation severing the national defense and security industry; benefits and policies applicable to leading scientists, leading specialists, and chief engineers; 

- Benefits and policies applicable to workers in facilities of core national defense industry and facilities of core security industry. 

(3) In case laws promulgated after the effective date of the Law on National Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization stipulate specific regulations on the national defense and security industry and industrial mobilization different from the Law on National Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization, it is mandatory to specify contents that must comply with the Law on National Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization and vice versa and contents that must comply with such laws, excluding Clause (2) mentioned above. 

See more details in the Law on National Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization 2024, effective as of July 1, 2025. 

The Ordinance on National Defense Industry, amended by Ordinance No. 01/2018/UBTVQH14, and the Ordinance on Industrial Mobilization No. 09/2003/PL-UBTVQH11 shall be annulled from the effective date of the Law on National Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization. 

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