Principles for establishing, managing, and maintaining the National Law Database of Vietnam

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1. Principles for Establishing, Managing, and Maintaining the National Law Database of Vietnam

According to Article 7 of Decree 52/2015/ND-CP, the principles for establishing, managing, and maintaining the National Law Database of Vietnam are as follows:

• The National Law Database of Vietnam is constructed centrally and uniformly.

• The National Law Database of Vietnam is managed strictly, ensuring safety and long-term storage.

• The National Law Database of Vietnam is continuously and stably maintained to meet the requirements of accessing and using the documents of agencies, organizations, and individuals.

2. Information of Documents in the National Law Database of Vietnam

The information of documents in the National Law Database of Vietnam as per Article 3 of Decree 52/2015/ND-CP includes:

• Documents in the National Law Database of Vietnam:

  • Legal normative documents issued or jointly issued by central state agencies and legal normative documents issued by provincial People's Councils and People's Committees as regulated in the Law on Promulgation of Legal Normative Documents 2015;

  • The unified legal normative documents (hereinafter referred to as unified documents).

• Basic information of legal normative documents:

  • Number, symbol, summary, content of the document, type of document, issuing authority, name of the signatory, title of the signatory, date of issuance, effective date, status of effectiveness;

  • Related documents include the legal basis for issuance and documents referenced in the document;

  • History of changes in the effectiveness of the document;

  • Other necessary information (if any).

• Basic information of unified documents:

  • Number, symbol, summary, content of the document, type of unified document, unifying authority, name of the certifier, title of the certifier, date of certification;

  • Amended, supplemented documents and amending, supplementing documents;

  • Other necessary information (if any).

3. Regulations on Operating, Maintaining, Monitoring, Upgrading, and Developing the National Law Database of Vietnam

Regulations on operating, maintaining, monitoring, upgrading, and developing the National Law Database of Vietnam as per Article 9 of Decree 52/2015/ND-CP are as follows:

• Ensure the information infrastructure system, related devices, and environment for installing and operating the National Law Database of Vietnam.

• Implement measures to ensure the physical and environmental safety at the Electronic Data Center. Control activities entering and leaving this area.

• Implement backup measures to ensure the ability to recover the system in case of incidents. Backup data must be protected safely and periodically checked and tested for system recovery from the backup data to be ready for use when necessary.

• Implement maintenance, repair, and upkeep measures to ensure the National Law Database of Vietnam operates continuously 24 hours a day, every day.

• Perform monitoring activities to warn against safety violations of the National Law Database of Vietnam.

• Periodically review, propose plans to upgrade and develop the hardware and software infrastructure systems of the National Law Database of Vietnam to meet actual needs.

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