The Law on E-Transactions 2023 has created a new legal framework for e-signatures, including public digital signatures which are now widely used by enterprises in conducting procedures relative to tax, customs, and social insurance and in signing e-contracts. Guiding public digital signatures, Decree 23/2025/ND-CP regulating e-signatures and trust services will take effect from April 10, 2025.

Currently, most administrative procedures are carried out online, including the procedures for business registration and change of business registration contents. Regarding this matter, on February 13, 2025, the Business Registration Office – Ha Noi Department of Planning and Investment issued Notice 207/TB-DKKD to guide the supplement and update of Identity Card/Citizen Identity information of legal representatives, heads of subordinate units, owners of private enterprises, data cleaning for issuance of electronic identification for enterprises within Ha Noi.

Within the scope of the Law on Investment 2020 amended in 2024, Article 36a has been updated to stipulate the groups of investment projects that are eligible for registering under special procedure upon satisfaction of specific conditions. Accordingly, from January 15, 2025, investors implementing projects regulated by the new procedure will be entitled to more preferential policies as many licenses and administrative procedures related to investment policy approval, environment, construction planning, fire prevention and fighting, and a number of other procedures under law are eliminated. In order to provide specific guidance on the implementation of the above regulations, Decree 19/2025/ND-CP detailing the Law on Investment regarding special investment procedures was issued and effective from February 10, 2025.

On January 6, 2025, the Government promulgated Decree 05/2025/ND-CP amending and supplementing several articles of Decree 08/2022/ND-CP dated January 10, 2022 on elaboration of certain articles of the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 (Decree 05). Decree 05 took effect on January 6, 2025 with several amended and supplemented regulations related to environmental impact assessment.

On November 6, 2024, the Minister of Finance issued Circular 76/2024/TT-BTC guiding the information disclosure and report on offering and trading privately-placed corporate bonds in the domestic market and offering corporate bonds to the international market.

On September 30, 2024, Circular 06/2024/TT-BKHCN was issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology to amend and supplement Circular 11/2015/TT-BKHCN providing guidelines for Decree 99/2013/ND-CP on administrative sanctions in industrial property.