Plan issued for implementation of e-commerce law
Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Tuc signed Decision No. 776 of the Prime Minister, promulgating the plan to implement the e-commerce law.
The Law on E-commerce No. 122/2025 was passed by the 15th National Assembly at its 10th session in December 2025 and will take effect from July 1, 2026.
To ensure the timely, consistent, and effective implementation of the Law, the Prime Minister has issued a plan to implement the Law on E-commerce. The plan clearly defines tasks, timelines, progress, and responsibilities of relevant agencies and organizations, ensuring timeliness, synchronization, consistency, and effectiveness. It also establishes coordination mechanisms among ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and localities nationwide, while enhancing awareness and responsibility among state management agencies, organizations, businesses, and individuals in complying with e-commerce regulations.
Organizing training, dissemination, and communication of the law
Under the plan, the Ministry of Industry and Trade will take the lead, in coordination with the Central Council for Dissemination and Education of Law, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, provincial and municipal People’s Committees, media agencies, and relevant organizations, to disseminate and promote the contents of the Law on E-commerce and its guiding documents. Activities will be tailored to different target groups and practical conditions throughout 2026 and subsequent years.
The Ministry will also coordinate with relevant stakeholders to organize conferences, workshops, training courses, and capacity-building programs for officials, civil servants, businesses, organizations, and individuals. These activities aim to update legal knowledge and improve implementation skills through in-person, online, or hybrid formats in 2026 and beyond.
Reviewing legal documents
Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and local authorities are responsible for reviewing legal documents related to the Law within their assigned areas of state management. They will amend, supplement, replace, repeal, or newly issue legal documents as necessary, or propose such actions to competent authorities to ensure consistency and alignment with the Law.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade will lead the review within its scope of management and serve as the focal point for consolidating review results and proposals from ministries, sectors, and localities to report to the Prime Minister.
Relevant agencies are required to submit their review results to the Ministry of Industry and Trade before May 10, 2026. The Ministry will compile and report to the Prime Minister in June 2026.
Drafting legal documents
According to the plan, the Ministry of Industry and Trade will take the lead, in coordination with the Government Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, the State Bank of Vietnam, and other relevant bodies, to draft a Government Decree detailing several provisions of the Law on E-commerce.
In addition, the Ministry will coordinate with relevant agencies to draft a decree amending and supplementing provisions on administrative sanctions in commercial activities, including violations in the field of e-commerce, counterfeit and prohibited goods trading, and consumer protection, expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2026.
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