Abolition of Certain Legal Documents Issued by the Prime Minister

Accordingly, the Decision has abolished a total of 39 legal documents issued by the Prime Minister, including:

1. Decision No. 104/2000/QD-TTg dated August 25, 2000, of the Prime Minister on approving the National Strategy for Clean Water Supply and Rural Sanitation up to 2020.

2. Decision No. 63/2002/QD-TTg dated May 20, 2002, of the Prime Minister on flood and storm prevention and mitigation of natural disasters.

3. Decision No. 132/2002/QD-TTg dated October 8, 2002, of the Prime Minister on resolving production and residential land for ethnic minorities residing in the Central Highlands.

4. Decision No. 64/2003/QD-TTg dated April 22, 2003, of the Prime Minister on approving the "Plan for thoroughly handling establishments causing serious environmental pollution."

5. Decision No. 256/2003/QD-TTg dated December 2, 2003, of the Prime Minister on approving the National Strategy on Environment Protection up to 2010 with orientation to 2020.

6. Decision No. 179/2004/QD-TTg dated October 6, 2004, of the Prime Minister on approving the strategy on application and development of natural resource and environment information technology up to 2015 with orientation to 2020.

7. Decision No. 81/2006/QD-TTg dated April 14, 2006 of the Prime Minister on approving the National Strategy on Water Resources to 2020.

8. Decision No. 171/2007/QD-TTg dated November 14, 2007 of the Prime Minister on the establishment of the Cau River Basin Environmental Protection Committee.

9. Decision No. 33/2008/QD-TTg dated February 27, 2008 of the Prime Minister on approving the Development Strategy of Vietnam's Surveying and Mapping Industry to 2020.

10. Decision No. 157/2008/QD-TTg dated December 1, 2008, of the Prime Minister on the establishment of the Environmental Protection Committee for the Dong Nai River System Basin.

11. Decision No. 04/2018/QD-TTg dated January 23, 2018 of the Prime Minister promulgating the Regulation on methods for determining mineral potential assessment costs, mineral exploration costs that must be reimbursed, and reimbursement methods; regulations on the collection, management, and use of mineral potential assessment costs and mineral exploration costs invested by the State.

12. Decision No. 10/2023/QD-TTg dated April 24, 2023 of the Prime Minister stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the General Department of Hydrometeorology under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

13. Decision No. 84/2010/QD-TTg dated December 15, 2010 of the Prime Minister on promulgating the Regulation on oil and gas exploitation.

14. Decision No. 49/2017/QD-TTg dated December 21, 2017 of the Prime Minister on clearing works, equipment and means serving oil and gas activities.

15. Decision No. 34/2018/QD-TTg dated August 10, 2018, of the Prime Minister defining the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the General Department of M under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

16. Decision No. 05/2024/QD-TTg dated March 26, 2024 of the Prime Minister regulating the mechanism for adjusting average retail electricity prices.

17. Decision No. 138/2000/QD-TTg dated November 29, 2000 of the Prime Minister on merging the project of settlement, the project of supporting ethnic minorities in special difficulties, the Program of building commune cluster centers in mountainous and highland areas into the Program of socio-economic development of communes in special difficulties in mountainous and remote areas.

18. Decision No. 69/2008/QD-TTg dated May 28, 2008 of the Prime Minister on approving the addition of the list of particularly disadvantaged communes, border communes, and safe zone communes to the investment scope of Program 135 Phase II and the list of communes excluded from the investment scope of Program 135 Phase II.

19. Decision No. 03/2019/QD-TTg dated January 15, 2019, of the Prime Minister promulgating the criteria for identifying communes and villages that have achieved the objectives of Project 2 (Program 135) under the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the 2016–2020 period.

20. Decision No. 31/2020/QD-TTg dated September 29, 2020, of the Prime Minister amending Article 5 of Decision No. 03/2019/QĐ-TTg dated January 15, 2019, on promulgating the criteria for identifying communes and villages that have achieved the objectives of Project 2 (Program 135) under the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the 2016–2020 period.

21. Decision No. 53/2004/QD-TTg dated April 5, 2004, of the Prime Minister on certain investment incentive policies for the High-Tech Park.

22. Decision No. 14/2008/QD-TTg dated January 22, 2008, of the Prime Minister approving the “Master plan on Biotechnology Development and Application in Vietnam up to 2020.”

23. Decision No. 08/2019/QD-TTg dated February 15, 2019 of the Prime Minister stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the General Department of Standards, Metrology and Quality under the Ministry of Science and Technology.

24. Decision No. 09/2019/QD-TTg dated February 15, 2019 of the Prime Minister stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Hoa Lac High-Tech Park Management Board under the Ministry of Science and Technology.

25. Decision No. 51/2009/QD-TTg dated April 8, 2009 of the Prime Minister stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Permanent Mission of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and other international organizations in Geneva.

26. Decision No. 30/2023/QD-TTg dated December 21, 2023 of the Prime Minister stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

27. Decision No. 31/2023/QD-TTg dated December 21, 2023, of the Prime Minister defining the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the National Border Committee under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

28. Decision No. 769/QD-TTg dated September 18, 1997, of the Prime Minister on the establishment of the Mekong Delta Housing Development Bank.

29. Decision No. 44/2002/QD-TTg dated March 21, 2002, of the Prime Minister on the use of electronic documents as accounting documents for accounting and capital payment of payment service providers.

30. Decision No. 112/2006/QD-TTg dated May 24, 2006, of the Prime Minister approving the Project for the Development of the Vietnam’s banking industry up to 2010 with orientation toward 2020.

31. Decision No. 122/2009/QD-TTg dated October 9, 2009, of the Prime Minister promulgating the Regulations on the Development and Implementation of the National Tourism Promotion Program for 2009–2010.

32. Decision No. 39/2014/QD-TTg dated July 15, 2014, of the Prime Minister defining the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Management Board of the Vietnam Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism.

33. Directive No. 07/2000/CT-TTg dated March 30, 2000 of the Prime Minister on strengthening the maintenance of order, security and environmental sanitation at tourist attractions.

34. Decision No. 139/2002/QD-TTg dated October 15, 2002, of the Prime Minister on medical examination and treatment for the poor.

35. Decision No. 14/2012/QD-TTg dated March 1, 2012, of the Prime Minister amending and supplementing certain articles of Decision No. 139/2002/QD-TTg dated October 15, 2002, on medical examination and treatment for the poor.

36. Decision No. 61/2014/QD-TTg dated October 30, 2014 of the Prime Minister stipulating the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the General Department of Civil Judgment Enforcement under the Ministry of Justice.

37. Decision No. 19/2023/QD-TTg dated August 2, 2023, of the Prime Minister amending and supplementing certain articles of Decision No. 61/2014/QD-TTg dated October 30, 2014, on the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the General Department of Civil Judgment Enforcement under the Ministry of Justice.

38. Decision No. 111/2007/QD-TTg dated 20 July 2007 of the Prime Minister promulgating the Regulation on coordination between the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Industry, ministries, sectors, and provincial People’s Committees in state management of defense industry.

39. Directive No. 33/2006/CT-TTg dated September 8, 2006 of the Prime Minister on combating negativity and overcoming the disease of achievement in education.

According to Deputy Minister of Justice Phan Chi Hieu, in recent years, several ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and local authorities have conducted reviews and identified a number of legal normative documents issued by the Prime Minister that are no longer applied in practice but lack legal grounds to be deemed expired under the Law on Promulgation of Legal Normative Documents. In principle, these documents must still be regarded as “in effect.”

To ensure the openness and transparency of the legal system, and to comply with the rules on the validity of legal documents as prescribed in the Law on Promulgation of Legal Normative Documents No. 64/2025/QH15 (as amended and supplemented by Law No. 87/2025/QH15) and Decree No. 78/2025/ND-CP dated 1 April 2025 detailing several articles and implementation measures of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Normative Documents (as amended and supplemented by Decree No. 187/2025/ND-CP), the issuance of a document to repeal the aforementioned instruments is necessary.

The repeal of legal normative documents that are no longer appropriate is an important task to ensure the transparency and consistency of the legal system, while also facilitating State administration and the activities of citizens and businesses.

Decision No. 44/2025/QD-TTg enters into force on 20 January 2026.