Supplementing the state management function over the control of administrative procedures
Decree No. 09/2026/ND-CP clearly states that the Ministry of Justice is a Government agency performing the state management functions over: law-making; organization of law enforcement; civil judgment enforcement; judicial administration; judicial support activities; legal affairs; control of administrative procedures (APs); and state management of public service delivery in the fields under the state management scope of the Ministry. Accordingly, the Ministry of Justice is assigned an additional function relating to the control of administrative procedures.
The Ministry of Justice performs its tasks and powers in accordance with the Law on Organization of the Government, the Government's regulations on the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of ministries and ministerial-level agencies, and 23 specific tasks and powers.
These include: submitting to the Government draft laws and resolutions of the National Assembly, draft ordinances and resolutions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly; draft decrees and resolutions of the Government; draft decisions of the Prime Minister in the fields under its management scope in accordance with the annually approved law-making programs and plans, and other projects and schemes as assigned by the Government and the Prime Minister; submitting to the Government and the Prime Minister strategies, master plans, programs, long-term, five-year and annual development plans, and important national projects; submitting to the Prime Minister draft decisions and directives in the fields under the Ministry’s state management scope; promulgating circulars, decisions, directives, and other documents within the Ministry’s state management scope; directing, monitoring, providing professional guidance, inspecting, and organizing the implementation of normative legal documents, strategies, master plans, programs, plans, projects, and schemes that have been approved and fall within the Ministry’s state management scope; directing and organizing the implementation of information technology application and digital transformation; developing digital infrastructure and ensuring network information safety and security; building e-Government and digital Government; managing, developing, connecting, sharing, and exploiting data and information in the fields under the Ministry’s state management scope; developing, managing, and operating the National Legal Portal in accordance with law; civil judgment enforcement and administrative judgment enforcement; judicial administration…
On law-making activities
The Ministry of Justice is assigned to: submit to the Government draft strategies and schemes for the development and improvement of the legal system; prepare the Government’s proposed law-making program regarding matters falling within the functions, tasks, and powers of the Government; propose the designation of the lead drafting agency and coordinating agencies for draft laws, ordinances, and resolutions for submission to the Prime Minister for decision; appraise, participate in the drafting of, and provide opinions on policy proposals and draft normative legal documents in accordance with law and the assignment of the Government and the Prime Minister; prepare the list of documents detailing the implementation of laws and resolutions of the National Assembly, ordinances and resolutions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, orders and decisions of the President for submission to the Prime Minister for decision; notify the People’s Councils and People’s Committees of provinces and centrally run cities of the list of matters assigned to localities for detailed regulation; develop and promulgate, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, regulations on drafting techniques of normative legal documents; carry out training, refresher courses, and capacity-building, and develop a professional contingent of drafters of normative legal documents in accordance with law; direct, monitor, provide professional guidance, and conduct inspection of law-making activities in accordance with law.
On the organization of law enforcement
The Ministry of Justice is assigned the following tasks: advising the Government and the Prime Minister on measures to organize the implementation of law; deploying measures to organize the implementation of law in accordance with law and the assignment of the Government and the Prime Minister; directing, monitoring, providing professional guidance, and inspecting the implementation of the following activities: dissemination and education of law; inspection; review, systematization, consolidation, and codification of normative legal documents; monitoring the implementation of normative legal documents; handling of administrative violations; access to information; grassroots mediation; assessment and recognition of communes, wards, and special administrative units meeting standards on access to law in accordance with law; performing the tasks of the standing body of the Central Council for Coordination of Law Dissemination and Education; recognizing and relieving law reporters of duty in accordance with law; assisting the Government and the Prime Minister in conducting self-examination of documents promulgated by, or jointly promulgated by, the Government and the Prime Minister in accordance with law; assisting the Government in examining normative legal documents promulgated by Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, People’s Councils, People’s Committees at the provincial level, Chairs of People’s Committees at the provincial level, and local authorities in special administrative–economic units in accordance with law; assisting the Government in examining regulatory contents within the sectors and fields under the management of ministries and ministerial-level agencies in joint circulars between Ministers or Heads of ministerial-level agencies and the Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court, the Procurator General of the Supreme People’s Procuracy, and the State Auditor General; recommending the handling of unlawful documents in accordance with law; appraising entries of the Legal Codex; updating and removing legal norms and adding new entries in the Legal Codex; submitting to the Government for decision the approval of codification results of topics of the Legal Codex and the addition of new topics to the Legal Codex; submitting to the Prime Minister for decision the addition of new entries in accordance with law; assuming the prime responsibility for the implementation, management, upgrading, and operation of the Information System for receiving and processing feedback and recommendations on normative legal documents; guiding, monitoring, and urging agencies in the receipt and processing of feedback and recommendations; detailing the review and assessment of law implementation in accordance with law; advising the Government and the Prime Minister on handling the results of monitoring the implementation of law within the decision-making competence of the Government and the Prime Minister; providing opinions on the application of normative legal documents as assigned by the Government and the Prime Minister; assisting the Government in uniformly managing the enforcement of law on handling administrative violations nationwide in accordance with law; assisting the Government in uniformly performing state management of legal support for small and medium-sized enterprises nationwide in accordance with law.
On the control of administrative procedures
The Ministry of Justice is tasked with guiding, monitoring, urging, and inspecting the implementation of administrative procedure control by ministries, sectors, and provincial-level People’s Committees; synthesizing the situation and implementation results and reporting to the Government and the Prime Minister; assuming the prime responsibility for organizing the implementation of tasks on administrative procedure reform and the one-stop shop and interlinked one-stop shop mechanisms in the settlement of administrative procedures at state administrative agencies; conducting communications on administrative procedure reform; proposing to the Government and the Prime Minister the assignment to ministries, sectors, and provincial-level People’s Committees to study and propose, or proactively studying and proposing, guidelines, policies, solutions, and initiatives on administrative procedure reform and related regulations; assessing and handling the results of reviews of administrative procedures in accordance with law; assuming the prime responsibility for, and coordinating with ministries, sectors, provincial-level People’s Committees, and relevant agencies and organizations in, the timely development, management, and operation of the National Database on Administrative Procedures; organizing the implementation of related tasks as assigned by the Government and the Prime Minister; receiving and promptly handling feedback and recommendations from organizations and individuals regarding administrative regulations within the management scope of the Government, the Prime Minister, and state administrative agencies in accordance with law; assuming the prime responsibility for guiding and urging ministries, sectors, and provincial-level People’s Committees in the settlement of administrative procedures in the electronic environment; fully and effectively performing the tasks of the standing body of the Advisory Council on Administrative Procedure Reform.
The organizational structure of the Ministry comprises 20 units
The organizational structure of the Ministry comprises 20 units. Of these, 16 units are administrative organizations assisting the Minister in performing the state management function, including: the Department of Normative Legal Document Drafting; the Department of Personnel Organization; the Department of International Cooperation; the Ministry Office; the Department for Management of Civil Judgment Enforcement; the Department of Criminal–Administrative Law and Management of Administrative Sanction Enforcement; the Department of Civil–Economic Law; the Department of International Law and Settlement of International Investment Disputes; the Department for Examination of Legal Documents and Organization of Law Enforcement; the Department of Dissemination and Education of Law and Legal Aid; the Department of Judicial Administration; the Department of Secured Transaction Registration and State Compensation; the Department of Judicial Support; the Department for Control of Administrative Procedures; the Department of Planning and Finance; and the Department of Information Technology. Four organizations are public service delivery units serving state management under the Ministry, namely: the Institute of Legal Strategy and Legal Science; the Judicial Academy; the Journal of Democracy and Law; and Vietnam Law Newspaper.
The Department of Normative Legal Document Drafting has three divisions; the Department of Personnel Organization has four divisions; and the Department of International Cooperation has three divisions.
The Minister of Justice prescribes the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of units under the Ministry and submits to the Prime Minister for promulgation the list of other public service delivery units under the Ministry.
Regarding transitional provisions, the Decree also clearly states that the tasks of directing, monitoring, providing professional guidance, and inspecting the work of bailiffs; and the management of the organization and operation of bailiffs shall continue to be performed until the Law on Civil Judgment Enforcement No. 106/2025/QH15 takes effect. The state management task in judicial assistance and acting as the focal point for the implementation of judicial assistance in civil matters shall continue to be performed until the Law on Judicial Assistance in Civil Matters No. 102/2025/QH15 takes effect.
The Department of Criminal–Administrative Law, the Department of Civil–Economic Law, the Department of International Law, and the Department for Examination of Legal Documents and Management of Administrative Sanction Enforcement shall continue to perform their tasks and powers in accordance with law until the decision of the Minister of Justice prescribing the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Department of Criminal–Administrative Law and Management of Administrative Sanction Enforcement, the Department of Civil–Economic Law, the Department of International Law and Settlement of International Investment Disputes, and the Department for Examination of Legal Documents and Organization of Law Enforcement takes effect.
The Department for Control of Administrative Procedures shall perform the tasks and powers relating to the control of administrative procedures as prescribed in this Decree from the time the decision of the Minister of Justice prescribing the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Department for Control of Administrative Procedures takes effect.
Decree No. 09/2026/ND-CP replaces Decree No. 39/2025/ND-CP and takes effect from 10 January 2026.
