Vietnam: National Assembly adopted Law on Digital Transformation without conformity certification provisions

On 11 December 2025, the National Assembly of Vietnam adopted the Law on Digital Transformation, which does not retain provisions from earlier drafts that required organisations and individuals to obtain conformity certification, declare conformity, or apply conformity marks before introducing products, goods, processes, or services serving digital transformation or connecting to information systems of state agencies. The adopted Law on Digital Transformation contains no Article 63 and no equivalent provision establishing mandatory conformity certification or conformity marking obligations. Standards, technical regulations, and conformity assessment are addressed only in Article 14, which sets principles for standardisation and technical regulation in accordance with the Law on Standards and Technical Regulations and the Law on Product and Goods Quality under Article 14(1) and Article 14(2). Article 14(3) assigns ministries, including the Ministry of Science and Technology within their assigned areas of state management, responsibility for developing and promulgating national standards and national technical regulations. Article 14(4) requires agencies, organisations, and individuals implementing digital transformation to select and apply appropriate standards and comply with national technical regulations, without establishing mandatory certification, declaration of conformity, or conformity marking requirements.