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Vietnam: National Assembly adopted Law on Digital Transformation without competition authority governance provisions

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National Assembly adopted Law on Digital Transformation without competition authority governance provisions

On 11 December 2025, the National Assembly of Vietnam adopted the Law on Digital Transformation. The adopted Law does not include provisions from earlier drafts that assigned the national competition authority responsibility for monitoring, evaluati…

Scope

Policy Area
Competition
Policy Instrument
Competition authority governance
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content, platform intermediary: e-commerce, ML and AI development, infrastructure provider: cloud computing, storage and databases
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
parliament

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2025-08-12
in consultation

On 12 August 2025, the Ministry of Science and Technology opened a public consultation until 15 Aug…

2025-08-15
processing consultation

On 15 August 2025, the Ministry of Science and Technology closed the public consultation, which had…

2025-10-31
under deliberation

On 31 October 2025, the Law on Digital Transformation was introduced to the National Assembly of Vi…

2025-12-11
rejected

On 11 December 2025, the National Assembly of Vietnam adopted the Law on Digital Transformation. Th…