Vietnam – Guidance to business
II. TASKS AND ACTIONS
1. Raising awareness and building capacity for relevant agencies, organizations, businesses and people about policies and law on RBP
a. Training to raise awareness and strengthen capacity for relevant agencies and organizations, businesses and people about policies and law on RBP; capacity building for people with the authority to sanction administrative violations and investigators; improving the legal consultancy capacity for lawyers in activities related to RBP
– Lead agency: Ministry of Justice
– Coordinating agencies: Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Public Security and other relevant ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies, People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities, Viet Nam Women Union, Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Viet Nam Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, Viet Nam Cooperative Alliance, Viet Nam Bar Federation, Viet Nam Legal Practictioner Association, Viet Nam General Confederation of Labor, Viet Nam Consumer Protection Association, and industry associations.
– Outputs: Training materials, manual guidelines, training reports, trainings for awareness raising and capacity building; improved awareness and capacity on policies and law on RBP of agencies, organizations, enterprises, civil servants and people (including capacity of people with the authority to sanction administrative violations, investigators and lawyers) (through survey results);
– Deadline: 2027.
II. TASKS AND ACTIONS
3. Improving the efficiency of law and policy implementation
e) Some other related tasks and actions
– Guiding enterprises to conduct RPB; encouraging the development of internal self-remedial and preventive regulations (including procedures and principles for dealing with complaints; and regulations and rules on internal governance, business conducts and ethics in the form of Codes of Conduct to promote RBP)
+ Lead agencies: Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Vietnam Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, industry-specific business associations (according to relevant functions and tasks)
+ Coordinating agencies: Relevant agencies and organizations
+ Outputs: Codes of Conduct, Codes of Ethics; Tools and guidelines on RBP
+ Deadline: 2026
– Legal support for businesses on RBP
+ Lead agency: Ministry of Justice
+ Coordinating agencies: Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, relevant agencies
+ Outputs: Report on the results of legal support for enterprises on RBP
+ Deadline: 2027
– Organizing dialogues with relevant government agencies, business associations and social and socio-political organizations to promote RBP
+ Lead agency: Ministry of Justice
+ Coordinating agencies: Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Labor – Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Industry and Trade and other ministries, ministerial-level agencies, relevant agencies
+ Outputs: Report on organizing dialogues on RBP; proposals and recommendations; + Deadline: 2027