2024

On January 18, 2024, the National Assembly promulgated Law on Land No. 31/2024/QH15 (Land Law 2024) replacing the Law on Land No. 45/2013/QH13 dated November 29, 2013 and taking effect from January 1, 2025. The Land Law 2024 has many outstanding amendments and supplements that address the limitations of the previous law. This article will not analyze the new regulations of the Land Law 2024 that have been introduced and evaluated by many other agencies and organizations such as land price determination, land allocation, land lease but will focus on some important contents of this Law related to the operation of enterprises, especially real estate and energy businesses. Some of these contents are researched and contributed by lawyers of NHQuang&Associates during the development of the Land Law 2024.

Some typical new regulations of the Land Law 2024 are presented by Mr. Nguyen Hung Quang – Managing Partner of NHQuang&Associates and Tran Thi Thuy Mai.

On November 30, 2023, the Ministry of Science and Technology promulgated Circular 23/2023/TT-BKHCN guiding the Law on Intellectual Property (IP Law) and Decree 65/2023/ND-CP guiding the IP Law on industrial property, protection of industrial property rights, and rights to plant varieties and State management of intellectual property related to the procedures for establishing industrial property rights and ensuring industrial property information (Circular 23). Circular 23 contains several notable contents for enterprises in the process of implementing procedures to establish rights to industrial property subject matters.

Typical contents of the new Circular guiding the Law on Intellectual Property and Decree on industrial property are presented by Luu Tue Dang.