In his opening remarks, the top legislator emphasised that legal development must embrace innovative thinking, become a competitive advantage, and drive national development, identifying lawmaking as a “breakthrough of breakthroughs.”

He stressed the need to review legal gaps and bottlenecks to promptly amend and complete laws, ensuring consistency, feasibility, and stability. This approach, he said, will address urgent needs while providing a long-term legal framework for sustainable development, international integration, and the application of science and technology.

During the forum, participants highlighted existing shortcomings, noting institutional frameworks are not fully aligned with practical demands and global integration; and some legal provisions lack consistency and feasibility, and limitations in law implementation.

Representatives from businesses, specialised agencies, and localities proposed establishing a comprehensive legal framework for science, technology, and digital transformation; upgrading intellectual property regulations; reducing administrative procedures; improving decentralisation and delegation, and leveraging information technology in lawmaking and enforcement.

Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung praised the forum as a space for in-depth dialogue, strengthening the legal system and legislative quality.

In the context of a rapidly changing and complex world and regional environment, he said, the country faces a historic opportunity to achieve rapid and sustainable development and to realize the aspiration of becoming a developed nation by 2045.

More than ever, legal institutions play a pivotal and decisive role, and the forum affirms the National Assembly’s role in creating an open policy dialogue space, listening to practical realities, and collaborating with the Government, the business community, experts, and scientists to formulate and guide legislation for the new development phase, he stressed.

Taking the floor, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh noted that agencies, organisations, delegates, and experts proposed five groups of tasks and solutions to continue improving the legal system in the coming period.

These tasks and solutions include innovating legislative thinking, promoting strategic breakthroughs, building a new development ecosystem, completing coherent institutions, and improving the quality of legal personnel.

He emphasised the need to control power in lawmaking, prevent vested interests, monitor and evaluate laws after enactment, and apply technology to handle public and business feedback. Policies must be measurable, risk-controlled, and facilitate processes rather than adding bureaucracy.

The Vice Chairman also highlighted the importance of improving the quality of personnel in lawmaking and enforcement and integrating digital transformation to ensure the legal system operates transparently, efficiently, and effectively.

The forum reaffirmed the National Assembly’s central role in shaping policies, listening to practical realities, and collaborating with the Government, businesses, and experts to guide lawmaking that meets the requirements of rapid and sustainable national development, especially in the context of digital transformation and the expanding digital economy.

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The draft Law on Artificial Intelligence, the first of its kind in Vietnam which is being discussed at the 15th National Assembly’s 10th session, is expected to help establish a legal foundation to promote the research, development, application, and governance of AI in a safe, responsible manner, once it is approved.