The guiding documents for the Land Law are few but must be scientifically sound.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested that ministries develop guiding documents for the implementation of the 2024 Land Law, emphasizing that while the number of documents should be small, they must be scientific and rigorous.

Presiding over a meeting with leaders of several ministries and agencies on the plan to implement the amended Land Law on January 22, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha said that the law, once passed, will contribute to resolving many current obstacles in land management, while also fostering development with groundbreaking thinking and perspectives.

The next task for the Government is to effectively implement mechanisms and policies to bring the law into practice. Ministries and agencies should promptly submit to the Prime Minister guiding documents for implementation, with the aim of minimizing the number of decrees while ensuring their application is scientific and rigorous.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chaired a meeting on January 22nd to discuss the drafting of guidelines for the 2024 Land Law. Photo: Dinh Hai — Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chaired a meeting on January 22nd to discuss the drafting of guidelines for the 2024 Land Law. Photo: *Dinh Hai*

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will soon draft a decree detailing several provisions of the law; regulations on land reclamation; compensation, support, and resettlement; basic land survey and database; and administrative penalties in the land sector. The Ministry will build a database of information to serve land valuation by 2025.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has updated policies detailing the implementation of several articles of the Forestry Law; and a decree guiding the use of rice land. The Ministry of Finance is developing decrees on land collection and taxes.

In addition, ministries and agencies are focusing on issuing guiding circulars under the decree. The guiding documents for the Land Law must be completed before the provisions of the law come into effect.

The Deputy Prime Minister instructed the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Planning and Investment to develop two pilot projects to separate land acquisition, site clearance, and resettlement from public investment projects; and to implement commercial housing projects through agreements with non-residential land in some localities with specific capabilities or conditions.

On January 18th, the National Assembly passed the amended Land Law, comprising 16 chapters and 260 articles, effective from January 1st, 2025. The law stipulates 31 cases where the State can reclaim land when it is "absolutely necessary" to implement socio-economic development projects for the national and public interest. Compensation for land reclamation by the State varies, including monetary compensation, land of the same intended use, housing, and land of a different intended use if the reclaimed land owner so desires and the locality has available land.

The Provincial People's Committee shall develop and submit to the Provincial People's Council for approval the initial land price list, to be published and applied from January 1, 2026. Annually, the Provincial People's Committee must submit to the Provincial People's Council for approval adjustments, amendments, and additions to the land price list, to be published and applied from January 1 of the following year.

Land without title deeds before July 1, 2014 (instead of July 1, 2004 as currently stipulated) that is not subject to disputes will be granted land use certificates. Businesses that lease land from the State with a one-time payment can switch to annual payments to reduce financial pressure, thereby potentially lowering housing prices.

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