The Department of Civil and Economic Laws

Pursuant to Decision No. 242/QD-BTP dated 2 February 2015 of the Minister of Justice prescribing the functions, duties, powers and organizational structure of the Department of Civil and Economic Laws, the Department has functions, duties, powers and organizational structure as follows:

I. Role and functions

The Department of Civil and Economic Laws is a unit under the Ministry of Justice (hereafter called "the Department") which performs the advisory function to the Minister in state management over the development and appraisal of projects, drafts of legal normative documents on civil and economic matters; legal support for enterprises and the Club of enterprise legislation in accordance with provisions of laws.

II. Tasks and powers

The Department has the following tasks and powers:

1. Formulating and submitting long-term, five-year and annual work plans of the Department to the Minister; taking part in formulating strategies, master plans and plans of the Justice sector for long-term, five-year and yearly periods;

2. Conducting research and proposing major strategic issues, and projects and solutions for developing and improving laws on the fields of civil and economic laws, ensuring the unification of legal normative documents in the fields of civil and economics in accordance with the Constitution and the Civil Code.

3. Taking prime responsibility for and coordinating with other units of the Ministry in developing, making comments, appraising draft projects and legal normative documents on the fields of civil and economic laws and others as assigned by the Minister.

4. Implementing approved strategies, programs, plans and projects of legal normative documents under the scope of management of the Department.

5. Reviewing, systemizing, consolidating legal normative documents and codifying legal normative documents under the scope of management of the Department.

6. Monitoring law implementation, proposing policies and solutions to overcome systematic and inter-ministerial entanglements relating to law implementation under the scope of management of the Department.

7. Taking prime responsibility for and coordinating with other units of the Ministry in assisting the Minister to making comments on law implementation and other issues relating to the fields of civil and economic laws.

8. Performing the operation of administrative procedure management and administrative reforms under tasks and duties assigned by the Minister.

9. Guiding professional skills for persons performing legal assistance for enterprises, and conducting legal assistance for enterprises according to provisions of laws.

10. Guiding, monitoring and supervising the organization and operation of the Club of enterprise legislation.

11. Taking part in conducting research, training and fostering activities, and legal education and dissemination under the scope of management of the Department according to provisions of laws and as delegated by the Ministry; applying results of legal science research to legal reforms, administrative reforms and judicial reforms in the fields under the scope of management of the Department.

12. Conducting interim and final reviews and report on a periodical or ad-hoc basis on the areas and tasks falling within under the scope of management of the Department according to provisions of laws.

13. Examining and involving in inspection of the implementation of provisions under the scope of management of the Department; performing combat and prevention of corruption, negative issues and violations in the fields under the scope of management of the Department; taking part in settlement of complaints and denunciations according to provisions of laws and as delegated by the Ministry.

14. Performing applying information technology to the fields under the scope of management of the Department.

15. Implementing the activity of competition - reward and managing officials and assets according to provisions of laws and as delegated by the Ministry.

16. Fulfilling other duties as assigned by the Minister.