The Law on Chemicals (amended) was approved by 442 delegates, demonstrating the determination to renew legislative thinking, promote green development and comprehensive digital transformation of the chemical industry.

On June 14, 2025, the Vietnam National Assembly voted to approve the Law on Chemicals(amended) with an overwhelmingly high level of consensus. Among 445 deputies who cast their votes, 442 deputies (accounting for 92.47%) voted in favour with no dissent recorded. The final approved version consists of 7 chapters and 48 articles, omitting 4 articles compared to the draft Law submitted to National Assembly earlier on May 28, 2025 of the 9th Session. The major adjustments are highlighted below:

• Assign responsibilities to ministries, branches and provincial-level People's Committes for decentralization;

• Abolish the provisions for chemical investment incentives (already stipulated under Law on Investment and Law on Science and Technology);

• Strengthen digital transformation by clearly regulating the construction of specialized chemical database and new chemical registration;

• Abolish the provisions on the repsonsibilities of organizations and individuals to report to competent authorities, only stipulate the responsibilities for updating the database to be consistent with Resolution 57-NQ/TW and reduce administrative procedures;

• Supplementing regulations on inspection measures for the import of chemicals requiring special control and chemical storage services requiring special control;

• Supplementing regulations that organizations and individuals using chemicals subject to special control must register the purpose and demand for use of chemicals on the database;

• Limit the policies for incident response to the civil sector;

• Introduce regulations to enhance chemical traceability through e-invoices, product trace control;

• Stipulate the application of green chemistry principles.

According to the Industry and Trade Newspaper,  the new law will remove "bottlenecks" in the development of the chemical industry, creating a favorable space for the chemical industry to develop and contribute positively to socio-economic growth. The draft law is proposed to be effective from January 1, 2026. In the case of the regulation on the certificate of eligibility for chemical storage services, the authority is postponing the effective date to July 1, 2026 to ensure  the necessary conditions for the implementation of this regulation.

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[1] The National Assembly voted to approve the Law on Chemicals (amended) with 92.47% in favor