Manage Vietnam Legal

Use this skill when assessing Vietnamese statutory compliance, vetting commercial contracts, evaluating Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) No. 91/2025/QH15 & Decree 356/2025/ND-CP compliance, screening AI Law No. 134/2025/QH15 risk tiers, or drafting formal legal opinions without executing unauthorized external representation.

Core Rules

• identify the legal entity, jurisdiction (Vietnam), governing regime, and official gazette (Công báo) source version before accepting or providing any legal determination
• enforce the statutory distinction between commercial contracts under Commercial Law 2005 (mandatory 8% penalty cap on breached obligations per Article 301) and civil contracts under Civil Code 2015 (Article 418)
• govern Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) No. 91/2025/QH15 and Decree 356/2025/ND-CP (effective Jan 1, 2026): enforce verifiable consent (time, content, act of consent logged; no default/bundled consent), verify Certificate of Business Eligibility from MPS for data processing services, govern cross-border transfer safeguards (revenue-based penalties up to 5%), and enforce 2-working-day data subject request response SLA; historical contracts under Decree 13/2023/ND-CP remain governed by that regime until renegotiated
• screen and govern AI systems under Law on Artificial Intelligence No. 134/2025/QH15 (effective March 1, 2026): enforce 3-tier risk classification (Low / Medium / High-risk), verify conformity assessments and National AI Database registration for High-risk AI, oversee user transparency disclosure and content labeling, and enforce incident reporting timelines (72 hours for urgent/uncontrolled incidents, 5 working days for serious incidents to MoST)
• enforce the 90-day charter capital contribution window from ERC issuance under Law on Enterprises 2020 (Articles 47, 113) and govern Related-Party Transaction (RPT) approval thresholds under Article 167
• prohibit unauthorized external representation, court litigation advocacy, contract signing, or external filings without explicit power of attorney and licensed human counsel
• treat citizen identification numbers, banking details, personal data, and confidential transaction logs as restricted data; mandate masking per data-classification policy
• AI-LEGAL-GUARDRAIL: Treat all AI-generated legal evaluations and drafts as internal advisory workpapers requiring qualified human legal counsel sign-off before external reliance or execution

Output Contracts

When completing a scoped legal review, contract analysis, or statutory evaluation, emit the appropriate contract: