1 MINISTRY OF FINANCE ------- SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness --------------- No: 69/2023/TT-BTC Hanoi, 15 November 2023 CIRCULAR ON AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING A NUMBER OF ARTICLES OF CIRCULAR NO. 57/2021/TT-BTC DATED 12 JULY 2021 OF THE MINISTER OF FINANCE STIPULATING THE ROADMAP FOR REARRANGING THE STOCK TRADING MARKET, BOND TRADING MARKET, D

• 15 November 2023

1 DECREE DETAILING A NUMBER OF ARTICLES AND MEASURES TO IMPLEMENT THE LAW ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS TO PLANT VARIETIES Chapter I .................................................................................................................................................. 3 GENERAL PROVISIONS ..............................................................................................

• 15 November 2023

In this newsletter, Grant Thornton Vietnam would like to update readers on the relevant legal policies and guidelines in the field of Social Insurance and Labor, Invoices, Land rental fee, Taxes, and Cyber Security recently issued.

• 10 November 2023

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• 08 November 2023

Decree 13/2023 on Personal Data Protection (PDPD) has resulted in questions among legal professionals in Vietnam as well as the cold hard realities of the difficulties in fulfilling even the basic administrative procedures under PDPD. This update discusses these difficulties.

• 06 November 2023

This update discusses the issues on whether the legal representative can re-authorise his/her signing authority to another person to sign an agreement approved by the Board if he/she is authorised by the Board to sign this agreement.

• 06 November 2023

In practice, annually, the State Bank of Vietnam allocates annual credit growth limits to each credit institution including the finance company. In September 2022, it was reported that the SBV should use its ranking system to decide to allocate credit growth limits to each credit institution.

• 06 November 2023

In this update: Circular No. 16/2023/TT-BYT on marketing authorization registration of drugs, Decree No. 65/2023/ND-CP of the Government on measures to enforce Law on Intellectual Property regarding industrial property, and Official Letter No. 4040/TCHQ-GSQL on the conditions for inspection and supervision of the export processing enterprise.

• 06 November 2023

The legal landscape on cross-border lending has recently undergone significant changes. We also address recurrent challenges encountered by foreign lenders and domestic borrowers in their transactions.

• 04 November 2023

While Vietnam's Data Centre and Cloud Computing Services are experiencing strong growth, the lack of a solid legal framework in this area has caused difficulties for investors in their market entry and operations. The government's legislative efforts will be discussed in this article.

• 04 November 2023