Law on Cyber Security was adopted at the fifth meeting of the 14th National Assembly with 86.86 percent of approval votes (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Presidential Officeon June 28 announced President Tran Dai Quang’s order to promulgate seven laws,including the laws on cyber security, national defence, denunciation andcompetition.
The promulgated laws are the Law on CyberSecurity, the Law on National Defence, the Law on Denunciation, the Law onCompetition, the law amending 11 articles related to planning, the Law onSurveying and Mapping, and the law amending some articles of the Law onPhysical Training and Sports.
The Law on Cyber Security is among thoseattracting public attention recently. It consists of seven chapters with 43articles and will take effect on January 1, 2019.
One of the most outstanding contents of this lawis regulations on the protection of cyber security for the system of importantinformation about national security.
The law also stipulates measures for preventingand dealing with threatening risks and uncovering and handling related lawviolations to protect organisations and individuals’ rights and legitimateinterests at the best. It is a solid legal corridor for people to use the cyberspace for doing business or other activities.
The 2018 Law on National Defence comprises sevenchapters with 40 articles, down two chapters and 11 articles from the 2005version. It will come into force on January 1, 2019.
The law specifies the 11 basic contents of thebuilding of all-people national defence. It was also added with regulations onthe defence of military regions so that it is in conformity with thePolitburo’s Resolution 28-NQ/TW, dated September 22, 2008, on continuing tobuild provinces and centrally-run cities into firm defence areas.
Meanwhile, the provision that external work isone of the potential strengths of defence areas is to institutionalize theParty’s viewpoint on protecting the country from afar and soon.
Also becoming effective on January 1, 2019, theLaw on Denunciation has nine chapters with 67 articles, stipulating thedenunciation and settlement of denunciations of violations by public workers onduties and violations pertaining to state management in different fields.
This law was also supplemented with regulationson the withdrawal of denunciations.
Meanwhile, the Law on Competition, which willtake effect on July 1, 2019, revised stipulations on prohibited behaviours ofstate agencies. Accordingly, state agencies are banned from some actionsobstructing competition in the market.-VNA
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