The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment received a petition from voters in Dong Nai province with the content: Voters proposed to accelerate the implementation of the 2024 Land Law with contents on mechanisms and policies suitable to reality, remove difficulties and obstacles, promote and unlock resources from land to serve socio-economic development goals. At the same time, it is necessary to fully and promptly institutionalize the viewpoints and policies of the Party and State on land policy; promptly remove bottlenecks and new problems arising from practice in resolving complaints and lawsuits related to the field of land such as compensation, clearance, support, and resettlement of citizens.
Regarding this proposal, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment reports as follows:
On January 18, 2024, at the fifth extraordinary session, the National Assembly passed the Land Law (Law No. 31/2024/QH15). This is an important event marking innovations in land policies and laws in the spirit of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW dated June 16, 2022 of the 13th Party Central Committee, in accordance with the Constitution, synchronous and unified with the legal system, removing difficulties and obstacles pointed out in the process of summarizing the implementation of the Land Law.
The Government and ministries have focused all resources to urgently develop detailed regulations and guidelines for the implementation of the Land Law to be promptly promulgated and effective simultaneously with the Law, including: 09 Decrees of the Government, 01 Decision of the Prime Minister; 06 Circulars of Ministers of Ministries: Natural Resources and Environment, Finance and Home Affairs.
In addition, to supplement land access methods and remove difficulties and obstacles for commercial housing projects, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (now the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment) has advised and submitted to the Government to submit to the National Assembly for promulgation Resolution No. 171/2024/QH15 on piloting the implementation of commercial housing projects through agreements on receiving land use rights or having land use rights and Resolution No. 170/2024/QH15 on specific mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties and obstacles for land projects in inspection and examination conclusions and judgments in Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang City and Khanh Hoa province; these two Resolutions take effect from April 1, 2025.
Over more than 1 year of implementing the 2024 Land Law and guiding documents for the Law, it shows that the new policies in the above documents have initially brought efficiency, contributing to freeing up land resources for socio-economic development of the country.
Besides the achieved results, stemming from the Party's viewpoints and orientations and the country's development requirements in the new situation regarding reorganizing the apparatus, building a 02-level local government model and promoting administrative procedure reform in the field of land, on December 11, 2025, at the 10th Session, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment advised the Government to submit to the National Assembly for approval Resolution No. 254/2025/QH15 stipulating a number of mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties and obstacles in organizing the implementation of the Land Law, effective from January 1, 2026.
At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has submitted to the Government for promulgation the following Decrees: No. 151/2025/ND-CP dated June 12, 2025, regulating the decentralization of authority of local authorities at 02 levels, decentralization and decentralization in the field of land; No. 226/2025/ND-CP dated August 15, 2025, amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decrees detailing the implementation of the Land Law; No. 49/2026/ND-CP dated January 31, 2026, detailing and guiding a number of articles of Resolution No. 254/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly stipulating a number of mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties and obstacles in organizing the implementation of the Land Law, including amending, supplementing, and perfecting regulations on compensation, support, resettlement, and determining land prices.
The amended and supplemented contents have promptly removed bottlenecks and new problems arising from practice in land recovery, compensation, support, resettlement, land prices... contributing to reducing petitions, complaints, and lawsuits related to the land sector.
