The draft revised Land Law is expected to be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration at the second session (October 2026).
This draft law is also being finalized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment.
Compared to the 2024 Land Law, the draft does not specify in detail in the draft law the order and procedures for land recovery for national defense, security, socio-economic development for national and public interests; coercive enforcement of land inventory decisions, coercive enforcement of land recovery; land recovery notice and compliance with land recovery notice decisions; responsibilities of agencies and units in organizing compensation, support, resettlement, management, exploitation, and use of recovered land funds.
Regarding land recovery due to violations, land recovery due to termination of land use, the draft law inherits cases of land recovery due to violations of land law, land recovery due to termination of land use, voluntary return of land, with the risk of threatening human life, and inability to continue use in the 2024 Land Law.
At the same time, supplement cases of land recovery according to judgments and decisions of the People's Court.
The spirit institution of Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW on "Policy Design to make hoarding land without use more costly than speculative profits", the draft has completed the content of land recovery due to violations for cases where land is used for investment projects without use or slow land use in the direction that the State collects a progressive annual amount of money gradually increasing according to the time of non-use of land or slow land use; in case it is more than 60 months and the investor still does not put the land into use, the State recovers the land.
At the same time, the draft Law has separated cases of violations of land law but being considered and granted Certificates from cases where the State recovers land due to violations of land law.
