On the afternoon of January 5, the Presidential Office held a press conference to announce the President's order on the laws just passed by the 15th National Assembly, including the Construction Law.
The Construction Law consists of 8 chapters and 95 articles, effective from July 1, 2026, except for some regulations that take effect earlier from January 1, 2026.
Some main contents in the Construction Law such as amending regulations on classifying construction investment projects; preparing and appraising construction investment projects; preparing, appraising, and approving construction designs; issuing construction permits; constructing works; determining and managing costs; contract management; managing construction activity capacity...
At the press conference, Deputy Minister of Construction Le Anh Tuan said that regarding regulations on construction permit issuance, the Construction Law clearly states the principle from the preparation stage to the start of construction, the State management agency for construction only controls once for each project and construction work.
Accordingly, projects and works that have been appraised by specialized construction agencies for the Construction Feasibility Study Report are exempt from construction permits.
For the remaining projects, the Law stipulates simplifying procedures in the direction of implementing online procedures for the entire process; simplifying dossiers and conditions; minimizing the licensing time (expected to be up to 7 days).
Regarding construction works, the Law reduces the subjects subject to carry out procedures for inspecting acceptance work; concretizes the conditions for starting construction.
The Construction Law also abolishes the requirement for business capacity conditions and capacity certificates; cutting some areas that do not require professional certificates for individuals.
The Construction Law also generally stipulates the issuance of construction permits, clearly stating that before starting construction, the investor must have a construction permit, except in some cases, such as state secret works; urgent and urgent construction works;
Advertising works are not subject to a construction permit according to the provisions of the law on advertising...
Individual houses with a scale of less than 7 floors with a total floor area of less than 500m2 are also eligible for exemption from construction permits.
However, this project must not belong to one of the areas: functional area, urban development area identified in the city's general plan; construction area identified in the commune's general plan; area that has architectural management regulations...
Regarding the policy of exempting construction permits and post-inspection when applying this policy, representatives of the Ministry of Construction emphasized the principle of the Law that any construction project from the time of preparation to construction must be controlled once by the State management agency.
If the project has been appraised by a specialized construction agency for the Construction Feasibility Study Report, there is no need to issue a construction permit.
Also according to a representative of the Ministry of Construction, the remaining cases will have to be granted construction permits, but the order and administrative procedures for this will be simplified to the maximum.
