VIETNAM Law and Practice Contributed by: Ngoc Luong Trinh, Tung Nguyen, Hanh Vo, Esko Cate, Nguyen Dang, Khanh Le, Hoang Nguyen and Truc Ta, VILAF
ment report and other submissions required under the personal data regime), the MPS has designated its Department of Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention (A05) as the competent authority responsi - ble for such matters. Accordingly, the MPS/A05 is the primary regulator to consider when assessing official filings, regulatory expectations and enforcement risk in this area. • The Ministry of National Defence is responsible for data and personal data protection within the mili - tary and national defence sectors under both the Law on Data and the Law on PDP. • The Law on Data and the Law on PDP also allocate responsibilities to ministries, ministerial-level agen - cies and other Government bodies. Notably, under the Law on PDP, the Ministry of Sci - ence and Technology plays a key coordinating role with the MPS in developing technical standards and regulations on personal data protection, including those relating to data anonymisation and de-identifi - cation. At the same time, the relevant ministries, min - isterial-level agencies and other relevant state bodies may be assigned co-ordination and implementation responsibilities within their respective functions.
Further, People’s Committees at the provincial and municipal levels are also responsible for implement - ing, administering and promoting compliance with data/personal data protection regulations. That said, the system is not one in which businesses typically deal with a single independent privacy com - missioner, as in some other jurisdictions. Instead, the Vietnamese regime is more state management-orient - ed, with the MPS and particularly A05 for personal data procedures, occupying a central position. Busi - nesses should therefore regard the MPS as the lead authority for personal data protection matters, while also remaining alert to parallel requirements that may arise under sectoral regulation or the broader Law on Data framework. 9. Looking Forward 9.1 Upcoming Legal Reforms There are no noteworthy upcoming legal reforms.
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