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VIETNAM ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS LAW 20/2023/QH15 [ACTIVE]
Operational Evidence for Electronic Transactions, Signatures, Certificates, and Trust Services
The Law on Electronic Transactions is the active parent framework governing transactions conducted by electronic means in Vietnam, including the legal validity of data messages, electronic signatures, electronic contracts, trust services, and electronic transactions involving state agencies.
The Law governs transactions conducted by electronic means but does not determine the substantive content, conditions, or permissible form of the underlying transaction.
Why the Vietnam Electronic Transactions Law Matters
The Electronic Transactions Law 20/2023/QH15 is the active parent framework for legally recognized electronic transactions in Vietnam. Decree 23/2025/NĐ-CP, Circular 19/2025/TT-BKHCN, and Circular 53/2025/TT-BKHCN add active trust-service, audit, and data-message certification layers. Organizations need connected records for certificate lifecycles, authority interactions, and evidence chains, not isolated signature files.
Structured ownership, evidence, and review help teams demonstrate what was assessed, who approved it, and how related frameworks were considered. ComplianceOne supports that operational work without providing legal advice or guaranteeing compliance.
What the Vietnam Electronic Transactions Law Covers
Dimension
Coverage
Scope
Organizations using electronic signatures, digital signatures, trust services, or certified data messages.
Operational themes
Signature and certificate governance; trust-service readiness; audit and certification evidence.
Evidence
Certificate lifecycle records, signature evidence, audit packages, authority-submission proof.
Status
Active parent law with three active child instruments.
The Electronic Transactions Instrument Stack
Law on Electronic Transactions 20/2023/QH15
Active Parent LawThe Law on Electronic Transactions is the active parent framework governing transactions conducted by electronic means in Vietnam, including the legal validity of data messages, electronic signatures, electronic contracts, trust services, and electronic transactions involving state agencies.
Decree 23/2025/NĐ-CP
Active Implementing DecreeImplements the framework for electronic signatures and trust services, including electronic-signature certificates, public digital-signature certification, timestamp services, data-message certification services, licensing, operational conditions, and regulatory oversight.
- Explore Decree 23 Compliance
Circular 19/2025/TT-BKHCN
Active Technical-Audit Circularprocesses supporting secure electronic signatures, digital signatures, electronic-signature certificates, digital-signature certificates, and trust services.
- Explore Circular 19 Compliance
Circular 53/2025/TT-BKHCN
Active National Technical RegulationIssues QCVN 139:2025/BKHCN, establishing technical, operational, and control requirements for data-message certification services, including evidence of sending and receipt, sending and receipt times, integrity, origin, participant identity, and long-term verification.
- Explore Circular 53 Compliance
Additional Trust Services Technical Standards – Active Technical Reference Cluster
Additional active instruments cover digital-signing and signature-validation software, NEAC interoperability, certification practices, digital-certificate formats, public digital-signature certification services, timestamp services, and recognition of foreign electronic-signature certificates.
- Circular 15/2025/TT-BKHCN: signing and signature-checking software and the public certification service gateway.
- Circular 16/2025/TT-BKHCN: model certification practice.
- Circular 17/2025/TT-BKHCN: NEAC interoperability requirements.
- Circular 28/2025/TT-BKHCN: digital-signature certificate information formats.
- Circular 50/2025/TT-BKHCN: QCVN 137 for public digital-signature certification services.
- Circular 51/2025/TT-BKHCN: QCVN 138 for timestamp services.
- Circular 06/2024/TT-BTTTT: foreign electronic-signature and certificate recognition in Vietnam.
This highlights the core ComplianceOne Electronic Transactions / Trust Services stack and the additional active technical standards cluster. Some instruments are highly technical and are treated as technical-reference layers rather than separate headline frameworks.
How ComplianceOne Supports the Vietnam Electronic Transactions Law
ComplianceOne helps teams assess applicability, assign owners, track controls, connect supporting evidence, manage review, and preserve audit history. It helps evidence, track, manage, and prepare operational work; it does not provide legal advice, certify trust services, or guarantee authority acceptance.
Related Modules
Compliance Forms
Organizes relevant records, ownership, review, and evidence for this framework.
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Audit Trail
Preserves contributor, reviewer, approval, decision, and change history across signatures, certificates, and related evidence.
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Program Governance
Assigns ownership, manages workflow, tracks progress, and coordinates reviews across connected electronic transaction obligations.
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Access & Accountability
Records user responsibilities, permissions, approvals, and evidence ownership with a complete accountability history.
Explore Access & AccountabilityCompare the Difference
Without Structured Framework Operations
With ComplianceOne
Signature evidence is scattered across systems.
Connect signatures to source records and approvals.Certificate changes lose their approval history.Track certificate lifecycle evidence and responsible owners.Trust-service audits become manual document hunts.Prepare reviewable audit and authority evidence packages.Related evidence is duplicated across multiple frameworks.Cross-link evidence while preserving each framework's legal context.Review decisions and accountability become difficult to demonstrate.Maintain complete ownership, review, and audit history from one location.Built for Electronic Transactions Compliance Operations
Status and legal scope remain visible throughout every workflow, helping teams distinguish parent laws, decrees, and circulars while preserving their individual legal roles.
Authority-issued artifacts and ComplianceOne operational templates retain clear source labels, reducing confusion between official records and internally prepared documentation.
Contributor, reviewer, approval, decision, and evidence history stay connected across signatures, certificates, trust services, and certified data messages.
See Electronic Transactions Compliance in Action
See how ComplianceOne helps structure evidence, ownership, and review for this framework.
Ronni K. Gothard Christiansen - Technical Privacy Engineer & CEO
Technical Compliance Expert, 32+ Years Open Source Advocate, X-BoD Open Source Matters Inc.
People Also Ask
No. Identity and eID are related, but this stack governs electronic transactions, signatures, trust services, and certified data messages.
Yes. The law and the three child instruments represented here are active, with their own effective dates and roles.
No. It helps manage governance records, evidence, reviews, and audit readiness around certificate and trust-service processes.
The pack includes source-verified Decree 23 forms where confirmed and keeps internal workflow templates clearly separate.
No. ComplianceOne supports controlled operational evidence; organizations retain responsibility for legal interpretation and approval.
Next Steps
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