Circular No. 15/2025/TT-BTP guiding the implementation of Decision No. 27/2025/QĐ-TTg dated August 4, 2025 of the Prime Minister on standards for communes, wards, and special administrative-economic zones to achieve legal access criteria.

CIRCULAR

||| Guidelines for implementing Decision No. 27/2025/QĐ-TTg dated August 4, 2025 of the Prime Minister on communes, wards, special administrative-economic zones meeting standards for access to law ||| Meeting standards for access to law

Pursuant to Decree No. 39/2025/NĐ-CP dated February 26, 2025 of the Government on the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Justice;

||| Pursuant to Decision No. 27/2025/QĐ-TTg dated August 4, 2025 of the Prime Minister on communes, wards, special administrative-economic zones meeting standards for access to law;

||| At the proposal of the Director of the Department of Legal Education and Popularization and Legal Aid;

||| The Minister of Justice issues this Circular guiding the implementation of Decision No. 27/2025/QĐ-TTg dated August 4, 2025 of the Prime Minister on communes, wards, special administrative-economic zones meeting standards for access to law.

Article 1. Scope of Regulation and Applicability

Thông tư này quy định chi tiết khoản 4 Điều 38 Luật Thủy sản số 18/2017/QH14 đã được sửa đổi, bổ sung tại điểm c khoản 21 Điều 14 Luật số 146/2025/QH15.

||| a) This Circular stipulates the contents and levels of compliance with the criteria and indicators for access to law as prescribed in Decision No. 27/2025/QĐ-TTg dated August 4, 2025 of the Prime Minister on communes, wards, special administrative-economic zones (hereinafter referred to collectively as commune level) meeting standards for access to law; model files and other documents serving the evaluation and recognition of the commune level meeting standards for access to law.

||| b) Responsibilities of agencies, organizations, and individuals related to the evaluation and recognition of the commune level meeting standards for access to law.

Thông tư này áp dụng đối với tổ chức, cá nhân có liên quan đến hoạt động kinh doanh đối tượng thủy sản nuôi chủ lực trên lãnh thổ Việt Nam.

||| This Circular applies to the commune level and agencies, organizations, and individuals related to the evaluation and recognition of the commune level meeting standards for access to law.

||| Article 2. Contents and levels of compliance with the criteria and indicators for access to law

||| 1. The contents and levels of compliance with the criteria and indicators for access to law are specified in Appendix I attached hereto.

||| 2. The levels of compliance with the criteria and indicators for access to law are determined based on the results of the review conducted by the Department of Justice, serving as the basis for considering and deciding on the recognition of the commune level meeting standards for access to law.

||| Article 3. Model files and other documents serving the evaluation and recognition of the commune level meeting standards for access to law

||| 1. Request for recognition of the commune level meeting standards for access to law (Model 01, Appendix II).

||| 2. Self-assessment report on the levels of compliance with the criteria and indicators for access to law (Model 02, Appendix II).

||| 3. Summary and response to comments from agencies, organizations, and individuals regarding the self-assessment report on the levels of compliance with the criteria and indicators for access to law (Model 03, Appendix II).

||| 4. Minutes of the meeting proposing the recognition of the commune level meeting standards for access to law (Model 04, Appendix II).

||| 5. Report on the review of the file and the levels of compliance with the standards for access to law (Model 05, Appendix II).

||| 6. Decision recognizing the commune level meeting standards for access to law (Model 06, Appendix II).

||| Article 4. Responsibilities of agencies and organizations

||| 1. The Department of Legal Education and Popularization and Legal Aid shall take the lead in advising the Minister of Justice to direct, guide, monitor, urge, and inspect the implementation of this Circular.

||| 2. Provincial People's Committees (hereinafter referred to collectively as provincial level) shall direct the Department of Justice, relevant departments, agencies, and organizations within their province, and the People's Committee at the commune level to organize the implementation of this Circular within their jurisdiction; compile and report the results of the tasks of evaluating and recognizing the commune level meeting standards for access to law in their locality to the Ministry of Justice in the annual report on the results of judicial work as prescribed.

||| 3. The People's Committee at the commune level shall implement this Circular in their locality; report the results of the tasks of evaluating and recognizing the commune level meeting standards for access to law to the Provincial People's Committee in the annual report on the results of judicial work as prescribed.

||| 4. The Department of Justice, the Office of the People's Council and People's Committee at the commune level shall be the focal point for advising the People's Committee and Chairman of the People's Committee at the same level to direct, guide, implement, monitor, urge, and inspect the implementation of this Circular in their locality.

||| 5. When there are suggestions, reflections, complaints, or denunciations related to the evaluation and recognition of the commune level meeting standards for access to law in their locality, the Department of Justice, the Office of the People's Council, and the People's Committee at the commune level shall promptly report and advise the Chairman of the People's Committee at the same level to inspect, direct, and coordinate with relevant agencies and units to handle them promptly in accordance with the law.

||| Article 5. Effective date

1. This Circular takes effect from January 1, 2026.

||| 2. Circular No. 09/2021/TT-BTP dated November 15, 2021 of the Minister of Justice guiding the implementation of Decision No. 25/2021/QĐ-TTg dated July 22, 2021 of the Prime Minister on communes, wards, towns meeting standards for access to law shall cease to be effective from the date this Circular takes effect.

||| Article 6. Implementation

||| 1. Chairmen of Provincial People's Committees, Heads of units under the Ministry of Justice, Directors of Departments of Justice in provinces and cities, Chairmen of Commune People's Committees, and related agencies, organizations, and individuals are responsible for implementing the provisions of this Circular.

||| 2. During the implementation process, if the legal normative documents cited and applied in this Circular are amended, supplemented, or replaced by new legal normative documents, they shall be implemented according to the new documents; if any issues arise or difficulties occur, they should be reported promptly to the Ministry of Justice for guidance and resolution./.