Effective on January 1 this year, the 2020 Law on Environmental Protection (the Law) has new provisions on compensation for environmental damage as compared to the 2014 version. Such provisions are introduced in Section 2, Chapter X of the Law, from Articles 130 thru 135.

In Vietnam’s feudal regime, the vulnerable included women, the elderly, children, persons with disabilities, widows, widowers, the lonely, ethnic minorities, persons with nobody to rely on, prisoners and, in a broader sense, people in general as commoners in relation to the state. The feudal states paid attention to these disadvantaged groups and protected their legitimate rights and interests. The human rights then were understood in a narrow sense as legitimate needs and interests of people, which were recognized and protected to a certain extent by law.

The 2020 Law on Environmental Protection, which will come into force from the beginning of next year, has a significant change concerning environmental license. Accordingly, environmental license combines the contents of the individual environmental permit provided in the current regulations and will be used as a substitute for such permit.

The 2020 Law on Environmental Protection (the Law) regulates environmental protection activities; and rights, obligations and responsibilities of agencies, organizations, residential communities, households and individuals in these activities.

Law 67/2020/QH14 Revising a Number of Articles of the Law on Handling of Administrative Violations aims at improving mechanisms, policies, order and procedures in the legislation on handling of administrative violations and removing limitations of the current law on handling of administrative violations to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of law implementation in reality.

During the feudal time, Vietnamese family relationships were governed by not only Confucian principles but also fundamental morals, which established a code of conduct among family members and affirmed the rules for family ties. Children were expected to show their filial piety towards parents and grandparents while brothers and sisters to show self-denial and altruism to one another. The harmonious combination of the fundamental morals and Confucian principles among family members has formed the traditional family culture of Vietnamese people. Vietnamese feudal laws institutionalized the traditional morality with specific duties for family members and measures against violations. The values and limitations of Vietnamese feudal laws in this regard have been inherited and abolished in the spirit of ensuring equality, freedom and human rights for women, the elderly and children - the disadvantaged members in families and society.