Legal Newsletter | February 2026

Dear Valued Customers,

Global Vietnam Lawyers would like to share with you Legal Newsletter Issue No. 02 of February 2026.

This newsletter will catch you up on the domestic carbon exchange, on product labeling, and providing detailed guidance for some mechanisms and policies to resolve difficulties in implementing the Land Law that enterprises should keep updated on for legal compliance purposes.
Mandatory use of electronic signatures in investment registration dossiers is an inevitable trend that helps digitize procedures, shorten processing time, reduce costs, and increase transparency; however, in practice, enterprises also face numerous challenges. In the article “Electronic signatures in investment registration dossiers: Inevitability and practical challenges” Lawyer Trần Minh Quyết of GV Lawyers analyzes these issues and offers recommendations to avoid legal risks.
In the section “Legal Guidance“, we will keep you updated about the questions related to: (i) Application of cashless payment vouchers when paying wages and salaries to employees; (ii) Customs procedures for import and export of goods between export processing enterprises and its dependent branches; (iii) Withholding personal income tax when terminating a labor contract; and (iv) Time for determining taxable personal income.
VCCI recommends completing the legal framework for copyright protection in the digital environment, and the Ministry of Industry and Trade urges businesses to flexibly adjust import‑export plans amid escalating hostilities in the Middle East. Those are noteworthy points in the section “Good readings for you”.
The last part of the Legal Newsletter is, as usual, the list of selected latest legal documents.