| THE GOVERNMENT — |
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence – Freedom – Happiness ——- |
| No.: 66.17/2026/NQ-CP | Hanoi, May 15, 2026 |
RESOLUTION
On cutting and amending conditional business investment lines
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government No. 63/2025/QH15; Pursuant to the Law on Investment No. 143/2025/QH15; Pursuant to the Law on Promulgation of Legislative Documents No. 64/2025/QH15, as amended and supplemented by Law No. 87/2025/QH15; Pursuant to Resolution No. 206/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly on special mechanisms for handling difficulties and obstacles caused by legal provisions; At the proposal of the Minister of Finance;
The Government hereby promulgates the Resolution on cutting and amending conditional business investment lines.
Article 1. Scope of regulation and subjects of application
1. This Resolution prescribes the reduction and amendment of conditional business investment lines specified in Appendix IV of the Law on Investment No. 143/2025/QH15 (hereinafter referred to as the Law on Investment).
2. This Resolution applies to investors and agencies, organizations, and individuals related to business investment activities.
Article 2. Principles for cutting and amending conditional business investment lines
1. Cut business lines that are not truly necessary for reasons of national defense, national security, social order and safety, social ethics, or community health as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 7 of the Law on Investment.
2. Cut business lines where business investment conditions can be managed through standards, technical regulations, or professional standards under a post-inspection management method.
3. Cut or amend business lines where business investment conditions are unclear or similar in nature, have been controlled through other management activities, or business lines for which business investment conditions have not been issued since their regulation, or for which business investment conditions are no longer prescribed.
Article 3. List of conditional business investment lines
1. Promulgate the List of conditional business investment lines attached to the Appendix of this Resolution.
2. Ministers and Heads of ministerial-level agencies are responsible for researching and prescribing replacement management solutions and plans for conditional business investment lines that are abolished or amended in this Resolution, ensuring the validity and efficiency of state management.
Article 4. Organization of implementation
1. The Ministry of Finance is responsible for reviewing and proposing amendments and supplements to Appendix IV of the Law on Investment to ensure consistency and synchronization.
2. Ministers and Heads of ministerial-level agencies shall promulgate standards, technical regulations, or professional standards for business lines cut in this Resolution (if necessary), thereby developing processes and procedures for post-inspection management before July 1, 2026. The Ministry of Science and Technology is responsible for coordinating with ministries and branches to promulgate technical regulations, ensuring they take effect at the same time as this Resolution. The formulation of legislative documents prescribing standards, technical regulations, or professional standards in this case shall be carried out according to simplified order and procedures.
3. Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, and Chairpersons of People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities are responsible for implementing this Resolution, ensuring openness, transparency, efficiency, and feasibility; preventing loopholes, corruption, negativity, loss, and waste.
4. Heads of agencies and units, officials, civil servants, public employees, and individuals participating in the formulation and promulgation of this Resolution shall be considered for exclusion, exemption, or reduction of liability as prescribed in Clause 7, Article 6 of Resolution No. 206/2025/QH15.
Article 5. Transitional provision
For conditional business investment lines prescribed in the Law on Investment that have been cut according to the provisions of this Resolution, organizations and individuals may continue to use licenses, certificates, credentials, confirmation documents, or other forms of business investment permission issued by competent state agencies until the expiry of such documents.
Article 6. Implementation effect
1. This Resolution takes effect from July 1, 2026, until the end of February 28, 2027, except for cases specified in Clause 2 of this Article.
2. In case laws, resolutions of the National Assembly, ordinances, resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee, or resolutions of the Government contain provisions on conditional business investment lines related to the provisions in this Resolution and are passed or issued with an effective date between the date this Resolution is signed and the end of February 28, 2027, the corresponding provisions in this Resolution shall expire from the time those legislative documents take effect.
3. During the period this Resolution is in effect, if provisions on conditional business investment lines in this Resolution differ from those in related legislative documents, the provisions of this Resolution shall apply, except for cases specified in Clause 2 of this Article.
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Recipients: – Secretariat of the Party Central Committee; – National Assembly (for reporting); – National Assembly Standing Committee (for reporting); – Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers; – Ministries, ministerial-level agencies; – People’s Councils, People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities; – Central Office and Party Commissions; – Office of the General Secretary; – Office of the President; – Ethnic Council and Committees of the National Assembly; – Office of the National Assembly; – Supreme People’s Court; – Supreme People’s Procuracy; – State Audit Office; – Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front; – Central agencies of socio-political organizations; – Office of the Government: Minister-Chairman, Vice Chairmen, Assistants to the PM, DG of E-Portal, Departments, Bureaus, subordinate units, Official Gazette; – Archive: Office, Digital Transformation (2b). 70 |
ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE PRIME MINISTER DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER Pham Thi Thanh Tra |
Appendix
LIST OF CONDITIONAL BUSINESS INVESTMENT LINES
(Attached to Resolution No. 66.17/2026/NQ-CP dated May 15, 2026, of the Government)
| No. | Business line |
| 1 | Seal production |
| 2 | Trading in combat gears (including repair) |
| 3 | Trading in various types of fireworks, excluding firecrackers |
| 4 | Trading in camouflaged equipment and software used for audio recording, video recording, positioning, and equipment used for jamming or breaking mobile information waves |
| 5 | Trading in military equipment and supplies for the armed forces, military weapons, technical equipment, gas-fired weapons, specialized military/police vehicles; components, parts, spare parts, materials and specialized equipment, and specialized technologies for their manufacture |
| 6 | Pawn services |
| 7 | Massage services |
| 8 | Security services |
| 9 | Legal practice |
| 10 | Notary practice |
| 11 | Judicial expertise practice |
| 12 | Auditing services |
| 13 | Bonded warehouse services, container freight station services |
| 14 | Operation of places for customs procedures, gathering, inspection, and supervision of customs |
| 15 | Securities business |
| 16 | Securities registration, custody, clearing, and payment services; support services for transactions on domestic carbon exchange |
| 17 | Insurance business (excluding insurance auxiliary services) |
| 18 | Price appraisal services |
| 19 | Lottery business |
| 20 | Prize-winning games (including prize-winning electronic games for foreigners, casinos, and betting) |
| 21 | Credit rating services |
| 22 | Voluntary pension fund management services |
| 23 | Petrol and oil business |
| 24 | Industrial explosives business (including disposal activities) |
| 25 | Explosive precursors business |
| 26 | Business lines using industrial explosives and explosive precursors |
| 27 | Blasting services |
| 28 | Production and trading of chemicals, except for those on the list of prohibited chemicals and minerals prescribed in Appendix II of the Law on Investment No. 143/2025/QH15; chemical storage services; specialized chemical consultancy |
| 29 | Trading in tobacco products, tobacco materials, and specialized tobacco machinery and equipment, excluding electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products |
| 30 | Trading in food under the specialized management of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Ministry of Health |
| 31 | Operation of Commodity Exchanges |
| 32 | Power generation, transmission, distribution, wholesale, and retail activities |
| 33 | Rice export |
| 34 | Trading in industrial precursors |
| 35 | Trading of goods and activities directly related to the trading of goods by foreign service providers in Vietnam |
| 36 | Multi-level marketing business |
| 37 | E-commerce activities: management and operation of intermediary e-commerce platforms, e-commerce social networks, integrated e-commerce platforms; certification of e-contracts in commerce |
| 38 | Oil and gas activities |
| 39 | Vocational education activities |
| 40 | Vocational skill assessment services |
| 41 | Occupational safety technical inspection services |
| 42 | Services of sending workers to work abroad |
| 43 | Voluntary drug detoxification services |
| 44 | Road transport business |
| 45 | Manufacture, assembly, and import of automobiles |
| 46 | Motor vehicle inspection services |
| 47 | Automobile driver training services |
| 48 | Driving test services |
| 49 | Traffic safety inspection services |
| 50 | Training services for crew members and operators of inland waterway vessels |
| 51 | Maritime crew training and coaching; maritime crew recruitment and supply services |
| 52 | Air transport business |
| 53 | Design, manufacture, maintenance, and testing services for aircraft, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers, and aircraft equipment in Vietnam |
| 54 | Import, temporary import for re-export, and temporary export for re-import of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), other flying vehicles, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers, and equipment for UAVs and other flying vehicles |
| 55 | Research, manufacture, testing, repair, and maintenance of UAVs, other flying vehicles, aircraft engines, aircraft propellers, and equipment for UAVs and other flying vehicles |
| 56 | Airport business |
| 57 | Aviation services at airports |
| 58 | Aviation staff professional training and coaching services |
| 59 | Rail transport business |
| 60 | Railway infrastructure business |
| 61 | Dangerous goods transport business |
| 62 | Real estate business |
| 63 | Construction investment project management and site management practice |
| 64 | Construction survey practice |
| 65 | Construction design and design verification practice |
| 66 | Construction supervision consultancy practice |
| 67 | Specialized construction laboratory services |
| 68 | Urban and rural planning consultancy practice |
| 69 | Postal services |
| 70 | Telecommunications services |
| 71 | Trust services |
| 72 | Publishing activities |
| 73 | Printing services, excluding the printing of packaging that does not contain product labels |
| 74 | Social network services |
| 75 | Online gaming services on telecommunications and Internet networks |
| 76 | Pay radio and television services |
| 77 | Establishment of general electronic information websites (portals) |
| 78 | Processing and repair services for used information technology products on the list of prohibited imports for foreign traders for consumption abroad |
| 79 | Electronic authentication services |
| 80 | Cybersecurity products and services (excluding civil cryptography products and services) |
| 81 | Distribution of imported newspapers and magazines |
| 82 | Civil cryptography products and services |
| 83 | Preschool education activities |
| 84 | General education activities |
| 85 | Higher education activities |
| 86 | Activities of foreign educational institutions and branches of foreign educational institutions |
| 87 | Continuing education activities |
| 88 | Fisheries activities |
| 89 | Fisheries business |
| 90 | Production of aquatic feeds and environmental treatment products for aquaculture; production of animal feeds and animal waste treatment products |
| 91 | Fishing vessel registration |
| 92 | Pesticide business |
| 93 | Treatment services for objects subject to plant quarantine |
| 94 | Pesticide testing services |
| 95 | Trading of veterinary drugs, vaccines, biological products, microorganisms, and chemicals used in veterinary medicine |
| 96 | Animal testing and surgery services |
| 97 | Animal vaccination, diagnosis, prescription, treatment, and healthcare services |
| 98 | Veterinary drug testing and assay services (including veterinary drugs, aquatic veterinary drugs, vaccines, biological products, microorganisms, chemicals used in veterinary medicine and aquatic veterinary medicine) |
| 99 | Farm animal husbandry business |
| 100 | Slaughtering of livestock and poultry |
| 101 | Fertilizer production |
| 102 | Fertilizer testing services |
| 103 | Trading of animal breeds and production of plant varieties |
| 104 | Production and nursing of aquatic breeds |
| 105 | Trading of genetically modified products |
| 106 | Medical examination and treatment services |
| 107 | Pharmacy business |
| 108 | Cosmetic production |
| 109 | Medical device business |
| 110 | Radiation work services |
| 111 | Atomic energy application support services |
| 112 | Conformity assessment services |
| 113 | Technology assessment, appraisal, and expertise services |
| 114 | Intellectual property representation services (including copyright and related rights representation, industrial property representation, and plant variety rights representation) |
| 115 | Film distribution and dissemination services |
| 116 | Relic and antiquity assessment services |
| 117 | Consultancy services for planning, projects, design, construction organization, and construction supervision for preservation, renovation, and restoration of monuments |
| 118 | Karaoke and dance hall services |
| 119 | Travel services |
| 120 | Sports activities of sports enterprises and professional sports clubs |
| 121 | Accommodation services |
| 122 | Trading in relics and antiquities, excluding the export of relics and antiquities; preservation, restoration, digitization, and database construction services for relics and antiquities |
| 123 | Import of cultural goods under the specialized management of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism |
| 124 | Surveying and mapping services |
| 125 | Hydro-meteorological forecasting and warning services |
| 126 | Groundwater drilling and exploration services |
| 127 | Water resources exploitation services |
| 128 | Mineral exploration services |
| 129 | Mineral exploitation |
| 130 | Hazardous waste transport and treatment services |
| 131 | Import of scrap |
| 132 | Environmental monitoring services |
| 133 | Business activities of commercial banks |
| 134 | Business activities of non-bank credit institutions |
| 135 | Business activities of cooperative banks, people’s credit funds, and microfinance institutions |
| 136 | Provision of intermediary payment services, provision of payment services not through customers’ payment accounts; provision of mobile money services |
| 137 | Credit information services |
| 138 | Trading in gold, excluding jewelry and fine art gold |
| 139 | Trading in intermediary products/services, data analysis and synthesis |
| 140 | Data floor services |
| 141 | Provision of services related to virtual assets |
| 142 | Personal data processing services |
