Decree No. 142/2026/NĐ-CP detailing a number of articles of, and measures for implementing, the Law on Artificial Intelligence

Summary

Main implementing decree of Viet Nam's Law on Artificial Intelligence, detailing a number of its articles, from the one-stop AI portal and national database of AI systems to risk classification, conformity assessment and management of high-risk systems, controlled testing and impact assessment of AI used by state bodies. Providers classify systems before use; deployers reclassify with the provider when changes create new or higher risk. Providers must mark AI-generated audio, images and video in machine-readable form, and deployers must label content that imitates real people or events. Serious incidents must be reported within 72 hours or 5 working days, depending on the case.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Vietnamese text.

Safety topics

Status notes

Dated Hà Nội, 30 April 2026; the Government portal's digital signature on the published copy is dated 7 May 2026. Article 45 sets entry into force on 1 May 2026. Article 5(6) lets test, inspection and conformity results already obtained under sectoral, standards or product-quality law count toward the AI Law's requirements. The Ministry of Science and Technology manages and operates the portal (Article 4) and provides on it an optional automated risk-classification support tool (Article 10). Article 12 sets risk-classification dossiers for high- and medium-risk systems; Article 18 requires notice and visible labels for AI-generated or AI-edited content that could be mistaken for authentic; Article 19 defines serious incidents and sets preliminary reports within 72 hours for urgent cases and 5 working days for others, with a full report within 15 days; Chapter IV (Articles 21-27) sets a voluntary controlled-testing regime with three levels. Article 4(3)(d) exempts AI systems and databases serving the internal work of Party bodies and political organisations, and systems on the state-secret, defence and security lists, from notification, registration and public data sharing on the portal. The high-risk list is set separately by Decision 33/2026/QĐ-TTg.

Sources

Open the official source https://datafiles.chinhphu.vn/cpp/files/vbpq/2026/4/142-ndcp.signed.pdf

Secondary source: https://moc.gov.vn/vn/tin-tuc/1305/93854/nguyen-tac-phan-loai-va-danh-gia-su-phu-hop-he-thong-tri-tue-nhan-tao.aspx

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-14notes: Dated Hà Nội, 30 April 2026; the Government portal's digital signature on the pu → Dated Hà Nội, 30 April 2026; the Government portal's digital signature on the pu — 'Reported further content' and 'Legal databases and the Ministry of Construction report the effective date' were hedges: Articles 12, 18, 21-27 and 45 are in the stored Decree and are now stated plainly. The Hai Phong plan, not stored, moved to leads.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-14summary: Main implementing decree of Viet Nam's Law on Artificial Intelligence. Article 1 → Main implementing decree of Viet Nam's Law on Artificial Intelligence, detailing — Article 1(1) details 16 provisions of the Law, points (a) to (p), not five; the summary now names the main ones, including conformity assessment (Law Art. 13), high-risk management (Art. 14), controlled testing (Art. 21) and impact assessment for state use (Art. 27(5)). Reclassification by deployers is 'in coordination with the provider' (phối hợp với nhà cung cấp, Arts 5(3) and 6(4)). Marking and labelling follow Arts 17 and 18; incident deadlines follow Art. 19(3). The 'self-assessment tool' is rendered as the Decree names it, an automated risk-classification support tool (Công cụ hỗ trợ phân loại rủi ro tự động), now in notes.2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-14english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — No English version in the stored copies, and none found in a targeted search on 14 Oct 2026.manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-14country: Viet Nam → Vietnam — Country names follow pipeline/frame.json, which uses common English short names; titles and issuing bodies keep the issuer's own spelling.manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-14jurisdiction: Viet Nam → Vietnam — Country names follow pipeline/frame.json, which uses common English short names; titles and issuing bodies keep the issuer's own spelling.manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Viet Nam Law on Artificial Intelligence (2025) Vietnam · In force

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Citation

Government of Viet Nam (drafted by the Ministry of Science and Technology). Decree No. 142/2026/NĐ-CP detailing a number of articles of, and measures for implementing, the Law on Artificial Intelligence [Decree No. 142/2026/NĐ-CP]. 2026-04-30. https://datafiles.chinhphu.vn/cpp/files/vbpq/2026/4/142-ndcp.signed.pdf. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-14 (level A). Local copy archive/VN-04/2026-10-11/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-11 19:39:04 UTC, SHA-256 18b99b9bfdd4c9f237f84dfd16480735773f390b64381491404003745cdd5b6e. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record VN-04.

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