In the framework of activity COMP-3 of EU-Viet Nam MUTRAP III which focuses on “Upgrading Vietnamese consumer protection legislation”, international and local experts of the Project studied and prepared two technical reports on “Review, systematize current regulations on consumer protection” and “Recommendations on the Draft Law on Consumer Protection”. The Report consists two parts: Part 1: "Review, systematize current regulations on consumer protection and Part 2: "Recommendations on the Draft Law on Consumer Protection".

The technical report of activity SERV-2A  “Supporting Ministry of Planning and Investment on Formulating the Draft Comprehensive Strategy for Services Sector Development to the year 2020 and a vision to 2025”  is built on as supplement to the report of “General Framework for a National Strategy for the Services Sector in Viet Nam up to 2020” (GFSS) released in 2006, which was part of a larger three-year project funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on “Capacity Strengthening to Manage and Promote Trade in Services in Viet Nam in the Context of Integration” (or “Trade in Services” Project VIE/02/009). The authors of the report focus on complementing the GFSS and recommendations for the main directions for preparation of the CSSSD.

The report is focused on regulatory review of Viet Nam’s distribution services and recommendations for WTO compatible sector regulations such as policy making, law making and regulation, economic need test and licensing in general etc.

The present joint study of DMI experts gives an overview of the Doha Agenda negotiations starting from March 2007, which basically is coinciding Viet Nam’s WTO accession date (11 January 2007). The subjects covered include negotiations on agriculture, NAMA, trade in services, institutional and developmental issues, rules, trade facilitation and trade-related intellectual property. The individual studies present the state-of-play in the negotiations and underline the subjects which are of particular importance for Viet Nam. As the country is a very recently acceded member of the WTO, and as such it has a special status, the papers analyze the implications of that particular situation in each of the areas covered.

The WTO-5 technical report addresses the inconsistencies existing in three key pieces of legislation, namely the Commercial law, the Competition Law and the Trade Remedies Ordinances, in relation to Viet Nam’s international obligations. It also provides recommendations in order to improve the interface between these domestic laws and their implementing Decrees and the WTO rules and all other relevant international trade treaties.