Instructing people to comment on the Draft Penal Code (amended) on VNeID

(Dan Tri) - People can comment on the Draft Penal Code (amended) on the VNeID application until September 20, with the options to approve or disapprove and send comments on each content.

The Penal Code regulates crimes, penalties and issues related to criminal liability, which have a direct impact on crime prevention and control, maintaining social order and safety and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the State, organizations and individuals.

Therefore, people's participation and comments will help make the regulations more realistic, feasible and suitable for life.

Faced with new practical requirements, especially the need to innovate thinking about law building, proactively prevent crime and ensure the humanity of criminal policy, the Ministry of Public Security was assigned to preside over the development of the Draft Penal Code (amended) in 2026.

The draft is built in the direction of continuing to institutionalize the policy of innovating the work of law construction and enforcement; At the same time, overcome the limitations and inadequacies of the current Penal Code, meeting the requirements of fighting crime in the new situation.

According to the drafting agency, the draft also proposes regulations in the direction of increasing strictness in handling crimes and continuing to demonstrate humanitarian policies, including expanding a number of cases of exclusion, exemption or reduction of criminal liability.

From now until September 20, people can contribute to the Draft Penal Code (amended) through the VNeID application. The article below will guide you how to do this.

Steps to contribute to the Draft Penal Code (amended) through the VNeID application

After updating the VNeID application to the latest version and the level 2 electronic identification account has been activated, readers can follow these steps to contribute to the Draft Penal Code (amended) through the VNeID application:

- First, activate the VNeID application on your smartphone and log in to your electronic identification account.

- After logging in to the application, click on "Suggestions: Draft Penal Code (amended)" on VNeID's main interface.

- Before giving their opinions, people can click on the "View document" button in the interface that appears next to preview the revised content in the Draft Penal Code, helping to provide appropriate comments.

- After viewing the amended content in the Draft Penal Code, people can return to VNeID's interface, select "Completely Agree" to agree with the entire content of the Draft and press the "Send comments" button.

In case you agree but still want to add some comments, you select "Agree with comments", then scroll down, click "Select a law that needs comments" to select articles in the Draft Penal Code (people can choose multiple laws to comment on at the same time), then enter the content of comments for each selected article in the empty box and click the "Send comments" button.

If you do not agree with the Draft Penal Code, people can select "Disapprove", then click "Select a law to comment on" to select the articles in the Draft that you do not agree with and give your comments and reasons for disapproval in the empty box, then click the "Send comments" button.

Finally, a dialog box appears informing that the people's comments have been successfully sent.

The process of collecting people's comments on the Draft Penal Code (amended) through the VNeID application will last until September 20. People's comments through VNeID will be compiled and sent to the drafting agency.