THE PRIME MINISTER

Decision No. 338/QD-TTg dated February 19, 2013 of the Prime Minister approving the strategy on judicial record development by 2020 with a vision to 2030
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the Law on Judicial record dated June 17, 2009;
At the proposal of the Minister of Justice,
Article 1. To approve the “Strategy for development of judicial record by 2020, with a vision to 2030 together with this Decision.
Article 2. This Decision takes effect on its signing date.
Article 3. The Ministry of Justice shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the ministries and sectors concerned to execute this Decision.
Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies, and Chairman of People’s Committees of centrally-affiliated provinces and cities are liable to execute this Decision.
Prime Minister
Nguyen Tan Dung
 
STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF JUDICIAL RECORD BY 2020, WITH A VISION TO 2030
(Promulgated together with the Prime Minister's Decision No. 338/QD-TTg of February 19, 2013)
I. THE NECESSITY TO PROMULGATE THE STRATEGY
1. Background
Judicial record are of extremely important significance to the civil life of citizens, personnel management and criminal procedure activities, satisfying the requirements of proving personal judicial details as well as creating conditions for convicts in having their criminal records expunged and in re-integrating into the community.
In most countries, the judicial record management systems have been established and developed for tens or hundreds of years, playing an important role in assuring transparency and guaranteeing the exercise of citizens’ democratic rights, which serve as a means to expunge criminal records when convicts meet all conditions of criminal records. Judicial record also serve as an instrument for the procedure-conducting agencies to identify circumstances of recidivism or dangerous recidivism when dealing with specific cases.
The institution on judicial record has existed in Vietnam for more than 100 years but undergone different periods. After the August 1945 Revolution, the Vietnamese State still maintained the regime on judicial record managed by the Ministry of Justice and courts. On November 2, 1955, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Public Security issued the Joint Circular No. 1909-VHC on the monitoring of judicial record and personal identification papers of the accused and suspects. Accordingly, the management of judicial record was transferred to and performed only by the Ministry of Public Security.
Stepping into the period of renovation, starting from the Decree No. 38/CP of June 4, 1993, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Justice, the Government has assigned the management of judicial record to the Ministry of Justice.