Decree 298/2026/ND-CP defining functions, tasks, powers and organisational structure of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

DECREE

Defining the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structure of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism^[1]

Pursuant to Law No. 63/2025/QH15 on Organisation of the Government;

At the proposal of the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism;

The Government promulgates the Decree defining the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structure of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Article 1. Position and functions

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is an agency of the Government, performing the state management of culture; family; physical training and sports; tourism; the press; publishing, printing and distribution; electronic information; and grassroots information and external information nationwide; and public services in the sectors and fields under the Ministry’s state management.

Article 2. Tasks and powers

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall perform the tasks and exercise the powers defined in the Law on Organisation of the Government, and the Government’s Decree defining the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structures of ministries and ministerial-level agencies, and has the following specific tasks and powers:

1. To submit to the Government draft laws and draft resolutions of the National Assembly; draft ordinances and draft resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee; draft decrees and draft resolutions of the Government according to the Ministry’s approved annual law-making programmes and plans, as well as resolutions, projects and schemes as assigned by the Government or the Prime Minister.

2. To submit to the Government or the Prime Minister strategies, master plans, long-term, medium-term and annual development plans as well as national important programmes, projects and works in the sectors and fields under the Ministry’s state management.

3. To submit to the Prime Minister drafts of decisions, directives and other documents on the sectors and fields under the Ministry’s state management.

4. To promulgate circulars, decisions, directives and other documents on the state management of the sectors and fields under the Ministry’s state management.

To formulate national standards; to promulgate national technical regulations, processes, norms, and techno-economic norms in the sectors and fields under the Ministry’s state management.

5. To direct, guide, examine and organise the implementation of legal documents, strategies, master plans, programmes, plans, and national important projects and works that have been promulgated or approved; to carry out public communication and education, and monitor the enforcement, of law in the fields under the Ministry’s state management.

6. Regarding physical training and sports for all:

a/ To submit to the Prime Minister for decision the hosting of regional, continental and world Sports Games in Viet Nam for people with disabilities;

b/ To specify criteria for evaluating mass physical training and sports movements;

c/ To organise and guide the building of a contingent of mass physical training and sports instructors and collaborators; to disseminate and guide methods of physical training and sports; to provide professional further training for grassroots physical training and sports collaborators;

d/ To guide, apply and develop traditional sports and traditional methods of physical training both at home and abroad;

dd/ To decide to organise regional, continental and world sports competitions in Viet Nam for people with disabilities; and national-level mass sports competitions;

e/ To coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Public Security in guiding and organising the implementation of physical training and sports activities in schools and in the people’s armed forces in accordance with law;

g/ To guide the registration of the operation of clubs, mass physical training and sports facilities and fan clubs.

7. Regarding high-performance sports and professional sports:

a/ To submit to the Prime Minister for decision the hosting of regional, continental and world Sports Games in Viet Nam;

b/ To guide and organise the implementation of regulations on regimes and policies for athletes, coaches and referees;

c/ To decide to organise National Sports Games; to organise regional, continental and world championships and youth championships in Viet Nam for different sports; to organise annual national championships and national youth championships for different sports at the proposal of national sports federations; to provide the management of international sports activities held in Viet Nam;

d/ To promulgate standards and guidelines for ranking athletes, coaches and referees; to recognise international sports organisations’ rankings for Vietnamese athletes, coaches and referees in accordance with law;

dd/ To provide the management of the transfer of athletes, and selection of athletes to national sports teams; to specify the order and procedures for establishing national sports delegations and national sports teams for different sports;

e/ To guide the formulation of training and coaching programmes for athletes, coaches and referees; to provide sports-related professional training programmes for professional staff of sports enterprises;

g/ To guide the registration of the operation of professional sports facilities.

8. Regarding tourism resources and tourism system planning:

a/ To guide and organise survey, evaluation and classification of tourism resources; to build a database on tourism resources;

b/ To guide and organise the implementation of the master plan on the tourism system.

9. Regarding tourist zones and tourist attractions:

a/ To decide on the recognition of national tourist zones;

b/ To guide and inspect the recognition of tourist attractions and tourist zones;

c/ To guide the management of national tourist zones;

d/ To coordinate and associate trans-national, inter-regional and inter-provincial tourism activities.

10. Regarding tourism business, tour guiding and tourism promotion:

a/ To manage and organise the issuance and revocation of licences, tour guide cards and other certifications on tourism activities;

b/ To provide guidance on conditions, procedures and dossiers for the issuance, renewal, re-issuance and revocation of tour operator licences;

c/ To provide guidance on standards, order, procedures and dossiers of registration for recognition of ranks of tourist accommodation establishments and revocation of decisions on recognition of ranks of tourist accommodation establishments;

d/ To organise the appraisal and recognition of ranks of tourist accommodation establishments and inspect the quality of tourist accommodation establishments in accordance with law;

dd/ To provide guidance on standards applicable to, model signboards of, and dossiers, and procedures for recognition, of tourist service establishments meeting tourist serving standards;

e/ To specify criteria on persons in charge of tour operator services; contents of training and further training, organisation of exams, and issuance of tour operator certificates; contents of training and further training, organisation of exams and issuance of tour guide certificates; contents of on-site tour guide examination; and foreign-language proficiency standards;

g/ To formulate, and organise the implementation of, national tourism promotion strategies, plans and programmes at home and abroad; to coordinate inter-regional and inter-local tourism promotion activities;

h/ To decide on the establishment of Viet Nam-based representative offices of foreign tourism agencies and international and regional tourism organisations;

i/ To build a tourism management database.

11. Regarding the press (including printed press, electronic press, radio, television, news bulletins, newsletters and special issues):

a/ To organise the provision of information to the press and manage press information; to carry out measurement and disclosure of data related to press activities in accordance with law;

b/ To promulgate regulations on the organisation of press contests and festivals;

c/ To examine deposited copies of press products; to manage the national deposit system for printed press; to implement the electronic legal deposit for radio, television and electronic press products in accordance with law; to guide and examine the making of statements and the provision of information to the press by state administrative agencies in accordance with law; to guide and promote policy communication in the press and mass media;

d/ To issue, modify, supplement, suspend, terminate and revoke licences in the fields of press, radio and television; to issue, renew, re-issue and revoke press cards; to stop press conferences in accordance with the press law;

dd/ To guide press activities and activities of journalists nationwide; to coordinate with related agencies in managing activities of the Vietnamese press involving foreign elements and the press activities of foreigners and foreign organisations in Viet Nam;

e/ To give opinions on the appointment, re-appointment and assignment of the responsibility for managing leaders of press agencies according to regulations.

12. Regarding external information:

a/ To guide the content of, and coordinate in the provision of, external information to news, press and media agencies and forces engaged in Viet Nam’s external information work;

b/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with others in, examining and assessing the effectiveness of external information work of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, provincial-level People’s Committees and press and publishing agencies at home and abroad;

c/ To formulate a mechanism for exchange, coordination, provision and sharing of information between state agencies and news, press and media agencies and forces engaged in external information work;

d/ To monitor, synthesise and report to the Prime Minister matters relating to the provision of information to explain and clarify false information about Viet Nam in various fields.

13. Regarding advertising:

a/ To guide and organise the implementation of legal provisions on advertising activities;

b/ To organise the appraisal of advertised products in accordance with law;

c/ To perform tasks related to the management of advertising in the press, in cyberspace and on publications in accordance with law;

d/ To receive procedures for notification of specialised advertising supplements of printed newspapers in accordance with law;

dd/ To issue letters of confirmation notifying contact information of advertising service providers in Viet Nam; to receive notices, make contacts and send requests for handling illegal online advertising; to coordinate with other agencies in applying technical measures to block illegal advertising services.

14. Regarding grassroots culture-information and public communication:

a/ To guide the use of the National Flag, National Emblem, National Anthem and portrait of President Ho Chi Minh in accordance with law;

b/ To guide and organise the implementation of regulations on founding days, traditional days, response days, ceremonies, funerals, and other rituals under the Ministry’s state management or as assigned by the Government;

c/ To direct, guide and organise grassroots culture-information work; to conduct communications about the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws through cultural, artistic, visual communication, mobile propaganda and the grassroots information system in accordance with law;

d/ To guide the establishment, management and operation of the grassroots information system; to organise the provision and management of information content of the grassroots information system nationwide;

dd/ To prescribe the organisation of mass arts festivals, contests and performances, mobile propaganda and cultural activities; to manage cultural activities and provision of culture and entertainment services in public places;

e/ To guide and organise the implementation of regulations on festivals; to guide the realisation of civilised lifestyles in weddings and funerals, and in building lifestyles; to implement the movement “All people unite to build a cultured life”; to implement measures to prevent superstition, backward customs, and depraved cultural products that are contrary to fine customs and traditions, harmful to health, and destructive to the ecological environment;

15. To guide and organise the implementation of the regulations on the formulation and implementation of village codes and conventions.

16. Regarding family work:  

a/ To disseminate and educate ethics, lifestyle, family behaviours and Vietnamese family values in the new period;

b/ To build and develop the system of Vietnamese family values in the new period; to build cultured family standards;

c/ To build a database on families and the prevention and control of domestic violence; to build, and guide the replication of, happy and sustainably developed family models and domestic violence prevention and control models;

d/ To guide and organise the celebration of Vietnamese family days and the national action month for prevention and control of domestic violence in accordance with law.  

17. Regarding ethnic culture:  

a/ To formulate, and guide and organise the implementation of, policies, programmes, schemes and projects on the preservation and promotion of values of the cultures of ethnic minority communities in Viet Nam;

b/ To guide and organise the implementation of culture, sports and tourism festivals of ethnic groups in different regions and nationwide; to guide cultural and artistic activities serving people in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, areas with difficult or extremely difficult socio-economic conditions, and border and island areas; to disseminate and promote the traditional cultures of ethnic minority groups in Viet Nam.  

18. Regarding cultural heritage:  

a/ To submit to the Prime Minister the ranking, cancellation of ranking, supplementation and modification of scientific dossiers and approval of and decision on boundaries or adjustment of boundaries of protected areas of relics, as well as regulations on relic-adjacent areas not identified as category-II protected areas for special national relics; the nomination to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for the recognition, cancellation of recognition or modification of scientific dossiers of historical-cultural relics and scenic spots of Viet Nam, and those of Viet Nam nominated in coordination with other countries, as World Heritage Sites; the inscription or additional inscription of intangible cultural heritage and documentary heritage of Vietnam, and those of Vietnam nominated in coordination with other countries; the honouring of provinces or centrally governed cities participating in the Creative Cities Network; and joint commemoration of birth and death anniversaries of Vietnamese celebrities who made significant contributions to culture;

b/ To submit to the Prime Minister the recognition and cancellation of recognition of national treasures; grant of permission for bringing national treasures and documentary heritage items inscribed by UNESCO for display, exhibition, research or preservation abroad; plans for disposal of assets being cultural heritage in accordance with law; plans on recovery or purchase with state budget funds and repatriation of overseas vestiges, antiquities, national treasures and valuable documentary heritage items of Vietnamese origin; and mechanisms and policies for mobilising, managing and using resources for safeguarding and promotion of values of cultural heritage;

c/ To appraise and submit to the Prime Minister for approval large-scale underwater archaeological projects of major historical, cultural and scientific significance;

d/ To promulgate the National Action Programme on safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage after inscribed by UNESCO; to guide the reporting on, formulation, and submission of national reports as requested by UNESCO; to appraise schemes on the safeguarding and promotion of values of intangible cultural heritage and documentary heritage after inscribed; to decide on the compilation of dossiers of request for UNESCO assistance in the protection of heritage inscribed on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, at the request of Chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees;

dd/ To guide the inventory of cultural heritage, preparation of scientific dossiers of cultural heritage proposed for ranking or inscription, and cancellation of decisions on ranking or inscription of national relics, intangible cultural heritage and documentary heritage items in national lists;

e/ To appraise and approve planning tasks, master plans, and adjustments to master plans on preservation, restoration and revitalisation of world heritage sites and special national relics in accordance with law; to appraise planning tasks, master plans and adjustments to master plans on preservation, restoration and revitalisation of clusters of national relics or combined clusters of national relics and provincial relics; to appraise projects and techno-economic reports on preservation, restoration and revitalisation of national relics, special national relics and world heritage sites; to certify cases in which relics are degraded and need formulation of relic preservation, restoration and revitalisation projects; to appraise plans on management and regulations on protection of world heritage sites; to give appraisal opinions on the conformity with requirements for safeguarding and on promotion of values of cultural heritage in accordance with law;

g/ To approve boundaries and adjust boundaries of protected areas of national relics; to decide on areas adjacent to national relics that are not identified as category-II protected areas in accordance with law; to decide on the addition, relocation, and change of objects in world heritage sites and special national relics;

h/ To certify the satisfaction of conditions for establishment of public museums; to decide on the ranking and re-ranking of class-I museums; to give opinions on the ranking and re-ranking of class-II and class-III museums; to give opinions on exhibition outlines; to give opinions on dossiers of investment projects on construction, renovation and upgrading of architectural works and technical infrastructure and exhibition at public museums; to decide to hand over discovered vestiges, antiquities and national treasures to public museums or state agencies and organisations with appropriate functions and tasks in accordance with law; to give opinions on preservation and restoration plans for national treasures and documentary heritage after inscribed;

i/ To issue licences for archaeological exploration and excavation; to guide the procedures for registration of vestiges and antiquities and the operation of vestige and antiquity inspection service-providing establishments, and vestige and antiquity trading establishments; to decide on the bringing of antiquities abroad for exhibition, research or preservation for a definite time; to decide on the bringing of national treasures for exhibition, research or preservation for a definite time within the country; to issue licences for the import of vestiges, antiquities and national treasures of Vietnamese origin from abroad into the country; to issue licences for production of replicas of national treasures; to give opinions on the research, collection and documentation of intangible cultural heritage and documentary heritage distributed in 2 or more provinces or centrally run cities in Viet Nam by overseas Vietnamese and foreign organisations and individuals in accordance with law;

k/ To build and manage the national database on cultural heritage;

l/ To guide and examine activities of safeguarding and promoting values of cultural heritage. 

19. Regarding performing arts:

a/ To provide the organisation of contests and festivals of professional art genres;

b/ To approve or halt the organisation of art performances, contests and festivals of performing arts of different genres; to cancel the results of contests and festivals of performing arts of different genres within the Ministry’s competence in accordance with law;

c/ To receive deposited copies of audio recordings and video recordings of art performances for commercial purposes from organisations under central agencies in accordance with law;

d/ To guide the collection, conservation and introduction and promotion of values of traditional Vietnamese performing arts at the national level and the quintessence of world performing arts.

20. Regarding cinema:

a/ To organise national and international film festivals in Viet Nam; to approve the organisation of specialised and thematic film festivals, foreign film days and weeks in Viet Nam and Vietnamese film days and weeks abroad;

b/ To manage the legal deposit and storage of films and documentary materials and moving images produced domestically; and the legal deposit of foreign films that are disseminated and released in Viet Nam;

c/ To issue and revoke licences in the field of cinema within the Ministry’s competence in accordance with law.

21. Regarding fine arts, photography and exhibition:

a/ To manage, safeguard and promote the values of national cultural symbols in accordance with law;

b/ To manage the organisation of national- or regional-level fine arts creation contests; to receive notices regarding creative campaigns, creative camps, contests and festivals of photographic works in Viet Nam that are organised by ministries, departments and central-level mass organisations, and foreign organisations; to receive notices of Vietnamese photographic works’ participation in overseas contests and festivals in the capacity as representative works of Viet Nam;

c/ To guide the organisation of, and organise, the display and exhibition of fine-art works and photographic works;

d/ To guide the authentication of fine-art works and photographic works;

dd/ To issue and revoke licences in the fields of fine arts, photography and exhibition within the Ministry’s competence in accordance with law.

22. Regarding copyright and related rights:

a/ To implement measures to protect the lawful rights and interests of the State, organisations, individuals and society in the field of copyright and related rights;

b/ To guide the provision, cooperation, ordering, use of, and guarantee of copyright over, works, and related rights over performances, audio recordings, video recordings and broadcasts;

c/ To manage and exploit copyright and related rights for which the State acts as the management representative; to acquire copyright and related rights transferred from organisations and individuals to the State in accordance with law;

d/ To register, re-issue, renew and invalidate certificates of registration of copyright and certificates of registration of related rights; to build a system of databases and establish a national information network on copyright and related rights;

dd/ To manage and organise the evaluation of copyright and related rights;

e/ To approve the use of works, performances, audio recordings, video recordings and broadcasts in cases specified by law and treaties to which Viet Nam is a contracting party;

g/ To manage the operation of collective management organisations for copyright and related rights and copyright and related rights representation service organisations; to approve the royalty rates and payment methods in accordance with law.

23. To organise the implementation of the law on intellectual property on press products, encrypted radio and television broadcasts and publications in accordance with law; to request intermediary service providers to comply with the law on intellectual property.

24. Regarding cultural industries:

a/ To assume the prime responsibility for organising the implementation of strategies, programmes and schemes for development of cultural industries in accordance with law;

b/ To guide and coordinate activities for development of cultural industries in the fields under the Ministry’s state management;

c/ To build and manage the database and system of information on cultural industries in accordance with law;

d/ To organise promotion, communication, cooperation and linkage activities for development of cultural industries in accordance with law;

dd/ To monitor, summarise and inspect the implementation of legal provisions, strategies, programmes and schemes on cultural industries in accordance with law.

25. Regarding publishing (including publishing, printing and distribution):

a/ To issue, extend, modify, supplement, suspend, terminate and revoke licences in the fields of publishing, printing and distribution in accordance with law;

b/ To certify and manage publishing registration of publishing houses, registration of operation of printing establishments, registration of printing activities for products not subject to licensing, registration of publishing of publications, and registration of publishing and distribution of electronic publications in accordance with law;

c/ To organise the appraisal of publications in accordance with law; to organise the examination of deposited copies of publications and manage the legal deposit of publications; to organise the ordering and delivery of publications to areas with extreme socio-economic difficulties, deep-lying, remote, mountainous and border areas, and islands; to organise national-level publications fairs and manage the distribution of publications abroad in accordance with law;

d/ To decide to suspend, recall, confiscate, prohibit the circulation of, and destroy, violating publications;

dd/ To issue, extend and revoke editorial practice certificates in accordance with law;

e/ To manage publishing support activities in accordance with law;

g/ To give opinions on the appointment, reappointment, and assignment of the responsibility for managing, leaders of publishing houses in accordance with law.

26. Regarding libraries:

a/ To direct the deployment of interlibrary collaboration; to direct and guide the organisation of professional operations of libraries, and the development of the reading culture; to guide the evaluation of library activities according to national standards and legal provisions;

b/ To guide the conditions for establishment and operation of libraries in accordance with law; to give written opinions concerning the determination of public libraries with important roles that are prioritised for investment by the State in accordance with law;

c/ To formulate mechanisms and policies to mobilise, manage and use resources to develop library activities and the reading culture in accordance with law.

27. Regarding literature:

a/ To formulate, and guide and organise the implementation of, mechanisms and policies on literary activities;

b/ To guide the implementation and examination of literary activities;

c/ To organise literary and artistic creation camps;

d/ To guide and organise national-level literature contests and send Vietnamese literary works abroad to participate in contests or introduce them to international contests;

dd/ To request the suspension of writing camps, literary creation camps, writing contests, literary creation contests, and literary award events; to revoke literary awards within the Ministry’s competence in accordance with law;

e/ To assume the prime responsibility for building, managing, connecting and sharing literary databases, ensuring their consistency with national databases, specialised databases and shared digital platforms; to promote and disseminate Vietnamese literature in the digital environment.

28. Regarding electronic information:

a/ To manage online game services, websites, social networks, information contents, and applications providing information online in accordance with law;

b/ To issue, extend, modify, supplement, suspend, terminate and revoke licences and certificates for online games, establishment of websites, provision of social network services and electronic information in cyberspace in accordance with law; to measure and publish data related to the electronic information field and online information content;

c/ To manage content, quality and prices of radio and television services in accordance with law.

29. Regarding international cooperation:

a/ To submit to competent authorities for decision the conclusion and implementation of treaties; to propose negotiations on treaties in the fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law; to join international organisations as assigned by the Government; to decide on the negotiation, conclusion and implementation of international agreements in the Ministry’s name in accordance with law;

b/ To conclude, and organise and examine the implementation of, programmes and projects receiving international donations; to decide on and permit the organisation of international conferences and seminars in the fields under the Ministry’s management in accordance with law;

c/ To decide on or submit to competent authorities the establishment and management of the operation of Vietnamese Cultural Centres abroad and foreign cultural establishments in Viet Nam in accordance with law;

d/ To organise national- and international-scale events, fairs, seminars, exhibitions and foreign affairs programmes on culture, family, sports, tourism, press and publishing to introduce and promote the image of the Vietnamese country, people and culture and arts.

30. Regarding training, further training and development of human resources:

a/ To guide, examine and evaluate according to the Ministry’s competence the implementation of the law in training, further training and development of human resources in the fields under the Ministry’s management;

b/ To formulate and promulgate according to its competence, or submit to competent authorities for promulgation, legal documents, strategies, master plans, schemes and plans for training, further training and development of human resources in the fields under the Ministry’s management and specific mechanisms and policies in training, further training, employment and preferential treatment for artistic and sports talents.

31. To perform the state management of public services in the sectors and fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law.

32. To perform the tasks and exercise the powers with respect to associations and non-governmental organisations operating in the sectors and fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law.

33. To issue licences for the export and import of goods in the fields falling under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law.

34. To decide to approve, and organise the implementation of, investment projects in the fields falling within the Ministry’s competence in accordance with law.

35. To direct, guide and organise science, technology and innovation activities; the application of scientific and technological advances, digital transformation; the development of digital data and digital cultural environment; environmental protection, and response to climate change in the fields under the Ministry’s management in accordance with the law.

36. To exercise the rights and perform the responsibilities of the representative of the owner of state capital amounts in state enterprises, state capital-invested enterprises, and off-budget state financial funds under the Ministry’s management in accordance with law.

37. To perform the task of managing conditional business lines and services in the fields falling within the Ministry’s competence in accordance with law.

38. To carry out inspection; to receive citizens; to resolve complaints and denunciations; to prevent and combat corruption and negative practices; to practice thrift, combat waste and handle violations in accordance with law; to conduct specialised inspection under the Ministry’s management.

39. To decide on, and direct the implementation of, the Ministry’s administrative reform programme according to the objectives and contents of the state administrative reform programme approved by the Government or the Prime Minister; to propose or decide according to the Ministry’s competence the decentralisation of state management powers in the sectors and fields under the Ministry’s state management.

40. To direct and guide the performance of emulation and reward work in the fields under the Ministry’s state management in accordance with law.

41. To manage the organisational structure, job positions, civil servant and public employee structure, civil servant payroll and number of workers in public non-business units in accordance with law; to manage cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers under the Ministry; to implement salary regimes and regimes and policies on preferential treatment, commendation and disciplining for cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers under the Ministry’s management in accordance with law.

42. To manage assigned finances and assets and organise the implementation of allocated budgets in accordance with law.

43. To perform other tasks assigned by the Government and the Prime Minister and prescribed by law.

Article 3. Organisational structure

1. The Department of Organisation and Personnel.

2. The Department of Planning and Finance.

3. The Department of Legal Affairs.

4. The Department of Science, Technology, Training and Environment.

5. The Department of Ethnic Cultures.

6. The Office.

7. The Sports Authority of Viet Nam.

8. The Viet Nam National Authority of Tourism.

9. The Authority of Press.

10. The Authority of Culture-Grassroots Information and Family.

11. The Department of Cultural Heritage.

12. The Department of Performing Arts.

13. The Department of Cinema.

14. The Authority of Cultural Industries and Copyright.

15. The Department of Fine Arts, Photography and Exhibition.

16. The Authority of Publishing and Libraries.

17. The Authority of Electronic Information and Digital Transformation.

18. The Department of International Cooperation.

19. The Vietnam Institute of Culture, Arts, Sports and Tourism.

20. The Culture Newspaper.

21. The Culture and Arts Magazine.

22. The School of Culture, Sports and Tourism Management Staff.

The organisations specified in Clauses 1 thru 18 of this Article are administrative organisations assisting the Minister in performing the state management function; the organisations specified in Clauses 19 thru 22 of this Article are public non-business units serving the Ministry’s state management function.

The Viet Nam National Authority of Tourism and the Sports Authority of Viet Nam have seals with the national emblem.

The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall submit to the Prime Minister for decision and promulgation a list of other non-business units under the Ministry.

The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall define the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structures of the agencies and units under the Ministry.

Article 4. Transitional provisions

The Viet Nam Authority of Ethnic Cultures, the Copyright Office of Vietnam, the Department of Grassroots Culture, Family and Library, the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information, the Authority of Publishing, Printing and Distribution, the Authority of Grassroots Information and External Information and the Digital Transformation Centre of Culture, Sports and Tourism (prescribed in the Government’s Decree No. 43/2025/ND-CP of February 28, 2025, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structure of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) shall continue operating until the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism promulgates decisions defining the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structures of the Department of Ethnic Cultures, the Authority of Cultural Industries and Copyright, the Authority of Culture-Grassroots Information and Family, the Authority of Electronic Information and Digital Transformation and the Authority of Publishing and Libraries.

Article 5. Effect

1. This Decree takes effect on July 28, 2026.

2. This Decree replaces the Government’s Decree No. 43/2025/ND-CP of February 28, 2025, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organisational structure of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Article 6. Implementation responsibility

The Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, other ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies and Chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees shall implement this Decree.-

On behalf of the Government
For the Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister

PHAM THI THANH TRA