The Supreme People’s Procuracy has recently held a signing ceremony for Inter-Joint Circular No. 09, providing guidance on the implementation of Resolution No. 205/2025/QH15 dated 24 June 2025 of the National Assembly on the pilot program authorizing the People’s Procuracy to initiate civil proceedings to protect the civil rights of vulnerable groups or to safeguard public interests (Resolution No. 205).
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The authority of the People’s Procuracy to review, verify, and collect information, documents, and evidence is stipulated in Article 7 of Inter-Joint Circular No. 09, specifically as follows:
- Where the People’s Procuracy has authority to initiate a public-interest civil case, upon receipt of information it may directly carry out, or assign a subordinate People’s Procuracy to carry out, measures for reviewing, verifying, and collecting information, documents, and evidence in accordance with Article 8 of Resolution No. 205/2025/QH15.
- In cases falling under Clause 2 or Clause 3, Article 6 of Resolution No. 205/2025/QH15, the subordinate People’s Procuracy that has received the information shall transfer the case to the superior People’s Procuracy having authority to initiate the lawsuit; or the superior People’s Procuracy having authority to initiate the lawsuit may request the subordinate People’s Procuracy to transfer the case so that the superior People’s Procuracy may carry out measures for reviewing, verifying, and collecting information, documents, and evidence.
- Where a public-interest civil case falls within the initiating authority of a subordinate People’s Procuracy, the superior People’s Procuracy that has received the information shall transfer the case to the subordinate People’s Procuracy for the implementation of measures to review, verify, and collect information, documents, and evidence.
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- Where the People’s Procuracy is exercising prosecutorial powers or supervising the settlement of another case or matter and, in the course thereof, discovers information relating to a public-interest civil case, the authority to review, verify, and collect information, documents, and evidence regarding such public-interest civil case shall be determined as follows:
+ If that People’s Procuracy has authority to initiate the public-interest civil case, it may, concurrently with verifying and collecting information, documents, and evidence of the case or matter under settlement, carry out measures to review, verify, and collect information, documents, and evidence relating to the public-interest civil case.
+ If that People’s Procuracy does not have authority to initiate the public-interest civil case, it shall transfer the information relating to the public-interest civil case to the competent People’s Procuracy for the implementation of measures to review, verify, and collect information, documents, and evidence.
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