In order to simplify administrative procedures, enhance transparency, and support businesses and household businesses, Enterprise Law 2020 and Decree 168/2025/ND-CP Specifically, the provisions on business registration in this Law have brought about many important improvements in the business registration process and abolished some unnecessary procedures. This article will summarize the points to note regarding the business seal applicable from 2021.
I. Businesses will no longer need to notify authorities about the use, changes, or cancellation of their company seal.
Specifically, the new regulations regarding corporate seals at Enterprise Law 2020 the regulation has been removed. "Before using the seal, businesses are obligated to notify the business registration authority of the seal design so that it can be publicly posted on the National Business Registration Portal."
Whereby, Article 43 Regulations regarding company seals only include the following contents:
- The seal includes seals made at seal-making establishments or seals in the form of digital signatures as prescribed by law on electronic transactions.
- Businesses decide on the type, quantity, form, and content of the seals for the business, its branches, representative offices, and other units.
- The management and safekeeping of the seal shall be carried out in accordance with the company's charter or regulations issued by the enterprise, branch, representative office, or other unit of the enterprise that possesses the seal.
- Businesses use seals in transactions in accordance with the law.
II. Businesses do not need to affix a seal in their business registration documents.
Regarding the use of seals, at Clause 5 Article 4 Decree 168/2025/ND-CP regulations:
- Businesses are not required to affix a seal to documents such as business registration applications, meeting minutes, resolutions, or decisions included in the business registration dossier.
- The stamping of other documents in the business registration file shall be carried out in accordance with relevant legal regulations.