Law No. 33/2013/QH13 on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

This Law, consisting of 47 articles divided into six Chapters, provides for natural disaster prevention and control activities; rights and obligations of agencies, organizations, households and individuals engaged in natural disaster prevention and control activities; and the state management of, and assurance of resources for, natural disaster prevention and control. The basic principles of the natural disaster prevention and control are: 1. Proactive prevention, timely response to, and urgent and effective remediation of consequences of natural disasters; 2. Natural disaster prevention and control are the responsibility of the State, organizations and individuals in which the State plays the key role, organizations and individuals play the proactive role and communities help one another; 3. Natural disaster prevention and control are carried out under the on-the-spot motto; 4. Natural disaster prevention and control contents must be integrated into national and local socio-economic development master plans and plans and sectoral development master plans and plans; 5. Humanity, fairness, transparency and gender equity must be guaranteed in natural disaster prevention and control; 6. Natural disaster prevention and control activities must be based on scientific grounds, combining traditional experiences and scientific and technological advances, combining structural and non-structural solutions; protecting the environment and ecosystems and adapting to climate change; 7. Natural disaster prevention and control activities are assigned, decentralized and closely coordinated among involved forces and conform with the level of natural disaster risks.
This Law is divided as follows: General Provisions (Chap. I); Natural Disaster Prevention and Control Activities (Chap. II); Rights and Obligations of Agencies, Organizations, Households and Individuals in Natural Disaster Prevention and Control (Chap. III); International Cooperation in Natural Disaster Prevention and Control (Chap. IV); Responsibility for State Management of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control (Chap. V); Implementation Provisions (Chap. VI).