Environmental protection is an urgent task and can not be overlooked in the process development of economic - social  . One of the important tools in protecting the environment by the Party and State is always attaches great importance to the legal system for environmental protection. Orientation on building, improving the law on the environment is one of the key tasks in order to meet the requirements of sustainable economic development, implement the international commitments of Vietnam
     Environmental Protection Law 2014 has change the description of environmental term, with the view, the people are part of the environment and interact with the different components of the environment in order to specify responsible of humans with environment.
    Environmental Protection Law 2014 has 20 chapters and 170 articles, and inherit the content and basic structure of the Environmental Protection Law 2005; overcoming the limitations of Impractical articles; legalizing the new policy on environmental protection; expand and concretize a number of provisions on environmental protection; handle duplicate and conflict with other laws in order to ensure uniformity in the legal system; establish legal premise to build the decrees on environmental protection and construction of the laws on the protection of environmental components.