Accordingly, the National Insurance Database is a national database that stores information on social insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance and on health and social security recognized by a competent authority and ensures the insurance rights and obligations of citizens.

National Insurance Database is a Government database that is uniformly built across the country and used by all agencies, organizations and individuals in order to provide accurate and timely information on insurance serving the state management, meeting socio-economic development requirements and legitimate requirements of agencies, organizations and individuals.

In the implementation of the database, the Decree clearly defines the responsibilities of each ministry and branch, including: Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Information and Communications, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of National Defense, the Government Office, Vietnam Social Security and Ministries, Ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies and People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities. In which, here lies the responsibilities of Vietnam Social Security:

1. Vietnam Social Security is the agency in charge of the National Insurance Database.

2. To be in charge of building, updating, maintaining, exploiting and using the National Insurance Database.

3. Assuming the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with ministries, ministerial-level agencies and Government agencies in the elaboration of the process of gathering, updating and adjusting information on the National Insurance Database.

4. Provide data of the National Insurance Database in accordance with the provisions of Decree No. 47/2020/ND-CP.

5. Connecting and supplying data from the National Insurance Database to the National Data Portal serving agencies, organizations and individuals to exploit information according to the provisions of this Decree. The connection and sharing of information must ensure the confidentiality of the state, personal secrets, family secrets and private lives according to the provisions of Article 5 and Article 6 of Decree No. 47/2020/ND-CP.

6. Reviewing regulations and procedures in the areas of social insurance, unemployment insurance and health insurance to simplify personal papers on the basis of using data from the National Insurance Database.

7. Managing and operating the systems to run smoothly and continuously; ensuring infrastructure conditions for data connection and exchange according to the provisions of Article 27 of Decree No. 47/2020/ND-CP.

8. Assuming the prime responsibility for, and coordinating with the Ministry of Information and Communications in formulating plans and solutions to respond to information safety and network security incidents for the national insurance database information system; developing and implementing a security monitoring solution for the information system of the National Insurance Database.

9. Assuming the prime responsibility for, and coordinating with the Ministry of Information and Communications and related agencies in formulating and promulgating according to its competence technical regulations on data exchange structures, data sharing regulations and procedures within specialized data under its management authority; promulgating regulations on data exploitation and use of national databases and databases of ministries and branches under their respective management.

Regarding exploitation and use, the Decree stipulates:

1. Vietnam Social Security shall exploit and use data from the National Insurance Database in service of specialized professional activities in the insurance domain.

2. The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs shall exploit and use data to serve the state management of social insurance, employment and social security.

3. The Ministry of Health shall exploit and use data for state management in the health sector, including information and data on health insurance.

4. The Government Office shall exploit data in service of the Government's and Prime Minister's direction and administration.

5. The Ministry of Information and Communications shall exploit and use data to combine with other data sources to create additional information for the purpose of advising and supporting policy promulgation in e-Government and digital Government.

6. The Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of National Defence shall exploit and use data in service of the state management in the field of security and defense.

7. State management agencies according to their functions and tasks shall exploit and use data in service of state management activities according to their competence.

8. Agencies, organizations and individuals are permitted to exploit and use their information or personal information of others if given consent in accordance with the provisions of law.

Regarding methods to exploit and use data:

- Agencies, organizations and individuals shall exploit and use data from National Insurance Database via National Data Portal, National Public Service Portal, VSS Portal and other forms provided by the competent authority.

- Agencies, organizations and individuals have the right to extract their information from the National Insurance Database. The extracted data is digitally signed by the Vietnam Social Security and is valid as certified by a competent authority.

- Agencies and organizations are not allowed to request individuals to provide relevant documents if they have exploited personal information from the National Insurance Database.

Decree No. 43/2021/ND-CP takes effect from June 1, 2021. /.