Ensuring the legal security of electronic contracts in the agricultural product supply chain of cooperatives - Practices and solutions
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https://doi.org/10.31276/CSQL.2026.3961Keywords:
agricultural supply chain, cooperatives, electronic contracts, legal value, traceabilityAbstract
In the context of agricultural digital transformation, electronic contracts serve as a legal foundation for ensuring the operation of agricultural supply chains when products enter the market. This article focuses on analysing the requirements for safeguarding the legal security of electronic contracts in the activities of agricultural cooperatives, with a concentration on the 2023 Law on Electronic Transactions and the 2015 Civil Code of Vietnam. The study clarifies the development of the legal framework governing the validity of data messages and electronic signatures, while identifying practical barriers that continue to limit the enforceability of electronic contracts within agricultural cooperatives, especially in terms of technological capacity, legal awareness, evidentiary reliability, and trust between contracting parties. On that basis, the article proposes systemic solutions to foster a reliable legal and technical infrastructure to enable electronic contracts to become an effective legal instrument for protecting the legitimate rights and interests of agricultural cooperatives in sustainable agricultural product consumption linkages, for the consumption of agricultural products.
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