Background
The Law Reform Steering Committee is chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the Council of Ministers and coordinates legal reform across ministries and institutions. On 10 June 2026, Deputy Prime Minister Vongsey Vissoth chaired a mid-year meeting to review the committee’s first-half 2026 outputs and set directions for continued work.
The committee evaluates strategic frameworks and organises sector and ministry-level mechanisms to align national legal reform with the government’s long-term development vision. Meeting outcomes include approval of a mid-year results report, endorsement of draft frameworks such as a rule-of-law culture framework and an ethics guide for legislative practice, and discussion of a central legal data centre and public legal-data website intended to compile Royal Government legal instruments and jurisprudential documents with quality, security, comprehensiveness and multifunctionality.
Scope of Application
The committee’s decisions and guidance apply to ministries and state institutions instructed to establish internal law-reform working groups under Royal Government Directive No.18 SR (14 Oct 2025). The scope covers coordination of draft laws, preparation of technical analyses, and the consolidation of legal documents for national-level compilation and publication.
Key Provisions or Decisions
At the 10 June 2026 session the committee reviewed and approved the first-half 2026 results report and confirmed the direction of ongoing reform activities. Specific decisions recorded in the meeting included: the preparation and circulation of a national vision framework for improving the completeness of Cambodia’s legal system; development of a framework on building a rule-of-law culture; drafting a professional ethics guide for legislative practice; expedited creation of a legal data centre and a legal-data website to serve as a central repository of government legal instruments and jurisprudential materials; and the establishment of four sectoral technical committees to provide sector-specific legal review and technical advice.
Implications for Investors, Businesses, or Compliance
Ministries and institutions were instructed to establish ministry-level law reform working groups in line with Royal Government Directive No.18 SR (14 Oct 2025) and to prepare action plans aligned with the steering committee’s guidance. The meeting record states the legal-data centre and website are intended to become a common point for collecting and compiling all government legal documents and jurisprudential records, with emphasis on quality, security and multifunctional access. Regulatory affairs, compliance units and legal practitioners should monitor the committee’s published outputs and the operationalisation of ministry working groups for updates to consolidated legal texts and procedural guidance.
Official Source
Office of the Council of Ministers Facebook post, 10 June 2026: https://www.facebook.com/ocmcambodia/posts/pfbid0A1Ummfu2AgbthHUyULtYsfNT1FK9guT9xDxBAmV5udxPKq5K7WT2w2KhqRsa8VLgl
