China SAMR: Legislation will be introduced in 2021 to ban unfair competition on the Internet and to amend the anti-monopoly law

The year 2021 will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the first year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and the start of a new journey to build a modern socialist country in all respects. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the State Administration for Market Regulation will strengthen legislation in key areas, strengthen overall coordination of legislation, speed up legislative process, optimize legislative procedures, and strive to improve the quality and efficiency of legislation, so as to lay a solid legal foundation for the long-term development of market supervision.

First, we will arrange legislative items in a scientific and reasonable way to focus on the key work of market regulation

  1. To draft six drafts of laws and administrative regulations for submission: Product Quality Law, Provisions on Administrative Punishment for Price Illegal Acts, Regulations on Industrial Product License Administration, Regulations on Certification and Accreditation, Regulations on the Implementation of Drug Administration Law, and Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Patent Law.

  2. Draft and revise 61 department rules and regulations: First, to strengthen and improve the law enforcement of anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition and earnestly safeguard fair market competition, revise the regulations on the protection of trade secrets and formulate certain regulations on prohibiting acts of unfair competition on the Internet.

  3. Continue to actively cooperate with legislative projects advanced by the legislature: continue to cooperate with the legislature in revising laws and regulations, such as the Anti-Monopoly Law, the Measurement Law, the Regulations on the Administration of Registration of Commercial Subject, the Regulations on Enterprise Information Disclosure, the Regulations on the Implementation of the Law on the Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests, and the Regulations on the Market Supervision and Administration Institute.

     

    Source: State Administration for Market Regulation

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