April 8, 2021
(Photo of Longwu Tea Garden from Visual Chinese)
The protection and management of "West Lake Longjing" tea in Hangzhou may have laws to follow.
On April 6, 2021, "Hangzhou West Lake Longjing Tea Protection and Management Regulations (Draft)" was published on the official website of the Municipal Bureau of Justice for public opinions, and legal provisions were made from the aspects of "West Lake Longjing" cultural protection and inheritance, quality protection and promotion, special label management and brand protection.
"West lake longjing tea" refers to the native to west lake longjing tea producing region, choose group, longjing 43, longjing longjing tea leaf, etc from the group of breeding and the system of examination and approval of the west lake longjing tea shoots of tea varieties leaf as raw material, adopts the traditional stall process such as green, green pot, pot in the local processing, has a "color green, aromas, green, form beauty" green tea quality characteristics of the sector.
According to the draft regulation (draft for public consultation), the transaction of Xihu Longjing tea between production enterprises or between enterprises and individuals shall be directly transferred to the special marking data in the digital management system of Xihu Longjing tea, and the special marking shall not be transferred. The unused special mark should be returned within the specified time. If the special mark is not returned, it will be deemed that the special mark has not been used in the specified way.
Those who fail to transfer the special marks in a standardized way or fail to use the special marks in a prescribed way shall be ordered by the agricultural and rural administrative departments to make corrections and their illegal gains shall be confiscated; Those who fail to make corrections within the time limit and if the circumstances are serious, may be imposed a fine of between not less than 2,000 yuan and not more than 10,000 yuan on an individual and not more than 50,000 yuan on a unit.
(Source: thepaper.cn)
