The Fair Competition Review Regulations will come into effect on August 1st

The Regulation specifies the standards for fair competition review. Drafting policy measures shall not contain content that restricts or indirectly restricts market access and exit, restricts the free flow of goods and factors, improperly affects production and operation costs, or affects production and operation behavior. The market supervision and management department shall organize spot checks on relevant policy measures, and urge the drafting unit to rectify those that violate the provisions of the Regulations. Any unit or individual may report to the market supervision and management department any policy measures that violate the provisions of the Regulations.

Starting from August, personal proof items for housing provident fund can be processed by displaying the code

The Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development on Integrating Personal Proof of Housing Provident Fund and Promoting the Work of "Bright Code Handling" proposes that, relying on the national housing provident fund mini program and the national housing provident fund supervision service platform, when housing provident fund depositors apply for the issuance of personal certificates such as employee deposit certificates, off-site loan deposit usage certificates, loan settlement certificates, etc., they will be provided with real-time online issuance, automatic backend verification and other services, and a unified "electronic code" will be used to replace the original three paper certificates, realizing the "bright code handling" of personal proof of housing provident fund. Starting from August 2024, the personal certification items for housing provident fund will be fully implemented and can be processed by displaying the code.

The "Administrative Penalty Discretionary Application Rules for Drug Supervision and Administration" will come into effect on August 1st

The National Medical Products Administration has issued the "Administrative Penalty Discretionary Application Rules for Drug Supervision and Administration", which will come into effect on August 1, 2024. The "Rules" have improved the administrative penalty discretion work of drug regulation, requiring drug supervision and management departments at all levels to implement the law enforcement responsibility system and the fault accountability system, establish and improve the supervision mechanism of administrative penalty discretion, promote the guidance of typical cases, timely correct illegal or obviously inappropriate administrative penalty discretion standards or behaviors, and continuously regulate the exercise of administrative penalty discretion.

The newly revised "Measures for the Administration of Price Index Behavior of Important Goods and Services" will come into effect on August 11th

In order to further standardize the behavior of price indices for important goods and services, promote the healthy and orderly development of the price index market, the newly revised "Management Measures for Price Index Behavior of Important Goods and Services" will come into effect on August 11, 2024. This revision has optimized and improved certain provisions of the "Measures" based on work practice and actual situations, mainly by strengthening the norms of price information collection behavior, enhancing the representativeness of price information samples, strengthening the disclosure of price index related information, and adding methods for compiling price indices in case of emergencies.

The Regulations on the Governance of Cyberbullying Information will come into effect on August 1st

The State Internet Information Office, together with the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the State Administration of Radio and Television, announced the Regulations on Cyber Violence Information Governance, which will come into force on August 1, 2024. The Regulations provide strong support for strengthening the governance of online violence information from the aspects of clarifying the main responsibilities of network information content management, establishing and improving prevention and early warning mechanisms, regulating the disposal of online violence information and accounts, strengthening the protection of user rights and interests, strengthening supervision and management, and clarifying legal responsibilities. The Regulations specify that the governance of online violence information adheres to the principles of prevention at the source, combination of prevention and control, addressing both symptoms and root causes, and collaborative governance. It establishes a supervision and management mechanism for online violence information and encourages network related industry organizations to strengthen industry self-discipline.

Four national standards for ecological restoration of mines will be officially implemented from August 1st

The Ministry of Natural Resources has issued four national standards for mine ecological restoration, including the "Technical Specifications for Coal Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration", "Technical Specifications for Metal Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration", "Technical Specifications for Oil and Gas Project Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration", and "Technical Specifications for Monitoring and Evaluation of Mine Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration". Four national standards will be officially implemented from August 1st. This is the first batch of national standards specifically aimed at ecological restoration of mines in production, which puts forward requirements for "simultaneous mining and restoration" of production mines, filling the gap in this field. The series of standards provide scientific support for mining enterprises to carry out ecological restoration.

The revised and issued "Management Measures for Natural Gas Utilization" will come into effect on August 1st

The National Development and Reform Commission has revised and issued the "Management Measures for Natural Gas Utilization", which will come into effect on August 1, 2024. The Measures consist of 16 articles, clarifying the overall principles, scope of application, management departments, and support directions for natural gas utilization, further guiding the standardized and effective development of the natural gas market. The direction of natural gas utilization follows the principles of "priority, restricted, prohibited, and allowed", and provides gas guarantee for priority natural gas utilization directions; No new or expanded production capacity related to restricted natural gas utilization will be built; For upstream enterprises in the prohibited natural gas utilization direction, they no longer meet the gas demand.

The new regulations for traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces will come into effect on August 1st

The National Medical Products Administration has issued the "Regulations on the Management of Labels for Traditional Chinese Medicine Pieces", which will come into effect on August 1, 2024. Among them, the shelf life labeling will be implemented from August 1, 2025. The Regulations consist of 22 articles, clarifying the scope of application, overall requirements, responsible parties, packaging requirements, label printing requirements, label content requirements, packaging label management during shipment, additional label items, special Chinese medicine decoction piece identification and other related requirements. The Regulation specifies that the labels of traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces produced and operated within the territory of the People's Republic of China shall comply with the requirements of this Regulation. This regulation does not apply to the direct use of traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces prepared by drug manufacturing enterprises for drug production.