Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation announced the legislative work plan for 2021, specifying that there are 67 legislative projects in the whole year, including 6 drafts of laws and administrative regulations to be drafted for review, and 61 departmental regulations to be revised (including 36 legislative projects of the first type and 25 legislative projects of the second type).

In 2021, the legislative work of the State Administration for Market Regulation will focus on the difficult problems urgently needed for reform and development and strongly reflected by the people as well as the prominent problems that need to be solved urgently in the market supervision work, and make overall plans and promote the work of legislation, reform and abolition as a whole. Among them, in order to strengthen and improve anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition law enforcement, and earnestly safeguard fair competition in the market, the State Administration for Market Regulation will continue to actively cooperate with the legislature in the revision of the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China, formulate Several Provisions on Prohibiting Unfair Competition on the Internet, and revise the Provisions on the Protection of Trade Secrets. In addition, to strengthen the comprehensive management of food safety and strengthen the whole process supervision of drug safety, regulations such as Administrative Measures for Supervision and Inspection of Food Production and Operation, and Administrative Measures for Supervision of Drug Operation were revised. Regulations such as Administrative Measures for Safety Supervision and Inspection of Special Equipment were revised to improve the ability to investigate and manage hidden dangers in safety supervision of special equipment. The legislature was actively cooperated with, to formulate the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on the Administration of Registration of Commercial Subjects, and revise the regulations such as Measures for the Implementation of the Administration of Registration of Enterprise Names, and Interim Measures for Handling Disputes of Enterprise Names, in order to continuously and deeply promote the reform of the commercial system. For the purpose of standardizing the market order and improving the rules of the market supervision system, the State Administration for Market Regulation revised the regulations such as Interim Provisions on the Publicity of Administrative Punishment Information in Market Supervision and Management, and Measures for the Supervision and Treatment of Contract Violations. Regulations such as Measures for the Administration of New Products of Measuring Instruments, Measures for the Administration of National Standards, Measures for the Administration of Enterprise Standardization and Measures for the Administration of Organic Product Certification were revised, to continuously promote the implementation of the strategy of strengthening the country by quality and improve the quality of products and services. In order to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, the Regulations on the Implementation of the Patent Law of the People's Republic of China (Draft for Review) was submitted to the State Council, and regulations such as Several Provisions on Regulating Patent Application Behavior were revised.

According to the requirements of the State Administration for Market Regulation, the legislative work in 2021 should aim at building a modern legal system of market supervision that adapts to the new development pattern, adhere to the problem-oriented and goal-oriented policies, strengthen legislation in key areas, strengthen overall coordination of legislation, speed up the legislative process, optimize legislative procedures, focus on improving the quality and efficiency of legislation, and build a solid foundation of the rule of law for the long-term development of market supervision.

List of Legislative Items of the State Administration for Market Regulation in 2021

Laws and Administrative Regulations

*Some of the contents are excerpted