Decision of the State Council on Abolishing and Revising Some Administrative Laws and Regulations
Decision of the State Council on Abolishing and Revising Some Administrative Laws and Regulations
Decision of the State Council on Abolishing and Revising Some Administrative Laws and Regulations
Order of the State Council of the State Council of the People's Republic of China No. 638
July 18, 2013
The Decision of the State Council on Abolishing and Revising Some Administrative Laws and Regulations, which was adopted at the 10th executive meeting of the State Council on May 31, 2013, is hereby promulgated and shall come into effect on the date of promulgation.
Premier Li Keqiang
Decision of the State Council on Abolishing and Revising Some Administrative Laws and Regulations
In order to legally push forward the reform of the administrative examination and approval system and the transformation of governmental functions, further stimulate the active creativity of the market and the society, fully give play to the advantages of the local governments in being closer to the grass roots, and promote and ensure the government administration to transform from pre-examination and approval to in-process and afterwards supervision, the State Council sorts out some related administrative regulations. After the sorting, it is hereby decided that,
I. Article 1 The Administrative Measures for Coal Production Licenses promulgated by the State Council on December 20, 1994 shall be abolished.
II. Article 2 Some clauses of 25 administrative laws and regulations shall be revised.
This Decision shall come into effect on the date of promulgation.
Appendix: Administrative Laws and Regulations Decided by the State Council to Be Revised
I. The Article 7 of the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Sino-Foreign Cooperation in the Exploration of Offshore Petroleum Resources shall be revised as: "With respect to the sea, areas and blocks for Sino-foreign cooperation of petroleum exploitation, China National Offshore Oil Corporation shall determine, by bidding, the foreign enterprises to conduct cooperation in exploitation of marine petroleum resources and enter into petroleum exploitation cooperation contracts or other cooperation contracts therewith and report contract-related information to the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China".
II. The Article 23 of the Regulations for the Administration of Affairs Concerning Ex-Perimental Animals shall be revised as: "When importing from abroad experimental animals as breeder seeds, units dealing with experimental animals shall register with the unit for seed conservation, cultivation and quality control as designated by the science and technology administrative authority of the province, autonomous region and municipality directly under the Central Government of the place where the unit is located".
Paragraph 1 of Article 24 shall be revised as: "The export of experimental animals shall be subject to examination and approval by the science and technology administrative authority of the province, autonomous region and municipality directly under the Central Government of the place where the unit dealing with experimental animals is located. The export procedures can be handled only after such approval has been obtained".
III. The Article 4 of the Administrative Provisions on the Ground Receiving Facilities for Satellite Television and Broadcasting shall be deleted.
Article 5 shall be adjusted to be Article 4 and be revised as: "Production enterprises licensed by the competent authority of industrial product production license shall sell their ground satellite receiving facilities to legally established installation service institutions. No any other entity or individual may sell said facilities".
Article 11 shall be adjusted to be Article 10 and Paragraph 1 thereof shall be revised as: "Where, in violation of these Provisions, anyone produces ground satellite receiving facilities without permission or production enterprises fail to sell said facilities to legally established installation service institutions in accordance with these Provisions, the competent authority of industrial product production license shall order the same to cease producing and selling said facilities".
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