Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) drafted the Measures for Management of Major Breach of Law and Dishonesty Blacklist (Revised Draft for Comments) and released it for public consultation until August 10, 2019.

The key revisions include: 1) Expand the applicable targets: expanding the targets included in the Major Breach of Law and Dishonesty Blacklist from companies to companies, individual businesses, other organizations, natural persons who hold specific positions in dishonest subjects and are directly liable for major breach of law and dishonesty acts, and natural persons who directly participate in market operation; 2) Expand the applicable situations: forming uniform standards for applicable situations provided by the SAMR’s various business lines, the State Food and Drug Administration and the National Intellectual Property Administration, refining and integrating identical or similar situations, and deleting situations which clearly do not conform to the inclusion principles of the Major Breach of Law and Dishonesty Blacklist; 3) Adjust and manage duty assignment: having market supervision departments at various levels manage the Major Breach of Law and Dishonesty Blacklist in the areas within their own jurisdictions, in accordance with the general principle of “management goes to those with jurisdiction”; 4) Improve the inclusion and exclusion procedure; 5) Strengthen the punishment for dishonesty; and 6) Improve the credit repair.

Source: Ministry of Justice