Measures for Implementing the National Reporting and Evaluation System for Printing Administrative Law Enforcement

Article 1: These Measures are formulated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Regulations on the Administration of Printing Industry, the Regulations on the Administration of Audio-Visual Products and the Measures for the Administration of Reproduction, with a view to implementing the administrative law enforcement responsibility for printing and reproduction, strengthening routine law enforcement supervision over the printing and reproduction industry, establishing and improving a long-term management mechanism, and building a strong printing and reproduction country.

Article 2: For the purposes of these Measures, administrative law enforcement for printing and reproduction refers to the administrative acts of the press and publication administrative departments and the comprehensive administrative law enforcement departments for the cultural market at all levels, within the scope of their duties, to supervise and inspect printing or reproduction business activities and impose administrative penalties.

Article 3: The General Administration of Press and Publication shall be responsible for guiding the nationwide administrative law enforcement work for printing and reproduction, and shall establish and implement a nationwide reporting and evaluation system for administrative law enforcement for printing and reproduction.

Article 4: The reporting and evaluation system for administrative law enforcement for printing and reproduction refers to the system under which the press and publication administrative departments and the comprehensive administrative law enforcement departments for the cultural market of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government are responsible for submitting to the General Administration of Press and Publication the work situation of administrative law enforcement for printing and reproduction within their respective administrative areas, and the General Administration of Press and Publication is responsible for evaluating the conduct of administrative law enforcement work for printing and reproduction in all localities.

Article 5: Among these, the press and publication administrative departments and the comprehensive administrative law enforcement departments for the cultural market of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall collect and submit the situation of routine administrative inspection of printing and reproduction and the imposition of administrative penalties for printing and reproduction once every two months; for major printing and reproduction cases, they shall submit the basic information within two working days after the case is filed.

Article 6: When submitting the situation of routine administrative inspection of printing and reproduction and the imposition of administrative penalties for printing and reproduction, the press and publication administrative departments and the comprehensive administrative law enforcement departments for the cultural market of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, in accordance with their respective duties, check against all items in the Summary Table of the Work Situation of Administrative Inspection and Administrative Penalties for Printing and Reproduction, carefully verify and summarize the number of inspectors, inspection methods, inspection contents, administrative handling and administrative penalties, etc., clearly fill in the relevant data, and submit the summary table for the previous two months within the first working day of each odd-numbered month.

Article 7: Among these, if there is no data for the items to be filled in within the scope of their own duties, zero shall be filled in; items outside the scope of their own duties need not be filled in.

Article 8: When submitting major printing and reproduction cases, the press and publication administrative departments and the comprehensive administrative law enforcement departments for the cultural market of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall fill in the Major Printing and Reproduction Case Report Form (see Appendix 2), and must submit the report form within two working days after the case is filed.

Article 9: For the purposes of these Measures, major printing and reproduction cases refer to cases that cause serious harm to the state and society, involve serious circumstances of illegal business operations, involve huge illegal business amounts, or involve a relatively large number of regions or enterprises. A case shall be classified as a major printing and reproduction case if it has any of the following circumstances:

(1) cases handled upon the instructions of relevant leading comrades of the Party Central Committee, the State Council, etc.;

(2) cases that violate Article 3 of the Regulations on the Administration of Printing Industry and Article 3 of the Regulations on the Administration of Audio-Visual Products, and may cause serious social impact or seriously harm national interests;

(3) cases in which the printing and reproduction business license may be revoked according to law;

(4) cases involving an illegal business amount of 30,000 yuan or more;

(5) cases involving three or more provinces or five or more printing and reproduction enterprises;

(6) cases in which law enforcement is obstructed by violence or coercion, resulting in casualties among law enforcement personnel or other adverse social impact;

(7) other cases that seriously disrupt the order of administration of the printing and reproduction market.

Article 10: The General Administration of Press and Publication shall track and guide the conduct of administrative inspection of printing and reproduction and the imposition of administrative penalties by the press and publication administrative departments and the comprehensive administrative law enforcement departments for the cultural market of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and shall be responsible for coordinating relevant departments in supervising the handling of key major printing and reproduction cases.

Article 11: On the basis of the situation of administrative inspection of printing and reproduction and the imposition of administrative penalties submitted by the press and publication administrative departments and the comprehensive administrative law enforcement departments for the cultural market of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and on the basis of verification and supervision, the General Administration of Press and Publication shall evaluate the administrative law enforcement work for printing and reproduction in all localities.

Article 12: The evaluation of administrative law enforcement work for printing and reproduction shall follow the principles of fairness, transparency and effectiveness, and its main contents include:

(1) the situation of supervision and inspection of printing and reproduction, including the frequency, methods, contents and focus of inspections, etc.;

(2) the situation of administrative penalties for printing and reproduction, including the number of penalty cases and the situations of fines, suspension of business for rectification, and revocation of licenses, etc.;

(3) the situation of the law enforcement teams for printing and reproduction, including the staffing, funding implementation, training and assessment of the law enforcement teams, etc.;

(4) The market order of printing and reproduction, including the market order in key regions as well as publication printing and read-only optical disc reproduction;

(5) The law enforcement reporting on printing and reproduction, including the "Summary Table of Administrative Inspection and Administrative Penalty Work in Printing and Reproduction" and the "Report Form of Major Cases in Printing and Reproduction," as well as feedback on other law enforcement matters.

Article 10 The evaluation of administrative law enforcement work in printing and reproduction shall be conducted in three steps: local self-evaluation, examination and verification, and public announcement.

Local self-evaluation means that the administrative departments of press and publication of each province, autonomous region and municipality directly under the Central Government, together with the comprehensive administrative law enforcement departments of the cultural market, shall, on the basis of summing up the administrative law enforcement work in printing and reproduction of the current year, submit a summary evaluation report.

Examination and verification means that the General Administration of Press and Publication shall review the summary evaluation reports submitted by the administrative departments of press and publication of each province, autonomous region and municipality directly under the Central Government and the comprehensive administrative law enforcement departments of the cultural market, take into comprehensive account the opinions of associations and other industry organizations, and determine the evaluation results.

Public announcement means that the General Administration of Press and Publication shall publish the evaluation results of the administrative law enforcement work in printing and reproduction after a 7-working-day public notice period.

Article 11 The evaluation results of the administrative law enforcement work in printing and reproduction are divided into three categories: [ ], qualified and unqualified.

Where the "Summary Table of Administrative Inspection and Administrative Penalty Work in Printing and Reproduction" and the "Report Form of Major Cases in Printing and Reproduction," as well as the summary evaluation report on the administrative law enforcement work in printing and reproduction of the current year, are not submitted as required by these Measures, the evaluation result shall be unqualified.

Article 12 The evaluation of the administrative law enforcement work in printing and reproduction shall be conducted once a year, and the evaluation results shall in principle be published before the end of the current year. The evaluation results shall also be copied to the people's governments of each province, autonomous region and municipality directly under the Central Government and to the publicity departments of the Party committees.

Article 13 The General Administration of Press and Publication shall commend the units determined as [ ] in the evaluation of the administrative law enforcement work in printing and reproduction, as well as other units and individuals with outstanding achievements in the administrative law enforcement work in printing and reproduction.

Article 14 Where there is serious falsification or major disciplinary violations in the implementation of the reporting and evaluation system for administrative law enforcement in printing and reproduction, a notice of criticism shall be given, and the evaluation result shall be unqualified.

(Source: General Administration of Press and Publication)

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