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Tissue paper must meet the relevant criteria to obtain the ecolabel. In July 2009, the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) published the new ecolabel requirements for tissue paper, namely Decision 2009/568/EC. Before 4 January 2010, ecolabel applications for tissue paper could be handled in accordance with the criteria set out in the original Decision 2001/405/EC or in the new Decision 2009/568/EC. But after that, all products applying must

According to the Announcement on the Publication of National Standards of the People's Republic of China No. 13 of 2009 (General No. 153), the national standard "Shrink Wrapping Machine" (GB/T 24709-2009) was issued on November 15, 2009 and will officially take effect on July 1, 2010. The standard was organized and formulated by the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Packaging Machinery. The standard specifies the terms and definitions, models, types and basic parameters, requirements, test

According to the China Dyestuff Industry Association, the national standard GB9685-2008, Hygiene Standard for the Use of Additives in Food Containers and Packaging Materials, drafted by the Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety under the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention with the participation of the Shanghai Food and Drug Supervision Institute and the Chemical Manufacturers Association, and issued by the Ministry of Health and the Standardization Administration of China, came into force on June 1, 2009. This standard replaces GB9685-2003, Food Containers

According to the State Food and Drug Administration, the Registration Division and the Market Division of the Beijing Municipal Food and Drug Administration, and the Beijing Pharmaceutical Packaging Materials Inspection Institute, printed packaging materials — that is, printed products (package inserts and labels affixed to the outside of pharmaceuticals) — are still subject to the printing standards stipulated in the Provisions for the Administration of Pharmaceutical Package Inserts and Labels (Order No. 24 of the State Food and Drug Administration) promulgated on March 15, 2006. Related printing standards policies: State Food and Drug Administration Order No

1. Unified corporate income tax law for all forms of ownership The Corporate Income Tax Law and the Regulations on the Implementation of the Corporate Income Tax Law have been in effect since January 1, 2008. Industry insiders note that the new tax law will bring seven benefits to the printing and equipment manufacturing industries: a unified 25% income tax rate for domestic and foreign-invested enterprises, deduction of reasonable salary and wage expenditures incurred by enterprises, a unified and higher deduction ratio for advertising and business promotion expenses, and qualifying small low-profit

Supplementary Interpretations by the Professional Committee on the General Rules and Detailed Rules for Food Packaging Materials No. | Subject | Clause No. | Relevant Clause | Content | Interpretation (Revision) 1. "General Rules" — Application materials submitted by enterprises, Clause 3.1.2, supplement: a copy of the enterprise's organization code certificate and the filed enterprise standard. 2. 3.1.2.2 Copy of the business license — where a food production enterprise applies for a production license for food-use plastic packaging containers, tools and other products, and the business scope of its business license covers only the products it produces

Industrial revitalization plan: a guiding development planning document issued by the State Council for industries of strategic significance in response to the economic crisis. Among the eleven industrial revitalization plans the State Council has rolled out to date, none is specifically targeted at the printing industry, and the reason is simple: although people working in printing like to invoke the industry's total output value to demonstrate its importance, objectively speaking, printing is merely a subordinate service industry, and the development of the printing industry is far from

12 Private Equity Firms Step into the Media Industry. The General Administration of Press and Publication recently issued the Guiding Opinions on Further Promoting the Development of the Press and Publication Industry (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions). It sets out the key tasks for the next stage of development, including emerging publishing industries such as digital publishing, and covers: developing traditional paper-based publishing industries such as books, newspapers and periodicals; developing strategic emerging non-paper publishing industries such as digital publishing; developing the animation and gaming publishing industry; developing printing,

The national standard for Shrink Packaging Machines (gbt24709-2009) was issued on November 15, 2009 and officially implemented as of July 1, 2010. The standard was organized and formulated by the National Packaging Machinery Standardization Technical Committee. It specifies the terminology and definitions, model designations, types and basic parameters, requirements, test methods, inspection rules, and marking, packaging, transport and storage requirements for shrink packaging machines. The standard applies to machines using heat sources other than flame heating

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently adopted a resolution approving the establishment of ISO/TC122/SC4, the Packaging and Environment Technical Committee, with China and Sweden jointly undertaking the joint secretariat. The China Export Commodity Packaging Research Institute will undertake the work of the joint secretariat and simultaneously serve as the domestic counterpart unit for ISO/TC122/SC4. This marks China's participation in and undertaking of the work of the packaging standardization technical committee, thereby expanding China's role in the field of environmentally friendly packaging standardization