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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

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 processed in accordance with the criteria laid down in the original Decision 2001/405/EC or the new Decision 2009/568/EC. After that, however, all products applying must

The printing and reproduction industry accounts for a large share of the press and publication industry and is one of the five "key tasks for industry development" set out in the Guiding Opinions on Further Promoting the Development of the Press and Publication Industry (hereinafter referred to as the Guiding Opinions); the requirements the Guiding Opinions sets for the development of the printing and reproduction industry have made the direction of that development clearer and the methods more distinct. Wang Yanbin, Director of the Printing and Distribution Management Department of the General Administration of Press and Publication, recently on promoting structural adjustment of the printing industry

In order to integrate internal printing resources, optimize resource allocation, strengthen the integrated operation and management of publication printing and the procurement of raw and auxiliary materials at Time Publishing and Media Co., Ltd., strengthen unified supervision over publication printing quality and anti-piracy management, and maximize the company's overall benefits, and in line with the principle of "standardized operation, mutual support, mutual benefit and win-win cooperation," the company has decided to select, on a competitive basis from among publication printing enterprises throughout the province, a number of book and periodical printing enterprises to serve as the company's designated printing

Zong Qinghou, Chairman and General Manager of Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co., Ltd., offers some opinions and suggestions on implementing electronic supervision codes for prepackaged food products. On December 4, 2007, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine posted on its website the "Notice on Implementing Product Quality Electronic Supervision in Accordance with the Special Provisions of the State Council on Strengthening the Supervision and Administration of the Safety of Food and Other Products" (Guo Zhi Jian Zhi Lian [2007] No. 582). In that notice, "the State Quality Inspection

On January 15, 2010, among the 293 marks recognized by the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce in trademark administration cases, the printing-industry-related brands that received the “” designation include: “Shengli and Device” of Hebei Haihe Shengli Printing Machinery Group Co., Ltd. was recognized as “Class 7: Machinery and apparatus for the printing industry”; “Youheng and Device” of Tianjin Changrong Printing Equipment Co., Ltd. was recognized as “Class 7: die-cutting machines, foil stamping machines, folder gluers”; Tianjin