Officials will strictly investigate illegal charges related to enterprises and focus on administrative examination and approval intermediary services.

BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua) according to the website of the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission today issued a notice on carrying out the inspection of charges related to enterprises, requiring the key inspection of charges in areas such as administrative examination and approval intermediary services, industry associations and chambers of commerce, etc, seriously investigate and deal with all kinds of illegal charges.

The “notice” pointed out that in accordance with the requirements of “combining clean-up with norms, combining clean-up with investigation and punishment, combining clean-up with burden reduction” and “double random, one public, focus on the inspection of charges in the fields of administrative examination and approval intermediary services, industry associations and chambers of commerce, seriously investigate and deal with all kinds of illegal and illegal charges, and urge relevant departments and units to strengthen rectification from the source, actively build a long-term mechanism for charging and supervising enterprises. Through efforts, the charging behavior of enterprises involved is obviously standardized, the charging order continues to improve, and the burden on enterprises is effectively reduced.

国家发展和改革委员会(资料图)中新网记者 金硕 摄The National Development and Reform Commission (information map) was taken by Jin Shuo, a reporter from zhongxin.com.
The notice points out that the scope of this inspection is the charges in the fields of administrative examination and approval intermediary services, industry associations and chambers of commerce, import and export links, finance, e-government platforms, construction, etc. The inspection time limit is the charging act since January 1, 2016. If the illegal act is in a continuous or continuous state, it can be traced back to the date when the illegal act occurred.

(1) fees for intermediary services in administrative examination and approval. There is no legal basis for key investigation and investigation, and intermediary services for administrative examination and approval such as technical examination, demonstration, evaluation, inspection, testing, verification, identification, certification, consultation and testing are set up and charged; Use administrative functions, monopoly status designated services, compulsory services and charges or only charges and no services; Illegal transfer existing or canceled administrative approval items into intermediary services and charges; implement government pricing management and charge for pre-intermediary services that have been explicitly canceled for administrative examination and approval; violation of the notice of the General Office of the State Council on clearing and regulating intermediary services for administrative examination and approval of the departments of the State Council (No. 31 [2015] of the State Council) as well as the specific measures about clearing and regulating intermediary services in the local area, “the technical service activities entrusted by the examination and approval department during the examination and approval process must be selected through competition, all service fees shall be paid by the examination and approval department and included in the department budget”, and the fees of technical service activities entrusted by the examination and approval department during the examination and approval process shall be passed on to the applicant for such acts.

(2) fees charged by industry associations and chambers of commerce. Focus on investigating and dealing with projects and standards that fail to publicize the membership fees and other charges of industry associations and chambers of commerce through the portal website; Industry associations and chambers of commerce rely on acting government functions or use administrative resources to set up charging projects without authorization, raise the charging standard; Industry associations and chambers of commerce force enterprises to join the conference and collect membership fees, force enterprises to pay to participate in various conferences, trainings, exhibitions, assessment and appraisal, commendation, overseas investigation and forced sponsorship donation, ordering publications and other behaviors.

(3) import and export fees. Focus on investigating and dealing with independent projects in customs, ports, entry-exit inspection and quarantine and other fields, and customize standard charges; Continue to collect fees that have been explicitly canceled; Use administrative power or monopoly position to designate services, compulsory service and charge and only charge no service; Do not implement preferential charging policies such as suspension, exemption, half collection, and reduction of standards; Bind legal duties with operating service items and other acts.

Focus on investigating and dealing with violations of the “price law”, “Port charging and billing measures” and other provisions, and not implementing government guidance prices and government pricing; Violating the provisions on clearly marked prices; Implementing acts such as improper prices.

(4) fees charged by financial institutions. Plus-sized preach vigorously and urge commercial banks to strengthen internal charge management in accordance with the law enforcement guide on charge behavior of commercial banks. Focus on investigating and binding compulsory charges with loans; Only charge and no service; Over-range and over-standard charges; Transfer cost charges; Do not implement government guidance price and government pricing; mandatory handling of acceptance bills and raising financing costs by “Crossing the Bridge”, focusing on small and micro enterprises, “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”, “double innovation” and other fields.

(5) E-government platform charges. Focus on investigating and violating the provisions of the notice of the Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on regulating the charge management of e-government platforms (Cai comprehensive letter [2011] No. 14), administrative organs use e-government platform to engage in commercial business activities and charge fees; When introducing third-party electronic authentication services, enterprises or individuals are required to purchase third-party electronic authentication services in a mandatory or disguised form, illegal participation in the operation of electronic authentication services or collection of fees; Collect operating service fees from enterprises and institutions in the name of technical maintenance fees, service fees, electronic media costs, etc.

(Vi) fees for construction areas. There are many charging subjects, long chains and complicated links in the construction field. It is necessary to carefully sort out and comprehensively inspect all aspects of the industries such as housing construction, planning, land and so on, from declaration and approval to completion and acceptance, the charging situation of enterprises involved in the whole process. Strictly implement the notice of the General Office of the State Council on clearing and standardizing the deposit in the field of engineering construction (Guo Ban Fa [2016] No. 49), the notice of the National Development and Reform Commission on further liberalizing the price of professional services for construction projects (No. 299 [2015] of the development and reform price) and other relevant provisions, focus on investigating and dealing with projects that continue to collect canceled security deposit or illegally establish new security deposit; Use administrative power to designate services and force fees; Only charge for no service or less service; the administrative organ entrusts its own responsibilities to subordinate units or third-party institutions, transferring costs, compulsory or disguised compulsory charges, etc.

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zhongxin.com, May 9 according to the website of the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission today issued a notice on carrying out the inspection of fees related to enterprises, requiring intermediary services for administrative examination and approval, industry associations, chambers of commerce and other areas of charge key inspection, seriously investigate and deal with each

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