Recently, the national office of information on the internet published the bookWeb sectionAdministrative penaltiesThe provision for the application of discretionary benchmarks (hereinafter referred to as " provisions " ) has been in force since 1 august 2025. The relevant officials of the national office of information on the internet (oni) have indicated that the regulations are designed to regulate the administrative penalties of the internet service and to protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations。
The regulation makes it clear that the basis of discretion for administrative penalties refers to the specific scale and criteria for the enforcement of laws, regulations, regulations, principles or flexible powers of enforcement, the margin of discretion, etc., in the application of administrative penalties by the internet services, in accordance with factors such as the fact, nature, circumstances, degree of social harm, subjective fault of the person involved, etc., in the light of the discretionary nature of the offences involved. It should be made clear that the internet service applies the criteria of discretionary administrative penalties and should be guided by the principles of uniformity of the rule of law, fairness and justice, proportionality of penalties and the combination of punishment and education. (webcom china)
