The measures for price surveillance in anhui province were adopted on 20 march 2007 at the 51st standing meeting of the provincial people's government and are now published and implemented as of 1 may 2007。
Governor wang jinshan
March 27, 1997
Chapter i general provisions
In order to regulate price monitoring and inspection, to detect price violations in a timely manner and to protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations, article i establishes this approach in accordance with laws and regulations such as the price law of the people's republic of china and the regulations on administrative penalties for price offences of the state council, taking into account the actual situation in the province。
This second approach applies to price supervision and inspection activities within the province's administrative area。
The third price surveillance inspection should protect open, fair and legitimate market competition, maintain normal price order and correct price violations。
The price supervision inspection in the district area is carried out by the local people's government price administrative authority at the county level and above, and is carried out by the price supervision inspection body to which it belongs。
The departments of business, quality technical supervision, education, health, inspection and public security should, in accordance with their respective responsibilities, assist in the inspection of prices。
Article 5 entitles any unit or individual to report price violations. The price administrative authority shall give credit or reward to the unit or individual who has been successful in reporting the price violation。
Chapter ii price behaviour
Article 6 prices for goods and services are subject to market-regulated prices, which are set autonomously by the operator in accordance with price laws and regulations, in addition to government-directed or government-pricing prices, which are applied in accordance with the law。
Article 7 operator pricing should be based on the principles of fairness, legality and integrity。
Article 8 operators should enforce government-directed prices for goods and services, and government pricing, without the following violations:
(i) price-setting beyond the range of government-directed price fluctuations
(ii) higher or lower than government pricing
(iii) unauthorized setting of prices for goods or services falling within government-directed or government-pricing parameters
(iv) early or delayed implementation of government-directed prices, government pricing
(v) self-employed fee items or standard fees
(vi) continue to charge fees for charges that the government has expressly cancelled
(vii) refrain from implementing the preferential fee measures approved by the state council and its related departments and the provincial people's governments
(viii) documentary charges based on the establishment of illegal charges or the establishment of fees
(ix) charges that are not subject to publicity, scope and standard charges
(x) increased rates by disaggregating charges, repeating charges, expanding fees
(xi) disguised charges in the form of guarantees, mortgages, etc.
(xii) there is no legal basis for compelling consumers to accept designated services, purchase specified goods, or convert services such as counselling, training, information, testing, etc., which should be freely chosen by consumers, into mandatory services and fees
(xiii) charges for non-compliance with the required services
(xiv) failure to perform other government-directed price and government-pricing practices。
Article 9 operators shall carry out the prescribed price interventions, emergency measures and shall not:
(i) non-implementation of price increases or price increases filing systems
(ii) the margin of profit above the established margin margin
(iii) the price of non-compliance with the prescribed limit, the minimum protected price
(iv) non-implementation of centralized pricing authority measures
(v) failure to implement price freezes
(vi) failure to implement statutory price interventions, other actions of emergency measures。
Article 10 operators who buy, sell or provide services shall identify the price and shall not:
(i) prices are not indicated
(ii) not priced according to the required content and manner
(iii) the sale of goods in addition to the bid or the collection of unmarked charges
(iv) other violations of the specified price。
Article 11 operators shall, in accordance with the law, set prices that are subject to market regulation and shall not be guilty of:
(i) complicity in manipulating market prices to the detriment of the legitimate interests of other operators or consumers
(ii) disrupting the normal order of production and operations and undermining the interests of the state or the legitimate interests of other operators in order to crowd out competitors or monopolize markets, in addition to legally reducing prices for such commodities as living goods, seasonal goods and commodities
(iii) fabrication and dissemination of information on price increases that raise prices and contribute to high commodity prices
(iv) inducing consumers or other operators to enter into transactions with them, using false or misleading price instruments
(v) provision of the same goods or services, and price discrimination against other operators with equal terms of trade
(vi) acquisition, sale or provision of services, disguisedly higher or lower prices, by means of higher or lower rankings
(vii) making profits in violation of laws and regulations
(viii) other price offences prohibited by law, regulations and regulations。
Chapter iii supervision and inspection
Article 12, price monitoring, is primarily government surveillance and plays a full role in social monitoring and public opinion monitoring。
Article 13 should uphold the principle of combining regulation and services, promote price integrity, guide operators in establishing sound price management systems and regulate price behaviour。
Price monitoring is carried out by the price administrative authorities, which should adhere to the principles of prevention, education and punishment, and establish a system of prior notification and after-visiting。
Article 14 price administrative authorities should strengthen law enforcement and improve the rule of law and the quality of their operations。
Law enforcement officials of the price administration authorities should receive regular training in the rule of law and operations, undergo examinations, which are not qualified and do not engage in price monitoring。
The duties of the administrative authority for price monitoring under article 15 are:
(i) promotion of price laws, regulations, regulations
(ii) monitoring and inspection of price behaviour in accordance with the law
(iii) administrative penalties for price offences in accordance with the law
(iv) pricing behaviour of people's governments at the directed level and their departments
(v) organizing and directing price administrative authorities to carry out price supervision inspections
(vi) other duties conferred by laws, regulations and regulations。
When price monitoring is carried out by the administrative authority responsible for prices in article 16, the following powers may be exercised:
(i) interrogate the person or persons concerned and request them to provide supporting material and other information relating to price violations
(ii) to search for and reproduce books, documents, documents, electronic data, documents and other information relating to price violations and to check bank information relating to price violations; and, where necessary, to collect relevant evidentiary material through audio, video and photographic recordings
(iii) inspection of property related to price violations
(d) where evidence may be lost or subsequently difficult to obtain, it may be retained by registration in accordance with the law。
Article 17 is to be faithfully supplied with the books, documents, certificates, electronic data, documents and other information necessary for price monitoring inspections, and to respond to inquiries in good faith, not to refuse or obstruct inspections, not to conceal, transfer or destroy supporting material and not to provide false information. Other interested parties and probators shall, at the time of inspection or inquiry, give a true view of the situation and shall not make false statements。
Price administrative authorities and their law enforcement officials shall not use information or knowledge obtained under the law for any purpose other than conducting price supervision checks under the law and shall not disclose the trade secrets of the persons concerned。
When the price supervision inspection is carried out by the price administrative authority of article 18, the operator is entitled to suspend his business if he finds that the offence was committed in three circumstances:
(i) if the offence is of a complex or serious nature and a heavier penalty may be imposed if found
(ii) the business is not suspended and the offence will continue
(iii) without suspending the relevant business, which may affect the finding of a breach of the law, the adoption of other measures is not sufficient to ensure its detection。
Law enforcement officials of the administrative authorities for the price of article 19 should monitor inspections strictly in accordance with their duties and procedures。
Law enforcement officials of the price administrative authorities should be accompanied by more than two persons and present administrative enforcement documents to the person concerned on their own initiative。
The authorities responsible for the administration of prices under article 20 shall direct organizations such as consumer organizations, workers ' price monitoring organizations, residents ' committees, villagers ' committees and consumers to monitor price behaviour that is closely related to the lives and production of urban and rural residents。
The price administrative authority may employ supervisors from the organizations listed in the preceding paragraph, as well as from consumers, to monitor price behaviour。
Article 21 information, publications, radio, television, etc. Should strengthen the dissemination of price laws and regulations, disclose price violations and monitor price behaviour。
The authorities responsible for the administration of prices under article 22 shall establish a system for reporting price violations and shall publish the telephone, address or e-mail box for reporting such violations。
When a complaint of a price violation is received by the price administrative authority, it shall be investigated in accordance with the law and the result shall be communicated to the person reporting the offence within three days of the conclusion of the case; if it does not fall within the scope of the obligation, it shall be promptly referred to the authority having jurisdiction to investigate and deal with the matter and to the person reporting。
