Regulations on the implementation of the People's Republic of China Standardization Law.

These Regulations require that standards be worked out and implemented in a planned way for specified categories of technical requirements, including safety and hygiene in the process of production, storage and transport; environmental protection; and the variety, specification, quality, grade, examination, packing, storage, transport, production, and management of farm products (including forestry, animal husbandry, fishery products, seeds, seedlings, breeding stock and breeding poultry). Differing levels of responsibility for working out, implementing and supervising standardization are exercised by a national department under the State Council, related administrative departments under the State Council departments under provincial, autonomous regional and municipal people's governments, and relevent administrative departments in provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. State and trade standards are divided into mandatory and recommended standards. Standards for human and animal medicines, food hygiene, discharge of pollutants, quality of the environment, and safety and hygiene in the production, storage, transport and use of products are mandatory standards. The Act prohibits production, sale, and import of products which are below the mandatory standards. The Act provides a role for trade associations, scientific and technological research institutes and academic organizations in working out standard and recommends that standards be reviewed every five years.
The Act entitles state bodies, mass organizations, enterprises, institutions and every citizen to inform against or expose offences against mandatory standards. The Act permits the department in charge of standardization and other relevant administrative departments to take administrative action against offenders. Penalties include cease and desist orders, confiscation, supervised product destruction, fines, or, in the case of continuing offence, punishment approved by a people's court. A reconsideration application process is provided for penalized offenders. The Act requires the judicial organ to investigate and apportion criminal responsibility for specified mistakes by State Functionaries.