1, the revised "Express Market Management Measures" March 1:
The Ministry of Transportation announced a new revised "Express Market Management Measures", since March 1, 2024 shall come into force. The revised Measures focus on strengthening the regulation of express delivery service behavior, strengthening the market order management requirements, strict express waybill and code number management requirements and other seven aspects of adjustment. Which provides that the protection of express security, to prevent the loss of express mail, damage, short pieces, shall not throw, step on express mail; without the consent of the user shall not confirm receipt of express mail on behalf of the user shall not be unauthorized delivery of express mail to the intelligent express mail box, express mail service stations and other express mail terminal service facilities.
2, the latest test standards for drunk driving March 1 onwards: the national standard "blood, urine test for ethanol, methanol, n-propanol, acetone, isopropanol and n-butanol" (GB/T42430-2023), in March 1, 2024 onwards. The new test standard to test the content of ethanol in the blood as an example: drinking and driving for 0.20mg/mL, the driver's blood ethanol content greater than or equal to 0.80mg/mL belongs to drunk driving. The linear range of the test is 0.1mg/mL~3mg/mL. The national standard can be applied to five alcohols and acetone poisoning, death test, medical emergency test, scientific research and other more extensive scenarios.
3, concerning the production and operation of special food, food safety management personnel assessment of new regulations came into force in March: the General Administration of Market Supervision issued a "corporate food safety management personnel supervision and sampling assessment guidelines" and "corporate food safety management personnel supervision and sampling assessment syllabus", since March 1, 2024 shall come into force. Further clarify the special food production, operation of the main person in charge of the enterprise to master the special food production, operation of food safety laws and regulations and standards related to the important provisions of the implementation of the main corporate responsibility system, as well as based on risk prevention and control of the dynamic management mechanism and other relevant requirements. Special food, including health food, special medical use formula food and infant formula food, related to "an old man, a small" and other key groups of people's health and life safety.
4, China and Thailand visa waiver effective from March: China and Thailand signed a visa waiver agreement in Bangkok, Thailand. The agreement will take effect from March 1, 2024 onwards. After the agreement came into force, the Chinese side holding official ordinary passport, ordinary passport holders and Thai side holding ordinary passport holders, visa-free entry into each other's country for a single stay of not more than 30 days (every 180 days cumulative stay of not more than 90 days). Those who enter the other country to engage in activities requiring prior authorization, such as work, study, news reporting, settlement, etc., and those who intend to stay in the other country for more than 30 days, must apply for the corresponding visas before entering the other country.
5, the new revised invoice management methods of implementation rules, March 1 came into force: the State Administration of Taxation announced "on the revision of the Chinese people's *** and the State invoice management methods of the implementation of the rules of the decision" (State Administration of Taxation Decree No. 56), since March 1, 2024 shall come into force. The main contents of the modification include: first, clarifying the basic management provisions of electronic invoices, emphasizing that "electronic invoices have the same legal effect as paper invoices, and no unit or individual shall refuse to accept them"; second, adding the provisions on invoice data security management, making it clear that "in the invoice inspection, the tax authorities can extract, retrieve, access, and manage the invoice data". The second is to add provisions on invoice data security management, clarifying that "tax authorities can extract, retrieve, inspect and copy invoice data during invoice inspection"; the third is to refine the circumstances under which invoices are found to be illegal; the fourth is to connect with existing laws and regulations; and the fifth is to improve the provisions on invoice printing, application and issuance.
6, "Chinese people's *** and the State Archives Law Enforcement Regulations" came into force on March 1: "Chinese people's *** and the State Archives Law Enforcement Regulations" since March 1, 2024 shall come into force. The Regulations focus on the following: First, improve the archival work mechanism. Strengthen the responsibilities of the people's governments at and above the county level, and add new provisions on the archival duties of the people's governments of townships. Second, standardize the management of archive collection. Clear filing responsibility and transfer of responsibility, requiring archives to collect files should comply with the relevant provisions of the state, taking into account the rarity of the archives, the importance of the content. Third, improve the archive storage system. Fourth, refining the measures for opening and utilization. It stipulates that the state archives should establish a coordinated mechanism for the open audit of archives, and requires the competent archives departments at or above the county level to strengthen the coordination of the open audit of archives.
7, "the state council on amending the" ozone depleting substances regulations "decision" March 1: "the state council on amending the" ozone depleting substances regulations "decision" since March 1, 2024 shall come into force. The Regulation focuses on issues such as connecting with international conventions, improving management measures for ozone-depleting substances, and strengthening legal responsibilities. It defines ozone-depleting substances as "chemicals included in China's List of Controlled Ozone-Depleting Substances", and no longer retains the qualifying expression "having a destructive effect on the ozone layer", so as to incorporate hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) into the list of controlled substances. It is stipulated that units producing, using or incidentally producing large quantities of ozone-depleting substances shall install automatic monitoring equipment, network with the monitoring equipment of the competent ecological and environmental authorities, and ensure the normal operation of the monitoring equipment, so as to ensure the truthfulness and accuracy of the monitoring data.
8, "production safety accident fines and penalties" March 1: the Ministry of Emergency Management issued "production safety accident fines and penalties", since March 1, 2024 shall come into force. The provisions of the main content of the revision and improvement: First, improve the accident fine penalty benchmarks to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties involved in general accidents, major accidents, major accidents and especially major accidents, the amount of the fine is reasonably divided into three orders; Second, in conjunction with the practice of regulating according to law on the identification of serious violations of the law, a clear closure, destruction of directly related to the monitoring of production safety, alarms, protection, life-saving equipment and so on. Six can be in accordance with the fine amount of more than two times five times the amount of the production and management units responsible for imposing fines; third is adjusted according to the provisions of the law to clarify the amount of the fine.
9, the State Council State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the central production safety implementation of classification supervision and management, effective March 1: the State Council State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission issued the "supervision and management of production safety in the central enterprises", since March 1, 2024 shall come into force. The Measures specify that central enterprises are divided into three categories based on the main business and the degree of risk of production safety approved by the SASAC of the State Council: the main business is engaged in coal and non-coal mining enterprises, building construction and other enterprises for the first category; the main business is engaged in the electronics, pharmaceuticals (except for chemical pharmaceuticals) and other enterprises for the second category; in addition to the above first and second category of enterprises other than the enterprise for the third category. The first category of central enterprises, mining-related central enterprise group headquarters should be equipped with a full-time production safety director, belonging to the high risk of safety enterprises should be fully implemented full-time production safety director system. The Measures propose that central enterprises should strengthen the safety management of contractors, strict access to qualification management, contractors and labor dispatch personnel into the unified enterprise safety management system.