Order of the Ministry of Commerce of People’s Republic of China
No. 16 The Interim Measures concerning the Oversea Commercial Complaint Services for Chinese Enterprises, which has been deliberated and August 16, 2006 Interim Measures concerning the Oversea Commercial Complaint Services for Chinese Enterprises Article 1 With a view to safeguarding and promoting the fair and justifiable oversea commercial activities of Chinese enterprises and maintaining Article 2 The Oversea Commercial Complaint Service Center for Chinese Enterprises of the Ministry of Commerce (hereinafter referred to as the The Complaint Service Center shall be provided with a legal person qualification, and assume independent liabilities for its acts. Article 3 The “oversea commercial complaint services for Chinese enterprises” as mentioned in the present Measures refer to the services, under Article 4 The service claimant shall, following the principles of faithfulness, free will and legality and in accordance with the present Measures, Chapter II Service Claimants and Service Items Article 5 The “service claimants” as mentioned in the present Measures shall include: (1) legal persons, other organizations or individuals that engage in foreign trade in accordance with the Foreign Trade Law of the People’s (2) Chinese investors engaging in oversea investment according to law. Article 6 The scope of oversea commercial complaint services to Chinese enterprises shall include: (1) import and export of goods; (2) import and export of technologies; (3) international service trade; (4) intellectual property related to foreign trade; (5) foreign labor cooperation; (6) foreign project contracting; (7) oversea investment; and (8) other oversea commercial activities. The oversea commercial complaint services to Chinese enterprises may not include the matters under the jurisdiction of diplomatic Chapter III Complaint Service Center Article 7 The service items and main responsibilities of the Complaint Service Center shall include: (1) providing policy information services within its power so as to reduce the risks that legitimate rights and interests of domestic (2) providing consulting services aiming at common civil and commercial legal disputes; (3) accepting the complaints aiming at unfair policies, measures or market barriers of foreign governments or organizations, and then (4) examining, registering, sorting out, preliminarily analyzing and processing the service requests that meet the prescribed procedures (5) submitting the service requests it has accepted to the relevant party for verification and processing, and conducting follow-up inquiry, (6) feeding back the relevant proceeds or results to the service claimants within the time limit as prescribed in the present Measures; (7) analyzing and sorting out the conditions on service requests, and regularly promulgating the analysis reports; (8) reporting important sensitive cases or general problems to the relevant departments of the government, and bringing forward suggestions; (9) providing legal assistance to the relevant departments of the government; (10) establishing and administrating the database of specially invited experts and legal consultants; (11) transacting other matters related to the oversea commercial complaint services to Chinese enterprises upon the authorization of the (12) undertaking other work directly related to the disposal of service requests. Article 8 The Complaint Service Center shall establish an emergency treatment mechanism for important events, and incorporate it into the emergency The “emergency” as mentioned in the present Measures refers to the events that have incurred serious damages and are of broad coverage Article 9 The functionaries of the Complaint Service Center shall be familiar with the legal system on foreign economy and trade and the rules Article 10 The Complaint Service Center and its functionaries shall keep confidential of the business secrets of the service claimants they Chapter IV Submission of Service Requests Article 11 The service claimant may forward relevant service requests to the Complaint Service Center through the following means: (1) entering the website of 12335.mofcom.gov.cn; (2) dialing the hot line of the Complaint Service Center by 12335; (3) sending faxes by 12335; (4) mailing letters; and (5) visits and talks face to face. Article 12 To request for providing policy information services, a service claimant shall submit the following materials: (1) Materials explaining the basic information on the service claimant If the service claimant is an individual, the name, the name and number of identification certificate, domicile, zip code, contact If the service claimant is a legal person or an organization, the name, code, domicile, zip code, legal representative (or main principal), (2) The policy information items that are clearly requested to be submitted; and (3) Other materials as required by the Complaint Service Center for providing policy information services. Article 13 To request for providing consulting services for common civil and commercial legal disputes, a service claimant shall submit the (1) Materials explaining the basic information on the service claimant If the service claimant is an individual, the name, the name and number of identification certificate, domicile, zip code, and contact If the service claimant is a legal person or an organization, the name, code, domicile, zip code, legal representative (or main principal), (2) Case summary, including the brief information on all the parties concerned, the country (or region), cause of action, subject of (3) Relevant certification materials; (4) Matters for which consultancy is clearly requested; and (5) Other materials as required by the Complaint Service Center for providing consulting services. Article 14 To complain about the unfair policies, measures or market barriers of any foreign government or organization, a service claimant (1) Materials explaining the basic information on the service claimant If the service claimant is an individual, the name, the name and number of identification certificate, domicile, zip code, and contact If the service claimant is a legal person or an organization, the name, code, domicile, zip code, legal representative (or main principal), (2) Basic information on the party against whom the complaint is made, as well as the name, domicile, zip code, contact person and contact (3) Policies, measures or market barriers being complained and relevant certification materials; (4) Facts (time, place, course, degree, etc.) that the legitimate rights and interests of the complainant are damaged or illegally infringed (5) Clear and concrete claims; and (6) Other materials as required by the Complaint Service Center for providing consulting services. The service claimant shall indicate whether or not it allows the department of the government to use its true name or the relevant Article 15 The materials a service claimant submits shall be written in Chinese. Chapter V Disposal of Service Requests Article 16 After the Complaint Service Center receives a service request, it shall examine it within 10 working days, and respectively process (1) If the service request meets the conditions for acceptance, the Complaint Service Center shall accept it and send out a notice on (2) If the service request does not meet the conditions for acceptance, the Complaint Service Center shall send out a notice on refusal (3) If the materials need to be supplemented or improved, the Complaint Service Center shall inform the service claimant to do that. Article 17 The requests that the Complaint Service Center may not accept shall include: (1) where the subject qualification of the service claimant does not meet Article 5 of the present Measures; (2) where the request is not within the scope of complaint services as prescribed in Article 6 of the present Measures; (3) where there is no clear service request item; (4) where the service claimant can not provide the materials as prescribed in Items (2) and (3) of Article 13 or Items (3) and (4) of (5) where the service request is brought forward anonymously; (6) where the service request has been or is being accepted by the Complaint Service Center; (7) where the service claimant does not provide any new material, but brings forward another request for the matter that has been disposed (8) where the service request shall be accepted by the Complaint Center for Foreign-funded Enterprises; (9) where the service request shall be accepted by the Complaint Center for Laborers Assigned by China to oversea; (10) where the court or arbitral institution within the territory of China has accepted the service request or has rendered a ruling on (11) other service requests that do not comply with the relevant laws or administrative regulations. Article 18 As to a request for providing policy information services, the Complaint Service Center shall give a reply within 10 working days Article 19 As to a request for providing consulting services for common civil and commercial legal disputes, the Complaint Service Center shall Article 20 As to a complaint on unfair policies, measures or market barriers of any foreign government or organization, the Complaint Service Article 21 After the Complaint Service Center solicits the consent of the service claimant, it may forward the complaint consulting contents Article 22 Under any of the following circumstances, the service request shall be regarded as having been terminated: (1) It has been disposed according to Articles 18, 19 and 20; (2) It is found upon verification that the service request does not comply with the facts; (3) The service claimant does not offer coordination and refuses to provide authentic information; (4) The service claimant applies for revoking the request; and (5) Other circumstances under which the request shall be regarded as having been terminated. After a complaint is terminated, the Complaint Service Center shall timely make registration of the settlement. Chapter VI Information Management, Statistic Submission and Issuance Article 23 The Complaint Service Center shall analyze and sort out the data on service requests, and issue analysis reports on the website or Article 24 The Complaint Service Center shall make registration in light of the prescribed format, try to use formatted documents for accepting Article 25 The relevant materials on service requests as accepted by the Complaint Service Center shall be classified and numbered by schedule, Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions Article 26 The power to interpret the present Measures shall remain with the Ministry of Commerce. Article 27 The present Measures shall come into force as of the day of its promulgation. |
Ministry of Commerce
2006-08-16