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1 2015/SOM3/SCSC/FSCF/PTIN/RT/015 Economy Experiences - China: General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Submitted by: China Towards a Future of Prevention and Partnership: Roundtable on Effective Industry / Regulator Cooperation Cebu, Philippines August 2015

2 2015 Workshop of the APEC Food Safety Cooperation Forum (FSCF) Partnership Training Institute Network (PTIN) Towards a Future of Prevention and Partnership: Roundtable on Effective Industry / Regulator Cooperation YANG Binbin, AQSIQ, China August 2015 Cebu, Republic of the Philippines 1. Social Governance 2. Regulation development 3. Dialogue platform 4. Communication 5. Capacity building 1

3 1. Social Governance Food safety: the issue concerned by all the society Food Safety Law: Stakeholders: Company Government Government: rule maker, supervision Company:bear the major responsibility Industry Society Society: education, communication, monitoring Industry(Industry Associations): Selfgovernance Food safety governing regime: State Council Food safety Committee Food Safety office o MOA(Ministry of Agriculture) NHFPC(Natioanl Health and Family Planning Commettee) CFDA(China Food and Drug Administration) AQSIQ(General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China) Primary Agricultural Products Risk Analysis, National Standard Food Processing, Distribution, Catering, Coordination Food Import and Export 2

4 General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) AQSIQ is a ministerial-level administration and directly reports to the State Council of China. In charge of national quality, metrology, entry-exit commodity inspection, entry-exit health quarantine, entry-exit animal and plant quarantine, import-export food safety, certification and accreditation, standardization. AQSIQ SAC(Standardization Administration of China)... Department of Inspection and Quarantine Clearance CNCA(National Agency of Certification and Accreditation) (Duties including: registration of exporting and foreign processors ) Bureau of Import and Export Food Safety (DG: Dr. LIN Wei) 35 Provincial Local CIQs (China Inspection and Quarantine) 31 Provincial Quality and Technical Surveillance Bureaus (For domestic produced and sold commodities except food) 299 Branches and 398 CIQ Offices,452 labs,more than 30,000 staffs. (Not only food, but all regulated commodities, anmial & plants, and human. About 7000 staffs related to food) 3

5 2. Regulation development A full involvement of industry: both Domesticly & Globally; Procedure of developing regulation of AQSIQ: (1) Necessarity and feasibility: Discussion and on-the-spot investigation on the necessarity and feasibility of the Rugulation. 2. Regulation development * A full involvement of industry: both Domesticly & Globally; Procedure of developing regulation of AQSIQ: (2) Seeking comments: Comments within and outside of AQSIQ should be gathered, If necessary, meeting, hearing, publicizing the daft and so on. Comments should be dealt with seriously. Soliciting comments from other Ministries of State Council, if necessary. Notification to WTO, if the regulation will affect international trade. Comments from WTO members should be disposed properly. 4

6 2. Regulation development A full involvement of industry: both Domesticly & Globally; Procedure of developing regulation of AQSIQ: (3) Legality review: The Department of Legal Affairs in AQSIQ: to review whether the draft complies with Laws. (4) Approved: by Minster of AQSIQ. (5) Publicize: the final regulation --> The Rule of Supervision of Imp & Exp Food Safety 2. Regulation development A full involvement of industry: both Domesticly & Globally; Procedure of developing regulation of other Ministries: Similiar to AQSIQ Procedure of developing laws: By Congress: Stricter, longer, more cautious. 5

7 3. Dialogue platform APEC FSCF and its PTIN * AQSIQ: the Co-Chair of FSCF The APEC High-Level Regulator Industry Dialogue on Food Safety (Sep 12, 2014, Beijing) 3. Dialogue platform APEC FSCF and its PTIN * AQSIQ: the Co-Chair of FSCF The APEC High-Level Regulator Industry Dialogue on Food Safety (Sep 12, 2014, Beijing) 6

8 3. Dialogue platform Boao Asian Forum-Food Safety Subforum Topic: "Global co-governance" 4. Communication Inter-act with public (including industry, comsumers...) 7

9 Public interactivities Online Q&A Hotline for problem reporting 5. Communication Online interview Inter-act with public (including industry, comsumers...) Online survey soliciting Comments on draft regulations Frequently asked questions 4. Communication Media communication 8

10 5. Capacity building Trainings 5. Capacity building Regulator-Industry workshop 9

11 Thank you! 10

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