Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 22 (Reporters Luo Sha, Yang Weihan) The 17th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress will be held in Beijing from April 26 to 29. Many draft laws will be submitted to the meeting for consideration. Closely related to your health.
According to Yue Zhongming, spokesperson of the Legislative Affairs Commission and director of the Legislative Planning Office of the Standing Committee of the National People ’s Congress, the second review draft of the draft biosafety law to be submitted for review provides for the strengthening of various The prevention and control of biological safety risks is aimed at improving the prevention and control of major new infectious diseases, animal and plant epidemics in response to the exposure of new coronary pneumonia.
In addition, the second review of the draft biosafety law also provides for strengthening the safety management of biotechnology research and development and application, strengthening the supervision of the entire process of pathogenic microbial experiment activities, strengthening the safety management and supervision of human genetic resources and biological resources, highlighting the building of biosafety capabilities, and improving legal liability.
According to Yue Zhongming, the third review of the revised draft of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes will be reviewed at this meeting. The main revisions include the effective strengthening of the management of medical waste, especially the management of medical waste in the process of responding to major infectious diseases, and further improve the prevention and control of environmental pollution by domestic waste Measures and regulations related to the prevention and control of environmental pollution by construction waste, and increase the control of excessive packaging and plastic pollution.
Regarding the revised draft of the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law that will be submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for the first time, Yue Zhongming introduced that the first draft is to strengthen animal epidemic prevention responsibilities. Clarify the main responsibility of the production operator, the supervision responsibility of the industry department and the territorial management responsibility of the local government. The second is to improve the animal epidemic prevention management system. The animal health and epidemic prevention safety retrospective cooperation mechanism is stipulated, and the systems for animal and product transportation supervision, harmless treatment, epidemic disease regional management and supervision are revised and improved. The third is to stipulate strict approval and quarantine inspection of non-edible utilization of wild animals in response to the epidemic situation, establish an animal epidemic risk assessment system, and include the animal professional trading market in the scope of animal epidemic prevention conditions. The fourth is to strengthen support and safeguard measures, including the purification of key animal diseases, the harmless treatment of diseased animal products, etc., into the scope of government public finances, the development of livestock and poultry breeding insurance, and increased support for technological innovation and research and development.
Regarding whether the meeting of the Standing Committee will be held by a combination of on-site attendance and online video attendance, Yue Zhongming said that on February 24, the sixteenth meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress will organize the presence of the Beijing Standing Committee It was the first time in the history of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress that the online video attendance of some members, including members of the Beijing Foreign Affairs Committee and other members, was held.
Yue Zhongming introduced that this innovative approach under special circumstances effectively implemented the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, and also ensured the normal and effective operation of the permanent organs of the highest state power organs. It was realistic, pragmatic and efficient, and was in accordance with the principles and spirit of the Constitutional Law . The 17th meeting of the 13th National People's Congress Standing Committee will resolutely implement the relevant requirements of the normalization of epidemic prevention and control work, according to the actual situation and needs, do a good job in the relevant work of the Standing Committee meeting to ensure the effective operation of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the implementation of constitutional laws The prescribed authority.
"The current laws have played an important role in preventing and controlling epidemics and maintaining public health and safety, and also exposed some shortcomings and deficiencies." Yue Zhongming said that in accordance with the deployment requirements of the NPC Standing Committee, the Legal Work Committee of the NPC Standing Committee is seriously demonstrating On the basis of fully listening to the opinions of the relevant parties, in conjunction with the legislative plan of the 13th NPC Standing Committee and the annual legislative work plan, we have studied and drafted a work plan to strengthen the public health rule of law and guarantee legislation. This is the first time that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has formulated a special legislative amendment work plan, which will be implemented after approval in accordance with the procedures, to coordinate arrangements and guide the promotion of relevant legislative amendment work.