Sino-Singapore Jingwei, October 31st (Dong Wenbo) is about to enter November, and a batch of new regulations will also be officially implemented. Electronic cigarettes are subject to consumption tax, individual industrial and commercial households must not be in arrears, and the new version of drug recall management measures will affect you and me. Let's live together.

【New national regulations】

Excise tax on e-cigarettes

　　The "Announcement on the Collection of Consumption Tax on Electronic Cigarettes" issued by the Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Customs, and the State Administration of Taxation will be implemented from November 1, 2022.

The announcement made it clear that e-cigarettes will be included in the scope of consumption tax collection, and e-cigarette sub-items will be added under the tobacco tax item.

Electronic cigarettes are subject to ad valorem rate-setting method to calculate and pay taxes. The tax rate for the production (import) link is 36%, and the tax rate for the wholesale link is 11%; the consumption tax on electronic cigarettes brought or delivered by individuals shall be levied in accordance with the relevant regulations of the State Council.

The accounts of individual industrial and commercial households shall not be in arrears

　　The State Council recently issued the Regulations on Promoting the Development of Individual Industrial and Commercial Households, which will come into force on November 1, 2022.

The regulations require that the government and its relevant departments shall not discriminate against individual industrial and commercial households when formulating relevant policies and measures; no unit or individual shall charge or apportion fees to individual industrial and commercial households, and shall not induce or force laborers to register as individual industrial and commercial households; Organs, enterprises and institutions shall not default on the accounts of individual industrial and commercial households in various forms.

The management of enterprise group financial companies is further standardized

　　From November 13, 2022, the "Administrative Measures for Financial Companies of Enterprise Groups" revised and issued by the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission will be officially implemented.

The measures clarify that shareholders, actual controllers and groups shall not interfere with the business operations of financial companies, and shall not assist member units in any way to obtain funds through affiliated transactions, and shall not conceal illegal affiliated transactions or conceal the true whereabouts of funds through affiliated transactions, or engage in illegal activities.

At the same time, finance companies shall not issue financial bonds, and shall not invest in financial institutions and enterprises, guide finance companies to reserve sufficient liquid assets, and strictly control the total amount of external business.

Three new items are added to the review of food production licenses

　　The General Rules for the Review of Food Production Licenses (2022 Edition) revised and issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation will come into force on November 1, 2022. The main changes include three "increases" and two "clarifications": increase the inspection content of the food safety traceability management system , Increase the inspection content of transportation and delivery management system, increase the inspection content of production equipment maintenance; clarify the inspection content of the procurement management system and the purchase inspection record system, the inspection management system and the factory inspection record system, and clarify the inspection of the implementation of the management system.

It stipulates that trial-produced food shall not be sold as food; if the applicant applies for a permit for the first time or applies for a change permit due to the addition of a food category, the inspection report of the trial-produced food shall be checked during the on-site inspection.

Five types of enterprises should be equipped with food safety directors

　　The "Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Enterprises Implementing the Main Responsibilities of Food Safety" will come into effect on November 1, 2022, requiring a sound corporate responsibility system. Five types of enterprises should be equipped with food safety directors: first, special food production enterprises; second, large and medium-sized food production enterprises The third is the headquarters of large and medium-sized catering service enterprises and chain catering enterprises; the fourth is the headquarters of large and medium-sized food sales enterprises and chain sales enterprises; Units with more than 1,000 people dining or serving meals.

Improve drug recall management

　　The newly revised "Measures for the Administration of Drug Recalls" will come into force on November 1, 2022. It improves the handling measures for recalled drugs, and clarifies that the labels and storage measures of recalled drugs should be clearly different from those of normal drugs to prevent errors and confusion; , should be destroyed under the supervision of the holder, the drug manufacturer, or the drug regulatory department of the people’s government at or above the county level or the notary agency where the recalled drug is stored; for those that can be eliminated by changing labels, revising and improving the instructions, and repackaging, etc. It can be properly dealt with before listing.

Implementation of electronic registration certificate for medical devices

　　The State Food and Drug Administration issued the "Announcement on the Full Implementation of the Electronic Registration Certificate for Medical Devices", which clarified that the scope of the issuance of the electronic medical device registration certificate this time is from November 1, 2022. Imported second and third class medical device registration certificate and registration change documents.

The electronic registration certificate for medical devices has the same legal effect as the paper registration certificate. The electronic registration certificate has functions such as instant delivery, SMS reminder, license authorization, code scanning query, online verification, and network-wide sharing.

【New local regulations】

Shanghai: Encourage foreign trade enterprises to rationally use shipping derivatives

　　Shanghai issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Stability and Quality Improvement of Foreign Trade in the City", which will come into force on November 1, 2022.

The opinions propose that foreign trade enterprises should be encouraged to rationally use shipping derivatives, manage the risk of freight rate fluctuations, support the listing of container freight index futures, and explore freight index futures options products such as dry bulk cargoes and oil tankers; encourage port units to establish incentive mechanisms to further reduce air freight. Container transfer, terminal loading and unloading, truck short barge and other expenses, support foreign trade enterprises "land to water" and "land to railway" and so on.

Hebei: TCM formula granules are not allowed to be sold outside medical institutions

　　The Hebei Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Online Purchasing and Medical Insurance Payment of Chinese Medicine Formula Granules", which will be implemented from November 1, 2022.

The notice clarifies that traditional Chinese medicine formula granules sold by medical institutions shall be purchased and traded through the centralized drug procurement platform of Hebei Province; they shall not be sold outside medical institutions.

Designated medical institutions purchase at the lowest online price and can add 15% to the sale.

Jiangsu: Psychotherapy programs included in medical insurance

　　The Jiangsu Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau issued a notice to include the "psychotherapy" project into the scope of medical insurance payment, and it will be implemented uniformly across the province from November 1, 2022.

The medical insurance payment category is adjusted to "B", and the medical insurance payment standards for "psychotherapy" projects in designated medical institutions that implement the third, second and first-class charging policies are 200 yuan/time, 180 yuan/time and 160 yuan/time, respectively. Second-rate.

Shandong: The method for identifying marginal families with minimum living allowances is clear

　　The "Measures for the Identification of Marginal Families with Minimum Living Security in Shandong Province" will be implemented from November 1, 2022, and will be valid until October 31, 2027.

Families at the edge of the minimum living allowance are determined by the applicant's application, the verification of family economic status information, and the comprehensive assessment of the family's living conditions; the monthly per capita income of family members living together is higher than the minimum living standard of the place where the application is accepted, and less than 1.5 times.