China News Service, March 11. According to the WeChat public account of the State Administration for Market Regulation on the 11th, in 2023, market regulatory authorities across the country investigated and handled a total of 1.4062 million illegal cases of various types, an increase of 10.6% over the previous year; the amount of fines and confiscations was 10.535 billion yuan. , dropped by 22%. The number of cases handled and the amount of fines and confiscations showed an increase and a decrease for the first time since 2018. Important results have been achieved in coordinating the intensity and temperature of law enforcement.
The State Administration for Market Regulation pointed out that strengthening the protection of consumer rights and interests, creating a safe consumption environment, maintaining good market order, and continuously optimizing the business environment are of great significance to ensuring the country's economic development.
Market regulatory authorities across the country have comprehensively promoted strict, standardized, fair and civilized law enforcement, strengthened law enforcement in key areas, continued to carry out "Iron Fist" operations, and deepened a series of special actions to stabilize market confidence, continuously enhance consumer confidence, and effectively promote the release of high-quality development momentum.
"Iron Fist" attacks to protect people's livelihood and encourage consumers to dare to spend
Continuously improve the "Iron Fist" working mechanism, build the "Iron Fist" brand of law enforcement for the people, and rectify outstanding problems around the masses.
Strictly crack down on eight types of illegal activities in accordance with the law, including illegal addition of food, illegal activities related to the elderly, using unfair format terms to infringe on consumer rights, and counterfeiting well-known brands. Market supervision departments at all levels across the country will investigate and handle 565,000 illegal cases in the field of people's livelihood in 2023, involving goods Valued at 2.81 billion yuan, 1,034 typical cases were exposed to the public.
Listing and supervising the handling of major and important cases has formed a strong deterrent. In 2023, 128 key cases including illegal addition of food, production and sale of substandard liquefied petroleum gas, counterfeit agricultural inputs and fertilizers and well-known brands, and infringement of the exclusive rights of registered trademarks of others will be listed and supervised, and important cases will be transferred to others. 79 clues.
To crack down on food safety violations, 544,000 food cases were investigated and handled in 2023, with a fine and confiscation amount of 2.63 billion yuan.
Focus on law enforcement and stable development so that consumers can consume
Carry out product quality law enforcement, highlight key areas, key industries, and key products, and intensify crackdowns on quality violations. In 2023, 56,700 illegal cases will be investigated and handled, involving goods worth 677 million yuan; promote gas safety "stoves, pipes, valves, and gases" Special law enforcement, 6,101 cases of gas appliances and 237 cases of adding dimethyl ether were filed and investigated; chaos in the household consumer market was rectified, and 4,406 cases of household quality violations were investigated and handled, involving goods worth 27.3341 million yuan; special law enforcement in the field of inspection and testing was carried out, and cases were filed and investigated There were 1,269 illegal cases involving inspection and testing institutions, the qualifications of 51 certification institutions were revoked, and 227 institutions were given administrative warnings and ordered to make rectifications.
Deepen the protection of intellectual property rights, formulate the "Opinions on Strengthening the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the New Era", and severely crack down on illegal activities in the field of trademark and patents such as counterfeiting well-known brands, malicious applications for trademark registration, and illegal agency. In 2023, 33,100 intellectual property cases were investigated and the amount of fines and confiscations was 48,900. 100 million yuan; launched a nationwide unified destruction operation of infringing, counterfeit and shoddy goods, and concentrated the destruction of more than 4,700 tons of goods involved with a value of 830 million yuan.
Comprehensively completed the three-year special campaign of "banning fishing and cracking down on illegal fishing in the Yangtze River", inspecting 26 million aquatic products production enterprises, small processing workshops, farmers' markets, supermarkets, and catering establishments, investigating and handling 11,000 illegal cases of various types, and monitoring e-commerce The platform (website) received 7.9675 million visits, carried out administrative guidance 116,400 times, and urged the removal, deletion, and blocking of 36,100 illegal transaction information.
Illegal sales channels have been basically blocked, illegal activities have been effectively curbed, and the long-term supervision and law enforcement mechanism has been increasingly improved.
Special actions to optimize the environment make consumers willing to spend
Comprehensive control of "fuel-stealing" cheating by tankers. In 2023, 829 illegal cases of tanker cheating were investigated and dealt with, involving a total amount of 1.087 billion yuan, and 42 cases were transferred to judicial authorities; research and revision of the national standards for "Motor Vehicle Fuel Tankers" and "Fuel Tanker Models" The comprehensive management system has been constantly improved, including the "Type Evaluation Outline", "Measurement Verification Procedures for Fuel Dispensers", and "Measures for the Management of New Measuring Instruments Products".
Promote the management of excessive packaging of tea, ordered the correction of 3,884 cases of excessive packaging, imposed 422 administrative penalties, and exposed 756 typical cases; formulated law enforcement guidelines for investigating and handling excessive packaging, and revised the mandatory standards for restricting excessive packaging of commodities, etc. to promote regulatory law enforcement Standards are unified.
In 2024, the market regulatory authorities will continue to focus on "protecting people's livelihood", further promote the "Iron Fist" operation, and highlight the themes of "protecting safety" and "anti-fraud".
In terms of "safety protection", focusing on gas stoves, electric bicycles, children's toys, etc. as key products, we will focus on investigating and punishing illegal activities such as passing off fake products as genuine, substandard products as good products, and substandard products as qualified products; claiming functions such as analgesia and sleeping Focus on food, severely crack down on the illegal addition of drugs and their derivatives; severely investigate and punish the illegal production and use of small boilers; focus on investigating and punishing the issuance of untrue or false inspection tests in product quality and food safety inspection and testing activities involving personal and property safety Reporting and other illegal activities.
In terms of "anti-fraud", we will focus on investigating and punishing illegal cases such as meter cheating at gas pumps, using unfair format terms to infringe on consumer rights, trademark infringement, counterfeiting or fraudulent use of geographical indications, price fraud, and publishing false and illegal advertisements.
Change law enforcement concepts, optimize law enforcement methods, and firmly shoulder responsibilities and missions, so that the people can feel more gain, happiness, and security in market supervision and law enforcement.