China News Service, January 30th. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage recently issued the "Notice on Strengthening Administrative Law Enforcement in the Cultural Relics Market", pointing out that it is necessary to strictly implement administrative law enforcement responsibilities and effectively crack down on illegal cultural relics business activities.
The notice pointed out that administrative law enforcement in the cultural relics market is an effective means to protect the safety of national cultural relics and curb the illegal circulation of cultural relics, and it is also an important guarantee for maintaining the healthy and orderly development of the cultural relics market.
The cultural market comprehensive law enforcement team uniformly performs administrative law enforcement duties in the cultural relics market, and is managed by the relevant cultural and tourism administrative departments. The cultural relics administrative department guides and supervises the cultural market comprehensive law enforcement team to carry out administrative law enforcement work in the cultural relics market within the scope of their duties.
The notice requires that the comprehensive law enforcement team of the cultural market exercise "administrative penalties for buying and selling cultural relics prohibited by the state or transferring, leasing, and pledging cultural relics prohibited from leaving the country to foreigners" in accordance with the law.
In accordance with the scope of "cultural relics prohibited from buying and selling" determined in the "Administrative Measures for Cultural Relics Auction" and the scope of "cultural relics prohibited from leaving the country" determined in the "Cultural Relics Exit Examination Standard", focus on law enforcement matters, strictly implement administrative law enforcement responsibilities, and effectively crack down on illegal cultural relics business activities .
The notice clarifies that the objects of administrative law enforcement in the cultural relics market are entities engaged in the management of cultural relics, mainly covering cultural relics stores, cultural relics auction companies, antique flea markets and their merchants, Internet cultural relics management platforms and their merchants, etc.
The comprehensive law enforcement teams of cultural markets at all levels must not only strengthen the supervision of various offline entities, but also strengthen the supervision of cultural relics business activities through the Internet to ensure full coverage of law enforcement targets.
According to the notice, comprehensive law enforcement teams at all levels of the cultural market should formulate law enforcement inspection plans, establish scientific and effective systems for daily inspections, random spot inspections, special inspections, and case source monitoring, handle complaints and reports from the masses through channels such as letters and visits, and online public opinion in a timely manner, and discover cases in a timely manner. clues, and carry out law enforcement work in accordance with the law.
Administrative departments of cultural relics at all levels should strengthen source supervision, deploy law enforcement work in conjunction with cultural and tourism administrative departments, promptly assign and transfer case clues to the comprehensive law enforcement team in the cultural market, and do a good job in specific law enforcement business guidance.
The notice emphasizes that cultural relics administrative departments at all levels and comprehensive law enforcement teams in the cultural market should establish and improve information exchange and sharing mechanisms for administrative licensing, daily supervision, law enforcement inspections, and administrative penalties in the field of cultural relics market through information platforms and other means. Under the framework of the business conference system, regular joint information research and judgment will be carried out, and the connection between pre-approval and interim and post-event supervision and law enforcement will be done well, so as to realize the whole-process supervision of the cultural relics market.
The cultural relics confiscated by the comprehensive law enforcement team of the cultural market according to law shall be handed over to the cultural relics administrative department free of charge after the case is closed, and shall be collected by the state-owned cultural relics collection unit designated by the cultural relics administrative department.