China News Service, February 20. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate held an online interview on the 20th. Hu Weilie, Director of the Eighth Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, pointed out that the online economy such as "Internet celebrity endorsements" and "live delivery of goods" continues to be hot, but the industry Disorders of good and bad and lack of supervision have caused many consumers to complain.
The Supreme People’s Procurator regards online sales of food takeaway packaging materials that do not comply with the regulations, and “Internet celebrity endorsements”, “live delivery of goods” and other food safety issues as the key areas of special supervision activities, severely investigate and deal with relevant violations in accordance with the law, and effectively protect consumers Legal rights.
Hu Weilie pointed out that with the development of the network economy, the online economy such as "Internet celebrity endorsements" and "live delivery of goods" continues to be popular, but the various chaos of the industry, such as uneven good and bad, lack of supervision, have caused many consumers to complain and sell packaging materials. Issues affecting food safety are also widely concerned by the society. These food safety issues that accompany the development of new business formats pose a potential risk of infringement on the life and health rights of consumers.
Hu Weilie stated that in order to better respond to the new expectations and new needs of the people, the Supreme People’s Court has taken the online sales of food takeaway packaging materials that do not meet the requirements, and “Internet celebrity endorsements”, “live delivery of goods” and other food safety issues as special supervision activities The key areas of supervision are to guide procuratorates at all levels to fully perform public interest litigation procuratorial duties in accordance with the law, urge administrative agencies to strengthen supervision, strictly investigate and deal with relevant violations in accordance with law, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.
Hu Wei cited the following examples: The Procuratorate of Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province and the market supervision and management department coordinated to manage the problems in online food packaging and online information publicity and achieved good results.
In handling cases, the procuratorial organs pay full attention to the characteristics of the new business, pay attention to discovering and promoting the correction of regulatory loopholes, guide industry autonomy and self-discipline, and strive to achieve the unification of the three effects.
The Beijing Railway Transport Procuratorate issued procuratorial recommendations to some users on live streaming and short video platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou, selling "three noes" food, false propaganda, and incomplete information display through methods such as "live streaming with goods" and "video recommendation". Supervise the Beijing Haidian District Market Supervision Administration to increase the supervision of live broadcast e-commerce activities on the platform. At the same time, together with the Market Supervision Administration, it will jointly guide the leading enterprises in the short video industry in Beijing to jointly formulate and sign the "Web Live and Short Video Marketing Platform Self-discipline Convention" 》, and consider the overall healthy development of public welfare protection and online sales as emerging industries.