State Council Scraps 25 Administrative Approval Items and Delegates Six Ones

The State Council has recently issued the Decision on Cancelling and Delegating a Batch of Administrative Approval Items (the "Decision").

According to the Decision, the State Council abolishes 25 administrative approval items and delegates six administrative approval items to lower-level authorities. Among others, the Decision states that among the 25 cancelled administrative approval items are "approval for overall plans for developing petroleum and natural gas (including coalbed methane) with foreign parties", "approval for projects constructing transmission network (including broadcast network) arteries in China", "the approval and issue of registers of seagoing vessels" and "pre-approval of proposed names". Also, the Decision notes that another six administrative approval items, including "the issue of transport business permits for passenger vessels (including ro-ro passenger vessels and passenger-cargo vessels) business and shipping of dangerous bulk liquid cargo between the mainland and Hong Kong/Macao", "the approval and issue of licenses for security guards overseeing facilities at ports" and "the issue of operating permits for transporting passengers on inter-provincial and inter-city roads and on roads linking regions adjacent to county-level administrative regions", will be delegated.



(Source: http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/2019-03/06/content_5371253.htm)

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