Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cotton Quality
Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cotton Quality
Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cotton Quality
Order of the State Council of the People's Republic of China No. 314
August 3, 2001
The Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cotton Quality, which was adopted at the 43rd executive meeting of the State Council on July 26, 2001, is released hereby and shall take effect as of the date of promulgation.
Premier Zhu Rongji
Appendix: Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cotton Quality
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated for the purposes of strengthening supervision and administration of cotton quality, ensuring the order of cotton market and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of all parties in the cotton trade.
Article 2 Cotton business operators (including cotton purchasers, processors, sellers and warehouse operators, the same below) who engage in cotton business activities and cotton quality supervision organizations which exercise the cotton quality supervision and administration must comply with these Regulations.
Article 3 Cotton business operators who engage in such cotton business activities as purchase, processing, sale or storage shall obtain approval for their respective business qualifications according to the relevant provisions of the State.
Cotton business operators shall establish and perfect their internal cotton quality management system and strictly implement the post-based quality specifications, quality responsibilities and relevant assessment methods.
Article 4 The quality supervision, inspection and quarantine department of the State Council shall take full charge of the cotton quality supervision work throughout the country, and its subordinate unit, the China fiber inspection institution, shall be responsible to organize the implementation.
Quality supervision departments of people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be responsible for the cotton quality supervision work within their respective administrative areas. Where specialized fiber inspection institutions have been established, they shall exercise the cotton quality supervision within the areas under their jurisdiction. Where specialized fiber inspection institutions have not been established, the quality supervision departments shall exercise the supervision of cotton quality within the areas under their jurisdiction (when the specialized fiber inspection institution and the local quality supervision department are used concurrently, they shall be collectively referred to as the cotton quality supervision organization).
Article 5 Local people's governments at various levels and their staff members may not shelter or connive at illegal cotton quality acts within their respective areas or obstruct or interfere with cotton quality supervision organizations which, according to law, investigate into and deal with the acts of infringing the provisions of these Regulations in cotton purchase, processing, sale and storage.
Article 6 All units and individuals shall be entitled to report illegal cotton quality acts.
Chapter II Cotton Quality Obligations
Article 7 Cotton business operators who engage in cotton purchase shall establish and perfect their respective cotton quality inspection and acceptance system and have the quality grading standards in kind and necessary equipment and tools for the cotton quality inspection.
Cotton business operators who purchase cotton shall identify the class, grade and quantity of the cotton they purchased according to national standards and technical specifications after they remove heterogeneous fibers and other harmful substances therefrom. If the moisture of the cotton they purchased exceeds the level specified by the State, they shall make such technical treatments as sunning and stoving in order to assure the cotton quality.
Cotton business operators shall stockpile the purchased cotton by classes and grades.
Article 8 Cotton business operators who process cotton must meet the following requirements:
1. to clean up and remove heterogeneous fibers and other harmful substances from the cotton to be processed according to national standards;
2. to process cotton by grades according to national standards and to bale and mark the cotton they processed, and to guarantee that the marking shall be consistent with the cotton quality; and
3. to stockpile the processed cotton by bales, lots and batches according to national standards.
Cotton business operators who process cotton may not use lap rollers, cotton gins, baling machinery and other cotton processing equipment that are expressly prohibited by the State.
Article 9 Cotton business operators who sell cotton must meet the following requirements:
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