Rules of Shanghai for Administration of Export Processing Zones Ⅱ

Article 10 （Environmental Protection）

　　The environmental protection work in the EPZ shall be carried out in accordance with the relevant laws, rules and regulations of the State and the relevant regulations of this Municipality.

　　The AC shall assist the administrative departments in charge of environmental protection in effectively carrying out work relating to environmental protection, and shall oversee the performance of enterprises in abiding by the laws, rules and regulations and relevant provisions relating to environmental protection and in strictly keeping the mandatory, effluent standards.

　　Article 11 （Administration of Import/Export and the Processing Trade）

　　The AC shall, as entrusted by the competent municipal foreign economics and trade administrative department, engage in examination-and-approval work relating to the import of the equipment, materials and components for productive use, to the export of finished products and to the scope of expanding processing trade of the enterprises in the EPZ.

　　Article 12 （Administration of Employment and Labor Security）

　　The AC shall assist the administrative department in charge of labor security of the host district/county in effectively carrying out the work of administering employment and labor protection in the EPZ.

　　Article 13 （Customs Clearance Service）

　　The Customs and the inspection and quarantine departments shall, in accordance with the relevant rules and regulations of the State, exercise supervision and administration over the EPZ, and adopt expeditious and facilitative measures for Customs clearance in order to provide efficient services for enterprises.

　　Article 14 （Simplification of Exit Formalities）

　　For persons working in the EPZ who have need to frequently make business trips abroad or outside the mainland, the practice of"Once approved after examination, year-long validity for multiple trips abroad"may be adopted for the examination and approval procedure and the practice of issuing multiple exit/entry visas to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region for a set period of time may be followed.

　　Article 15 （Publicizing Information about Government Administration）

　　The AC shall publicize in the work place the legal provisions, contents, conditions, procedures, time limit, a catalogue of all the required materials to be submitted, and a completed sample application form relating to the examination and approval matters in the EPZ.

　　In case an applicant requests from the AC an explication or further explanation of the contents that are on display, the AC shall try to provide accurate and reliable information.

　　Article 16 （Supervision and Inspection of Processing Zones on Relevant Administrative Matters）

　　Except for matters involving national security, public security, and environmental protection, all relevant municipal administrative departments shall solicit the AC's opinions when the performance of their administrative duties involves the EPZ. The AC shall be responsible for making an integrated schedule for all activities of giving guidance, making inspections and exercising supervision inside the EPZ by organizations from outside of it.

　　The AC shall support and assist relevant administrative departments in performing their administrative and law-enforcement duties in accordance with legal procedures, and the relevant administrative departments shall brief the AC on relevant matters after the completion of their law-enforcement inspections.

　　Article 17 （Responsibilities of the AC and Entrusting Organizations）

　　The AC shall be responsible in a comprehensive way for all administrative matters relating to examination and approval that have been entrusted to it and that it has undertaken to handle, except for such responsibilities as administrative litigation, administrative reconsideration, etc. that, according to law, shall be undertaken by the administrative department that has entrusted the AC with administrative examination and approval.

　　An administrative department that has entrusted the AC with administrative examination and approval shall exercise supervision over and give guidance to the AC with regard to its handling of matters thereto related. The AC shall accept the supervision and guidance of the entrusting administrative department and report regularly to it about the progress of the handling of matters relating to administrative examination and approval entrusted to it.

　　In case the AC violates the relevant regulations in carrying out administrative examination-and-approval work, the administrative department that has entrusted it with administrative examination and approval shall have the power to order a rectification, or countermand its decision according to law, and may, when necessary, report to the Municipal People's Government.

　　Article 18 （Division of Labor with Relation to Functions）

　　The administrative organizations in the AC shall be clearly divided between those with distinctive functions of administration and those with distinctive functions for development and construction, and specific departments shall be designated to work full time to handle the EPZ's administrative matters.

　　Article 19 （Effective Date）

　　These Procedures shall become effective on November 1, 2004.The"Interim Procedures on the Administration of the Shanghai Songjiang Export Processing Zone"promulgated by the Municipal People's Government on October 19, 2000 and the"Interim Procedures on the Administration of the Customs Supervision Sector in Shanghai Jinqiao Export Processing Zone"promulgated by the Municipal People's Government on March 27,2002 shall be repealed at the same time