Certain Provisions of Jilin on Improving the Foreign Investment Environment Ⅴ

　Chapter Ⅴ Supervision and Inspection of the Work of the Relevant Departments

　　Artcile26. The provincial supervision-inspection group for improving the investment environments, which is set up under the leadership of the provincial leading group of the work of utilizing foreign investment, taken the lead by the provincial supervision department and joined by all the relevant departments, shall be responsible for supervising and inspecting the problems about the administrative enforcement of law, the managemental services of the departments of the management of foreign-investment enterprises of the people's governments at all levels; as for the discovered problems, it should construct to correct within a prescribed time limit. While it is necessary, the group should circulate the inspected situations and the exsiting problems; where the circumstances are abominable, and caused serious aftermath, the persons held directly responsibility and their competent personnel in charge should be investigated into the responsibilities according to law.

　　Article 27. The working staff of relevant departments having any of the following circumstances shall be transferred from the post concerning foreign affairs, their work units or the higher competent departments shall give them criticism, education or disciplinary sanctions; where the circumstances are serious, and a crime is constituted, the offender shall be investigated into criminal responsibilities by judicial organs; as for the representative cases, the news media should give the exposal:

　　（1）Those extorting money and goods from foreign-investment enterprises by the convenience of their work;

　　（2）Those failing to fulfil the noticed obligation according to said Article 8;

　　（3）Those putting off the time limit of handling the affairs concerning with foreign-investment enterprises without authorization and without the approval;

　　（4）Those failing to complete the examination, approval registration and other items within the stipulated time limit, and also failing to explain the reasons to foreign-investment enterprises; and

　　（5）Other behaviors of making things difficult for foreign-investment enterprises.

　　Chapter Ⅵ Supplementary Provisions

　　Article 28. Those compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and the overseas Chinese, who invest and open enterprises in this province, shall also apply to these Provisions.

　　Article 29. These Provisions shall become effective as of the date of December1, 2002.