Four Stages in the Development of Inspection Agency

First stage: the national inspection agency is responsible for all commodity inspection.

In 1984, the State Council issued the "People's Republic of China Import and Export Commodity Inspection Ordinance", it provides that the State Administration of Commodity unified supervision and management of the national competent authority of import and export inspection agency work around the Commodity Inspection Bureau and its branches were responsible for the supervision and management of the region into export commodity inspection work; requiring all business shall be implemented by the national inspection agencies, and also specially provisioned that foreign inspection bodies shall not be established in China.

Second stage: open the commodity inspection and testing to the private capital

In 1989, the People's Republic of China Import and Export Commodity Inspection Law was issued, which cleared that the purpose of the commodity inspection work is to ensure that the import and export product quality and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign trade parties concerned over the commodity inspection authorities responsible for the implementation of the mandatory inspection of prescribed goods detection. Make sure the legality of variety of the testing agencies, cancel the terms that it is not allowed to establish the foreign inspection company in China, and also provides the State Administration for Commodity Inspection and the commodity inspection authorities need to pass the examination, approved qualified domestic and international inspection and testing institutions entrust Import and Export Commodity Inspection and testing work, the market began to be opened to private capital commodity inspection and testing.

The third stage: defining the nature of administrative law enforcement the mandatory inspection work and civil conduct inspection and testing business In 2002, the People's Republic of China Import and Export Commodity Inspection Act was further clarified that the goods in the catalog of Import and Export Commodity Inspection included in the national regulations, the implementation of the inspection and testing by the commodity inspection authorities; inspection agencies licensed by the State Administration for Commodity Inspection, can accept foreign trade relations or foreign inspection agencies entrusted, handle the import and export commodity inspection and appraisal business. Further clarify the inspection qualification of civil conduct engaged in import and export commodity inspection and appraisal activities, clearly define the mandatory inspection of the nature of administrative law enforcement work and civil conduct inspection business and lay the legal basis for the internal and external opening of the market for the inspection.

Fourth stage: allow wholly foreign-owned testing organizations to enter China

After December 11, 2005, according to its WTO accession commitments, the Chinese government allowed foreign-owned to enter China's service trade market. With strong capital strength and rich experience in the operation, the foreign testing organizations were full access to testing market, becoming the important part of the testing market. Foreign testing organization and private testing organizations constitute the subject of an independent third-party testing, and the state testing organizations occupy government mandatory testing market with its traditional monopoly advantage. The government mandatory testing market concludes ministries mandatory certification of quality inspection, commodity inspection, environmental protection, public health and other certification requirements and mandatory certification of all levels of government (including provincial, municipal, county, town, etc.) various certification requirements.

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