Measures for Administration of Alcohol Circulation

Article 8 The competent commercial department should handle record registration formalities within 5 working days at receipt of above materials submitted by alcohol managers, and affix a seal on the Registration Form.

Article 9 The competent commercial department should record and keep record registration information and materials of the alcohol manager completely and correctly, establish record registration files, report to the competent administration at a higher level and may publish the information to the society.

Article 10 If any item in the registration form has any changes, alcohol managers should apply for going through change formalities to the competent commercial department within 30 days as of the date of change (the item subject to industrial and commercial affairs should be handled within 30 days as of the date of change in industrial and commercial registration).
The competent commercial department should handle the change formalities within 5 working days at receipt of the written materials submitted by the alcohol managers.
Registration Form shall lose efficacy automatically from the day when the industrial and commercial administrations cancel the registration or revoke the business license of the alcohol managers. The competent commercial department should verify regularly the cancellation or revoking with industrial and commercial administrations at the same level.

Article 11 The competent commercial departments can only collect cost of production approved by local price department and should not collect other costs when they handle the formalities of record registration or record change.

Article 12 Alcohol managers must not forge, alter, rent, lend, transfer, buy and sell or obtain by cheating Record Registration Form for Alcohol Circulation.

Chapter III Operation Rules

Article 13 Any one engaged in alcohol wholesale, retail, storage and transportation should perform the provisions of relative standard of the state or industry in accordance with laws.

Article 14 Alcohol managers (the suppliers) should fill in Attached Documents for Alcohol Circulation (“Attached Documents” in short below) when they wholesale alcoholic commodities, recording the detailed circulation information of alcoholic commodities. Attached Documents is attached in the whole process of alcohol circulation. The documents should go with the commodities and the two should match each other so as to realize the retroactivity of circulation information of alcoholic commodities in the whole process from the production to sale.

The content of Attached Documents should include selling unit (name, address, number of record registration and contact form)£name of the buyer, date of selling, sold commodities (name, specification, origin, production numbers, quantity, unit) and etc. The seal of the manager should be affixed.

The alcohol managers who have established perfect trace to the source system meeting the requirements of these measures may use the documents made by themselves to replace the Attached Documents stipulated in these measures with the approval of the Ministry of Commerce.
Article 15 When purchasing alcoholic commodities, alcohol managers should ask for the copies of the suppliers’ business license, health permit, production permit (only the producer), registration form, the authorization letter for alcohol marketing (only the producer).

Alcohol managers should ask for the copy of effective certificate of product quality inspection of every batch of alcoholic commodities they purchased, and the Attached Documents affixed a seal of alcohol manager or the documents according with the provisions of Article 14, section 2 of these measures. To the imported alcoholic commodities, they should also ask for the copies of Hygiene Certificate for Imported Foods and Label Verification Certificate for Imported Food issued by national entry and exit inspection and quarantine department.

Alcohol managers should establish purchasing and selling account for alcohol business and maintain it for three years.

Article 16 Alcohol managers should sell alcohol in bulk with label in a fixed place, should not sell alcohol in bulk from place to place.

The container of alcohol in bulk should meet the requirements of national food hygiene, pasted the symbol meeting national label standard of alcoholic drinks, and indicate clearly the efficacy for sale after opening, the manager and the telephone number.

Article 17 Alcohol managers should meet the requirements of food sanitation management, fire safety, storage and transportation when they store and transport alcoholic commodities. Alcoholic commodities should be far away from high pollution and high radiation area, should not be stored together with the toxic, harmful and corrosive goods and pollutants (sources).