Measures for Administration of Alcohol Circulation
Article 28 Whoever violates Article 14 and 15 of these measures should be given a warning and ordered to make correction by the competent commercial departments and the punishment may be published to the society. Whoever refuses to make correction may be imposed a fine less than 5 thousand yuan in light of circumstances and the punishment should be published to the society.
Article 29 Whoever violates Article 16 and 17 of these measures should be given a warning and ordered to make correction by the competent commercial departments. If the case is serious, a fine of less than 10 thousand yuan may be imposed and the case may be transferred to the industrial and commercial administrations. Whoever commits a crime should be ascertained criminal responsibility.
Article 30 Whoever violates Article 19 of these measures should be given a warning and ordered to make correction by the competent commercial departments. If the case is serious, a fine of less than 2 thousand yuan should be imposed.
Article 31 Whoever violates Article 20 of these measures should be imposed a fine of less than 30 thousand yuan in light of circumstances and whose illegal commodities should be confiscated by the competent commercial department together with relative departments. Whoever violates industrial and commercial administrative laws and regulations or the exclusive rights to use trademarks should be transferred to the industrial and commercial administrations for punishment in accordance with laws. Whoever violates other laws and regulations should be transferred to corresponding agencies for punishment in accordance with laws. Whoever commits a crime should be ascertained criminal responsibility.
Article 32 Whoever violates Article 22 Section 3 of these measures should be given a warning by the competent commercial departments and instructed to make correction. If the case is serious, a fine of less than 10 thousand yuan may be imposed.
Article 33 If the competent commercial departments violate the provisions of these measures during supervision and administration of alcohol circulation should be given administrative sanction in accordance with laws.
Article VI Supplementary Articles
Article 34 The areas that have performed administrative permission management for alcohol circulation should perform continuously the permission system and the system of trace to the source to the circulation of alcoholic commodities. Alcohol circulation permit is regarded as Registration Form.
Article 35 Registration Form and Attached Documents are made uniformly by the Ministry of Commerce. Provincial competent commercial departments are responsible for the concrete implementation.
Article 36 The competent commercial departments at the lever higher than county may authorize corresponding agencies to be engaged in the supervision and administration of alcohol circulation in accordance with laws.
Article 37 The interpretation of these measures is vested in the Ministry of Commerce.
Article 38 These measures shall come into effect on January 1, 2006 and set 3 months as transitional period on the date of implementation. During the transitional period, alcohol managers should handle record registration and establish alcohol trace to the source system in accordance with these measures
