The Food and Drug Administration in charge of cosmetics will be merged with the other two bureaus! I

On March 13, 2018, Tong Jinghong observed cosmetics

At the first session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) on March 13, The State Council Institutional reform Plan (draft) was a bombshell that triggered a response from all sectors of society.

The reform plan will reduce the number of ministerial-level agencies under The State Council by eight and the number of deputy ministerial-level agencies by seven. In addition to The General Office of the State Council, The State Council has 26 ministries and commissions.

Among them, the establishment of a new State Administration for Market Regulation is closely related to the cosmetics industry.

The three bureaus were merged to form the State Administration for Market Regulation

The State Administration for Market Regulation will be created, and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the State Food and Drug Administration will no longer be in place, State Councilor Wang Yong said in a statement on The State Council's institutional reform plan.

Scheme is put forward, and the state administration for industry and commerce, the state administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine, administration of the state food and drug supervision and management responsibilities, the price supervision and inspection of the National Development and Reform Commission and the anti-monopoly law enforcement duties, the Ministry of Commerce the concentration of the anti-monopoly law enforcement and the antimonopoly commission office duties such as integration, forming a national market supervision and administration bureau, As an agency directly under The State Council.

According to Wang Yong, the main responsibilities of the State Administration for Market Regulation are to be responsible for the comprehensive supervision and management of the market, including the unified registration of market entities and the establishment of an information publicity and sharing mechanism, the organization of comprehensive law enforcement of market regulation, the responsibility of anti-monopoly unified law enforcement, the regulation and maintenance of market order, the organization of the implementation of the quality power strategy, To be responsible for the supervision of the quality and safety of industrial products, food safety and special equipment, and the unified management of measurement standards, inspection and quarantine, certification and accreditation.

One point of concern is that the responsibility and team of the entry-exit inspection and quarantine administration of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine will be transferred to the General Administration of Customs, while the Food Safety Committee of The State Council and the Anti-monopoly Committee of The State Council will be retained, and the specific work will be undertaken by the State Administration for Market Regulation.

Meanwhile, the functions of Certification and Accreditation Administration and Standardization Administration are transferred to the State Administration for Market Regulation, and their brands are retained externally; The State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and the State Food and Drug Administration will no longer be maintained.

In a nutshell, the responsibilities of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies have been integrated into the newly formed State Administration for Market Regulation.

Tighter market regulation and lower business operating costs

It can be seen that the basic logic of The State Council Institutional Reform Plan (Draft) is to optimize the setup and function allocation of government agencies, and to realize that one department is in principle responsible for one kind of affairs and one department is in principle responsible for one matter.

For the reform plan, Guangdong daily chemical Chamber of Commerce Secretary Yu Xueling said, although the specific content has not come out, but can boldly predict that the reform and all the market related industries have an impact, and is a positive impact, cosmetics industry is no exception.

She pointed out that after the "three bureau in one" cosmetics enterprises only need to face a general supervision department, in line with the business "centralized management" principle, which can reduce duplication, multiple management, conducive to each subdivision of the departments of their respective duties.

Yu Xueling also said that as a key part of the transformation of government functions, simplifying the approval process and increasing the supervision of market events are the main direction of the last government. However, due to various reasons, the cosmetic industry has not been able to simplify the approval process, but has become more and more complicated. I hope this reform can truly implement this point.

According to the analysis of China News network, from the surface, the reform has solved the problem of market players facing multiple layers of repeated law enforcement; From a deep level, the establishment of the State Administration for Market Regulation, a new institution, is a deepening of the transformation of the functions of government agencies.

Some in the industry say that compared with the old method of relying on administrative approval to "filter" unqualified enterprises, after a series of reforms in the commercial system, China's market regulation has taken on a new style to protect fair competition and optimize the business environment by providing information disclosure, anti-monopoly and other services.

This means that the cosmetics industry will be more strictly regulated in the future.

A cosmetic industry also said, small enough to see the general direction. The entry and exit inspection and quarantine management responsibilities and teams of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine are transferred to the General Administration of Customs. The approval process of cosmetics enterprises has a tendency to simplify, and the operation cost of enterprises is expected to be reduced.

The State Council institutional reform plan (draft), submitted to the Congress for deliberation, will be voted on at the fifth plenary session of the People's Congress on March 17. How will the cosmetics industry change? We'll keep track.