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After eight years, China's long-awaited Tort Liability Law is primed to wholesale regulate tort liability and re-set quality standards for PRC-made products. Clarifications on product liability, punitive damages and statutes of limitation are addressed, but enforcement and integration with existing regulations, along with other vagaries, remain to be tested

On November 26 2009, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) promulgated the PRC Tort Liability Law (中华人民共和国侵权责任法) (TLL), which will become effective on July 1 2010. The TLL is of great importance to civil legislation in China and will play a significant role in the protection of civil rights, the clarification of tort liabilities, and the prevention and sanction of tort activities.

    The legislation of the TLL commenced on 2002 by the Internal and Judicial Affairs Committee of the NPC as a Chapter of tort liability in the Civil Code, and the draft of the TLL had been through review four times before it was passed as a single law by the NPC.

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