Promulgated: March 19 2004Effective: May 1 2004Main contents: The Rules stipulate that the items, standard and method of fee charging by law firms shall…
The new Procedures represent China's WTO commitments to remove restrictions in wholesale and retail industry against wholly-owned foreign enterprises, introduce more permissible retail and wholesale activities, and simplifies approval process.
New regulations from the State Administration of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Commerce have opened the advertising market in China to greater foreign participation.
The new Regulations open the advertising market in China to greater foreign participation (one of the WTO commitments), and provide a legal guide for gaining more substantial control over their China operations.
The revised Law encourages increased foreign trade and cross-border services and cooperation by simplifying the approval requirements to trading rights, but impose new intellectual property licensing barriers.
The Procedures concern the monitoring, analysis and assessment of non-performing assets, in particular sources and analyses of data and information and the time for assessment report submission.
The March 2004 meeting of the National People's Congress ushered in landmark changes to the PRC Constitution. A look into the constitutional amendments and the new protections of private property.