Administrative Measures for the Recovery of Renewable Resources (2019 Amendment Version)

Administrative Measures for the Recovery of Renewable Resources (2019 Amendment Version) Administrative Measures for the Recovery of Renewable Resources (Issued by Order No. 8 [2007] of the Ministry of Commerce, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Construction, State Administration for Industry and Commerce and State Environmental Protection Administration on March 27, 2007; amended in accordance with the Decision of the Ministry of Commerce to Repeal and Amend Some Rules by Order No. 1 [2019] of the Ministry of Commerce on November 30, 2019) Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 For the purposes of promoting the recovery of renewable resources, regulating the development of the industry of recovery of renewable resources, saving resources, protecting environmental protection, realizing sustainable development of economy and society, these Measures are formulated in accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on Promoting Clean Production , Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes and other laws and regulations. Article 2 The term “renewable resource” as mentioned in these Measures refers to various wastes which arise from social production and consumption in daily life, have already lost the entire or partial use value and may re-obtain useful value by way of recovery and processing. Renewable resources include waste metal, waste electronic products, waste mechanical electrical equipment and spare parts thereof, waste raw materials for the production of paper (such as waste paper and waste cotton), waste light industrial raw materials (such as rubber, plastic, wrap-pages of pesticide, animal bones, hair, etc.), waste glass, etc. Article 3 The enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households engaging in the recovery business operations within the territory of China (hereinafter generally referred to as the “business operators of renewable resources”) shall abide by these Measures. If any law, regulation or rule provides otherwise for the administration of recovery of solid wastes, dangerous wastes and discarded autos which are imported and may be utilized as raw materials, such law, regulation or rule shall prevail. Article 4 The state encourages all walks of life and urban and rural residents to accumulate, deliver and sell renewable resources. Article 5 The state encourages innocuous recovery and processing of renewable resources and encourages scientific research, technological development and popularization relating to the recovery and processing of renewable resources. Chapter II Business Operation Rules Article 6 Whoever is to engage in business activities relating to the recovery of renewable resources may not engage in such business activities until it has satisfied the registration conditions under the industrial and commercial administration and completed industrial and commercial registration. The recordation items for renewable resources recovery operators shall be integrated into business licenses, and market regulatory departments shall, after confirming the industrial and commercial registration, share the enterprise information to all relevant departments through provincial sharing platforms. Article 8 For a renewable resource recovery enterprise engaging in the recovery of production waste metals or for a renewable resource business operator engaging in the recovery of non-production waste metals, it shall go through the archival filing formalities in the local public security organ of the local people's government at the county level within 15 days after it obtains a business license. After the change of any archival item, the business operator engaging in the recovery of renewable resources as mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall, within 15 days after the date of change (within 15 days as of the date of the change of industrial and commercial registration if it falls into the category of industrial and commercial register items), go through the archival filing formalities in the local public security organ of the local people's government at the county level. Article 9 A production enterprise shall deliver and sell production waste metals by way of signing purchase contracts with renewable resource recovery enterprises. A purchase contract shall cover ......