The State Council has approved the Opinions on Disclosing Administrative Penalty Cases of Manufacture and Sales of Fake and Shoddy Goods and Intellectual Property Infringement (for Trial Implementation) formulated by the Leading Group of the National Campaign against IPR Infringement and Counterfeit Products.
According to the Opinions:
Administrative law enforcement departments should disclose information of administrative penalty cases of counterfeit and IPR infringement through medium and press. The information disclosure should be within 20 working days after the penalty decisions are made. The infringement cases should be timely reported where public health and life security are concerned such as food, medical, health devices, agricultural materials.
The information to be disclosed includes all the details clearly recorded in the decision for administrative penalty such as the main facts and issues about a violation as well as the conclusion of the judgment, the details of the case where the administrative penalty is changed or revoked due to administrative reconsideration or administrative lawsuit, and the details of the case transferred to judicial organs after the decision for administrative penalty is made. The administrative law enforcement departments should publicize the infringement cases according to the Regulation of Government Disclosure .
It is also known that there should be special sections responsible for the information disclosure and coordination mechanism within the administrative law enforcement departments to ensure the accuracy and uniformity of the information disclosure.
