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(Adopted by the Standing Committee of the Government of the South Kyoto City on 28 August 2003 No. 221 of 9 September 2003 by the People's Government Order No. 221 of 9 September 2003 (Act of 1 November 2003) Article 1 ensures the authenticity, accuracy and timeliness of price monitoring data and plays an important role in macroeconomic regulation and price management, in line with the relevant provisions of the People's Republic of China price law, and develops this approach in conjunction with the current market. Article 2 presents price monitoring, which refers to activities undertaken by price authorities to track, collect, analyse and release changes in important commodities, services prices and costs, in accordance with macroeconomic regulatory and price management needs. The projects referred to in the previous paragraph for important commodities, services have been identified and published in accordance with the directory developed by the State Department and provincial price authorities. The municipal price authorities may complement specific projects requiring price monitoring in the current administration area and report on provincial price authorities. Article 3. The basic function of price monitoring is to implement price monitoring forecasts, propose price early warning recommendations, service macroeconomic management and price management at all levels of government, and social production and consumption services. Article IV is responsible for price monitoring in the current administrative area by the municipal, district and district price authorities. In their respective roles, the municipalities, districts and other relevant sectors of the people's government cooperate with the price monitoring process. Article 5 Price authorities should establish sound price monitoring institutions based on the needs of price monitoring, improve monitoring tools, strengthen price monitoring data collection, processing, feedback, transmission equipment and network-building, and establish a market-wide integrated tariff monitoring network system. The municipal, district, and district governments and the relevant sectors should support the building of prices monitoring within the Territory. Article 6. The municipal price authorities, in line with the relevant provisions of the State, have developed a uniform market-wide tariff monitoring reporting system, which is followed by the approval of the Government. The price monitoring reporting system should clarify the following: (i) Price monitoring reporting units; (ii) Price monitoring; (iii) Methods and procedures for price monitoring investigations, monitoring cycles; (iv) Price information tracking, collection, analysis and reporting methods and content. Article 7. The price authorities should establish and improve the pre-emptiveness of price monitoring and early warning forecasts in case of sudden-onset events;, if necessary, trigger emergencies, conduct 24-hour price monitoring, and provide timely scientific analysis and evaluation of price monitoring data. Article 8. Regional and district price authorities should strengthen monitoring of agricultural prices and agricultural fees and establish a network of monitoring of sound rural prices. Article 9. The price monitoring is based on a periodic price monitoring and a point-of-stage price monitoring, while conducting specialized surveys on major economic issues and the issue of price hot spots of social concern. Article 10 The price authorities may designate the relevant units and individuals as price-monitoring units, as required by the price monitoring reporting system, and issue certificates or marks in accordance with the relevant national provisions. Non-scheduled units and individuals should be subject to temporary investigations by price authorities. Article 11. The price authorities shall determine the price monitoring point in accordance with the following provisions: (i) The choice of price monitoring point units should be representative, and monitoring data sent should reflect local prices; (ii) The establishment of the targeted units of the Territory, in accordance with the scope of management and division of labour, shall not be repeated; (iii) The price monitoring point unit has been determined without any intentional change, adjustment to ensure continuity and comparability of the data. Article 12: The price monitoring point unit shall fulfil the following obligations: (i) Accept, cooperate with the price monitoring survey; (ii) In accordance with the provisions and requirements of the price monitoring reporting system, the price authorities are promptly informed of the price monitoring information approved by the principal heads of the unit and to ensure their authenticity, accuracy and limitation. No refusal to provide price monitoring information may be refused to conceal, forfeiture, and forfeiture and price monitoring information; (iii) Establishment of an internal management system for price monitoring and the designation of persons responsible for the collection, collation and reporting of the unit's price monitoring information. Article 13: The price-monitoring unit enjoys the following rights: (i) The right to require the price authorities to provide guidance and assistance to their work on the provision of price monitoring information; (ii) There is a need to understand the average level of goods and services provided and the relevant information, and the right to require the price authorities to provide them without compensation; (iii) The right to reject monitoring activities carried out by price authorities and their staff in violation of the provisions and procedures. Article 14. The price monitoring staff shall comply with the following provisions: (i) Provide price monitoring in accordance with the content, standards, methods, time and procedures set out in the price monitoring reporting system; (ii) When investigating and collecting price information, it is necessary to produce a standardized price monitoring certificate, which is compiled by provincial price authorities, using a unified price monitoring form; (iii) The professional training and examination of price authorities and the expertise necessary to perform price monitoring duties; (iv) The task of contacting price-monitoring units, reflecting the situation in a timely manner and helping to address specific problems in monitoring. Article 15. The price authorities shall report on price monitoring reports and price situation analyses on a regular basis to the same-level people's governments and superior price authorities. In the event of major epidemics, severe natural disasters, market prices arise or may be subject to abnormal fluctuations, price authorities should strengthen monitoring, in a timely and accurate manner of market price dynamics and conduct careful analysis, daily price monitoring reports and price situation analysis reports. Significant cases should be sent in a timely manner and emergencies should be sent within two hours. Article 16 should include the following key elements: (i) Monitoring changes in prices of goods and services; (ii) Monitoring changes in the cost of goods and services; (iii) Early warning of trends in prices of goods and services monitored; (iv) Recommendations and implementation of price policies; (v) Other elements related to the monitored price of goods and services. Article 17 Price authorities should use price monitoring information to be published and consulted for social and enterprise services. Monitoring information and forecasting information on commodity and service prices in this administrative area shall be regularly or without regular publication by price authorities. Article 18 The price authorities and their staff shall be confidential in respect of the price information obtained by law as a State secret and commercial secret. Article 19 The price authorities should grant recognition and incentives to units and individuals highlighted in price monitoring. Article 20, in violation of article 12, paragraph 2, of this approach, provides that price monitoring units refuse to provide price monitoring information or provide non-very real price monitoring information, which is being ordered by the price authorities and warned by the price authorities, and that the delay cannot be altered by fines of up to 1,000 dollars. Article 21, price authorities do not provide relevant information to price-monitoring units in accordance with this approach, which is redirected by the parent price authority; in the event of severe circumstances, the administrative disposition of directly responsible supervisors and other direct responsibilities is given by law. Article 22, price authorities and their staff disclose secrets, abuse of their duties, negligence, provocative fraud, and administrative disposition of the directly responsible supervisors and other direct responsibilities, which constitute a crime, are criminalized by law. Article 23 of this approach was implemented effective 1 November 2003. |
