The Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Civil Disputes over Food Safety (I), which was adopted at the 1813th meeting of the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court on October 19, 2020, is hereby promulgated and shall come into force as of January 1, 2021.

Relevant statistics show that the total number of Chinese sailors exceeds 1.4 million, ranking first in the world, and more than 140,000 seafarers are sent abroad every year alone. In the face of such a large group, how can maritime justice better protect the legitimate rights and interests of seafarers? On September 27, the Supreme People's Court published the Provisions on Several Issues Concerning the Trial of Disputes involving Seafarers, which will come into force on September 29, 2020....

On September 13, the Supreme People's Court issued the "Approval on Several Issues concerning the Application of Law to Disputes concerning Online Intellectual Property Infringement" (hereinafter referred to as the "Approval of Online Intellectual Property") and the "Guiding Opinions on Hearing Civil Cases Concerning Intellectual Property Rights related to E-commerce Platforms" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions on E-commerce Platforms").   A Supreme Court on the infringement of intellectual property rights related to the Internet The approval of several legal application issues      Supreme People's Court On disputes involving Internet intellectual property rights infringement A couple of applications of law (Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court, August 24, 2020) Adopted at the 1810th meeting, effe...

The Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues concerning the Specific Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights (III), which was adopted at the 1811th meeting of the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court on August 31, 2020 and at the 48th meeting of the 13th Procuratorial Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate on August 21, 2020, is hereby promulgated. Effective from September 14, 2020....

The Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Civil Cases involving Infringement of Trade Secrets, which were adopted by the 1810th Session of the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People's Court on August 24, 2020, are hereby promulgated and shall come into force as of September 12, 2020.

On September 1, in order to implement the Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics, the Cosmetics Supervision Department of the State Drug Administration commissioned the China Food and Drug Control Institute to organize the drafting of the Guiding Principles for the Evaluation of Cosmetic Efficacy Claims (draft for comments), and formally solicited comments from the public.

On August 28, in order to implement the "Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics", the Cosmetic Supervision Department of the State Drug Administration entrusted the China Food and Drug Control Institute to organize the drafting of the "Specification for the registration and filing of new raw Materials for Cosmetics" (draft for comments), and formally solicited opinions from the public.

On July 29, in order to implement the "Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics", the State Drug Administration drafted the "Classification Rules and Classification Catalogue of Cosmetics" (draft for comments), and formally solicited comments from the public.

On July 21, in order to implement the "Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics" and further standardize the supervision and administration of cosmetics production and operation, the State Drug Administration drafted the "Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics Production and Operation (Draft for Comments)" and formally solicited comments from the public.