On September 10, 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) called for comments on the Circular Economy Promotion Law of the People’s Republic of China.
The outline for comments includes:
I. The definition, essence and characteristics of circular economy.
II. The significance of the development of circular economy in promoting high-quality economic development, safeguarding national resource security, achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and promoting ecological civilization construction, etc.
III. Comparison of international legal system of circular economy and the national one.
IV. The implementation, problems and reasons, etc of the current Circular Economy Promotion Law,.
V. Issues that need to be further speculated in Legislation, including:
(A) Extended producer responsibility system, all -lifecycle management, and green supply chain management.
(B) Reduction in production side, distribution side, and consumption side.
(C) Green design of materials, products, buildings, packaging, etc.
(D) Construction of circular economy development models for industry, agriculture, construction, production and living services.
(E) The development of recycling in industrial parks.
(F) Recycling system building covering waste materials, especially waste electronic information products, power batteries, fan blades, photovoltaic components, automobiles and parts, waste plastics, and waste textiles.
(G) Resource recycling and remanufacturing and the promotion of recycled raw materials and remanufactured products.
(H) Recycling of water resources.
(I) Waste classification and utilization of domestic waste, food waste, kitchen waste, construction waste, garden waste, urban sludge as resources.
(J) Internet+ resource recycling, secondary market, sharing economy, green consumption, etc.
VI. Specific comments on the revision of the existing Circular Economy Law, including the name of the laws, the framework structure, the legislative purpose, the definition of circular economy, the basic management system, incentives and constraints, rewards and penalties, the legal responsibilities and obligations of relevant parties and amendment suggestions of specific provisions.
The deadline is September 30, 2021.
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