[Comprehensive] The draft revision of the standardization law was first submitted for consideration

According to the revised draft of the Xinhua News Agency's standardization law, on April 24th, it was submitted to the twenty-seventh session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for consideration. This is the first time that the revised draft was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for consideration. The revised draft is intended to expand the scope of standard formulation to suit the needs of economic and social development.

In order to better play the basic and strategic role of the standard, the revised draft intends to expand the scope of the formulation of standards from the areas of industrial products, engineering construction and environmental protection stipulated in the current law to the fields of agriculture, industry, service industry and social undertakings.

The revised draft stipulates that the current mandatory national, industrial, and local standards should be integrated into mandatory national standards, and that the scope of mandatory national standards should be strictly limited to safeguarding human health and safety of lives and property, national security, ecological environment, and social satisfaction. Technical requirements for basic economic management requirements, and elimination of mandatory industry standards and local standards.

In order to solve the problem of the lack of standard aging, the revised draft further clarified the responsibilities of the State Council's standardization administrative department, relevant administrative departments of the State Council, and local people's governments' standardization administrative departments to formulate recommended national standards, industry standards, and local standards, respectively.

According to the revised draft, in order to better play the role of the standard in promoting the national economy and social development, it is clear that mandatory standards should be made public and available to the public for free inspection. The state promotes free publicity of recommended standards to the public.