Seed enterprise fraud traceability system severely punishes compensation

On the 20th, the standing Committee of the National people's Congress examined the draft National Security Law and the draft seed Law. Among them, the draft national security law was submitted to the meeting for second deliberation, adding security tasks in some important areas in accordance with the needs of safeguarding national security. In the network and information security, the second draft added the provisions of "building a national network and information security guarantee system, enhancing the ability of network and information security protection" and "safeguarding national cyberspace sovereignty".

Draft seed law

Transgenic breeding should be announced in time

In order to regulate the management of the entry of foreign capital into China's seed industry, the draft stipulates that the state will establish a safety review mechanism for the seed industry. Standardize foreigners, foreign enterprises or other foreign organizations to invest in, merge and acquire domestic seed enterprises, or to carry out technical cooperation with domestic scientific research institutions and seed enterprises to engage in variety research and development, seed production and operation, and so on.

In order to respond to consumers' concerns about the safety of genetically modified products, the draft stipulates that the breeding, testing, approval and promotion of genetically modified plant varieties should be evaluated and strict safety control measures should be adopted. the administrative department of agriculture and forestry under the State Council shall strengthen follow-up supervision and timely announce the information on the examination and promotion of genetically modified plant varieties. Compared with the current seed law, the content of strengthening tracking supervision and timely announcement of relevant information should be added. The draft also stipulates that the seed production and operation licenses of seed enterprises engaged in the production and operation of seeds of genetically modified plant varieties shall be examined and examined by the administrative departments of agriculture and forestry of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and submitted to the administrative department of agriculture and forestry under the State Council for approval.

Establish the traceability system of seed experimental data

The draft stipulates that a traceability system for experimental data of seed enterprises will be established. if seed enterprises commit fraud in violation of the regulations, they will be disqualified for self-experiment and severely punished.

It is understood that the variety approval system is an important system of variety management in China, which has been implemented for many years and has played a positive role in the promotion of improved varieties, but there are also some problems in practice. Some places reflect that at present, there are many varieties that need to be examined, the approval channel is narrow, the examination and approval process is not standardized, some approval standards are out of line with market demand, variety approval and protection are out of line, and "more than one product" and "one product with more than one product" occur from time to time.

In response to this problem, the draft stipulates that, first, the number of approved varieties of major crops should be reduced. Abolish the provisions that the agricultural administrative departments under the State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may each determine one or two major crops as varieties for examination and approval, the number of major crops examined and approved has been reduced from 28 to five types of rice, wheat, corn, cotton and soybeans. The second is to standardize variety approval. The variety applied for approval shall meet the requirements of specificity, consistency and stability. The third is to set up a green channel for variety approval. For seed enterprises that combine breeding, production and management and meet the legal conditions, if the varieties developed independently need to be examined and approved, the experiments may be completed on their own in accordance with the examination and approval measures. Establish a traceability system for the experimental data of seed enterprises, and if the seed enterprises commit fraud in violation of the regulations, they shall be disqualified for self-experiment and severely punished. The fourth is to establish a variety withdrawal system. If the approved crop varieties and forest varieties have insurmountable extremely serious defects and are not suitable for continued operation and promotion, the original announcement department shall issue a public announcement to stop the operation and promotion.