Ministry of Commerce, Announcement on the Launch of the Advancement in the Examination and Approval of Foreign-invested Projects

商务部关于开展优化外商投资项目审批公告

June 23, 2014 | BY

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FIE examination and approval procedures streamlined.

Clp Reference: 2100/14.05.28 Promulgated: 2014-05-28 Effective: 2014-05-28

Issued: May 28 2014

Effective: from the date of issuance to August 31 2014

Main contents: Except for foreign-invested direct sales projects, all matters relating to the establishment of, and change to, foreign-invested enterprises subject to the examination and approval of the Ministry of Commerce in accordance with the law shall be included within the scope of this pilot examination and approval project (Article 1).

Simplification of the submission procedure for examination and approval matters falling within the scope of the pilot project: the competent commerce department at the provincial level shall directly accept the application documents of foreign, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan investors as well as foreign-invested enterprises, which it shall then forward to the Ministry of Commerce after preliminary review. The stage of forwarding of such application documents by competent commerce authorities below the provincial level is abolished (Article 2).

The documents to be submitted shall be simplified and certain documents the submission of which is not expressly provided for in laws or regulations shall be abolished. For the specific documents to be submitted, reference may be made to the Guidelines for the Handling of Matters Relating to the Examination and Approval of Foreign Investment found on the website of the Ministry of Commerce (Article 3).

clp reference:2100/14.05.28 issued:2014-05-28 effective:2014-05-28

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