CCTV News: On January 7, the State Council Information Office held a regular briefing on the State Council’s policies to introduce the relevant situation of the "Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Strictly Standardizing Administrative Inspections in Enterprises".

Fe Xianghong, spokesperson of the Ministry of Justice and director of the Rule of Law Propaganda Center, introduced at the meeting that at present, enterprises have reported more problems such as multi-head inspections and repeated inspections. The "Opinions" have made clear requirements, requiring the minimization of the frequency of inspections in enterprises to enter enterprises, and mainly stipulates from four aspects:

1. Strictly control on-site inspections. If the requirement can be implemented through written verification, information sharing, smart supervision, etc., the company shall not conduct on-site inspections. For example, administrative agencies can obtain basic information about the company and whether it has obtained administrative licenses through internal information sharing, so there is no need to go to the company for inspection.

The second is to reasonably choose the inspection method. The "Opinions" require that administrative inspections be implemented, mergers that can be merged, and joints that can be combined shall not be repeated or multi-headed inspections. Now some places have made useful attempts and explorations in improving inspection methods. On the basis of summarizing these good experiences and practices, the "Opinions" proposes to optimize inspection methods such as "comprehensive inspection once". "Comprehensive inspection once" means to conduct joint law enforcement inspections on the same regulatory object at the same time for relevant administrative inspection matters involving multiple law enforcement entities such as cross-department, cross-field, and cross-level. For example, during the inspection of the catering industry, law enforcement departments can check whether there is a catering service license, whether there is a tableware disinfection facility, and environmental sanitation status.

The third is to establish a hierarchical and classified inspection system. Depending on the degree of standardization of the enterprise's own management, the requirements for inspection frequency should also be different, and one-size-fits-all" cannot be adopted. For example, some places now practice is that enterprises with relatively standardized operations and high credit ratings do not need to conduct frequent inspections, and those enterprises with irregular management and high risk ratings need to strengthen management, and the inspection frequency should be higher. The "Opinions" require the relevant competent departments of the State Council to establish a hierarchical and classified inspection system in this field before the end of June this year.

Fourth, announce the upper limit of annual inspection frequency. At present, the competent departments in some fields have conducted too frequent inspections on enterprises, and some have exceeded reasonable limits, resulting in companies being exhausted from responding and normal production and operation have been affected. In response to this phenomenon reflected by society, the "Opinions" require that the relevant competent departments should announce the annual frequency limit for the same administrative agency to implement administrative inspections on the same enterprise by the end of June this year. The purpose is to use this rigid requirement to minimize the frequency of inspections, effectively reduce some unnecessary inspections, and reduce the burden on enterprises.