Notice of the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission on announcing the cancellation of 103 administrative examination and approval fees

November 24, 2004 Caizong [2004] No.87

Relevant departments of the CPC Central Committee, ministries and commissions of the State Council, directly affiliated institutions, finance departments (bureaus) of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, development and reform commissions and price bureaus:
　　In order to fully implement the Administrative Licensing Law and promote administration according to law, in accordance with the Notice of the State Council on Printing and Distributing the Implementation Outline of Comprehensively Promoting Administration according to Law (Guo Fa [2004] No.10), the Implementation Opinions of General Office of the State Council on Implementing the Implementation Outline of Comprehensively Promoting Administration according to Law (Guo Fa [2004] No.24) and the State Council’s Decision on the Third Batch of Cancellation and Adjustment of Administrative Examination and Approval Items (Guo Fa [2004]) As well as the relevant provisions of the Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance on Clearing up the Charges of Administrative Organs and Institutions (No.1196 [2004] of the Development and Reform Commission), we have comprehensively cleaned up the national and central departments and units’ administrative examination and approval (including administrative licensing, the same below) and decided to announce the cancellation of 103 administrative examination and approval and other charging items. The relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:
　　First, the following 84 items have been approved by the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission (including the former State Planning Commission and the former State Price Bureau), but the administrative examination and approval fees that do not meet the provisions of laws and administrative regulations shall be announced for cancellation.
　　(1) Public security departments
　　1 border management area pass fee
　　2 border residents entry and exit permit fee
　　3. The cost of the foreigner’s settlement identity confirmation form
　　4. Work fee for the ship’s work permit
　　5 Taiwan Province compatriots travel certificate fee.
　　6. driver’s license annual inspection fee
　　7. Handling fees for major and extraordinarily serious traffic accidents
　　8. Fee for holding a gun license for official use
　　9. Cost of civil firearms holding license
　　10 explosive storage license fee
　　11 explosives use license fee
　　12. Fee for explosives purchase certificate
　　13 explosives transport license fee
　　14. The demolition work permit fee
　　(B) development and reform (coal) sector
　　15. Cost of coal business qualification certificate
　　(3) Food and drug supervision departments
　　16 new biological products approval fee (incorporated into the new drug approval fee)
　　17. Registration fee for export license of special chemicals
　　18 drug packaging materials, container production enterprise license review fee
　　(IV) Agricultural sector
　　19 export pesticide approval fee
　　20. Application for examination and approval fee for pesticide test
　　21. Soil and fertilizer testing fee
　　22. Registration fee for fertilizer, soil conditioner and plant growth regulator (including registration certificate fee)
　　23. Regional test fee for crop varieties
　　(5) Industrial and commercial departments
　　24 "trademark registration certificate" verification fee
　　(6) Information industry departments
　　25. Radio registration fee (including fees charged by other departments)
　　26 basic telecommunications business license fee
　　27 trans regional value-added telecommunications business license fee
　　28 value-added telecommunications business license fee
　　(VII) Science and Technology Department
　　29. Technology contract registration fee
　　30 science and technology award evaluation fee (including other departments)
　　(8) Department of land and resources
　　31. Examination and approval fee for geological survey report
　　32 construction land approval fee
　　(9) Surveying and mapping departments
　　33 surveying and mapping work permit fee
　　34. Surveying and mapping qualification fee
　　(10) Department of tobacco monopoly
　　35 tobacco monopoly license (including production, wholesale, retail, temporary) charges
　　(11) Zhongzhi Administration Bureau
　　36. Evaluation fee for scientific research and production units of commercial password products
　　37. Annual fee for licensed sales of commercial password products
　　(twelve) personnel and other departments belong to the talent flow center.
　　38. Political examination fee for going abroad
　　(13) Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense
　　39. Licensing fees for nuclear materials
　　(14) People’s Bank of China
　　40. Charge for loan card
　　(fifteen) the competent department of production safety (coal)
　　41 dangerous chemicals business license fee
　　42. Fee for special operators’ operation certificate (IC card)
　　43 township coal mine safety production conditions certificate fee
　　(16) Judicial department
　　44. Fee for lawyer’s practice license
　　45 grass-roots legal service workers practicing license fee
　　46. Notary’s practice certificate fee
　　47 law firm practice license fee
　　(17) Press and publication department
　　48 newspaper publishing license fee
　　49. Press card fee
　　(XVIII) Cultural departments
　　50. Performance license fee
　　(XIX) Forestry Department
　　51. Timber transport license fee
　　52 timber cutting license fee
　　53 domestication and breeding license fee
　　54. Fee for special hunting and catching license
　　55 hunting license fee
　　(twenty) population and family planning departments.
　　56 "floating population marriage certificate" fee
　　(twenty-one) civil aviation management department
　　57. Business license fee
　　58 civil aviation safety inspection license fee
　　59. Safety inspection instrument use certificate fee
　　(XXII) Railway departments
　　60 liquefied gas railway tank car (tank) transport license fee
　　(XXIII) Construction Department
　　61. Certified architect certificate fee
　　62. Certificate fee for registered structural engineer
　　63. Certificate fee for registered town planners
　　64. Certificate fee for real estate appraisers
　　65 real estate agent registration certificate fee
　　66. Cost engineer certificate fee
　　67. Supervision engineer certificate fee
　　68 engineering survey and design qualification certification fees
　　69 construction enterprise qualification examination certificate fee
　　70. Construction supervision certificate (including supervision engineer certificate and supervision unit certificate) fee
　　71 city planning qualification certificate fee
　　(twenty-four) labor and social security departments
　　72 wage fund management manual fee
　　(twenty-five) education department
　　73 at their own expense to study abroad intermediary service institutions qualification certificate fee
　　(XXVI) Department of Transportation
　　74. Fee for work permit on water and underwater.
　　(27) China Securities Regulatory Commission.
　　75. Issuance audit fee
　　(28) General Administration of Customs
　　76 customs supervision fees for duty-free goods
　　77. Customs supervision fees for goods in export supervised warehouses
　　78. Tax refund (customs clearance) fee for imported goods
　　79. The vehicle takes up the inspection fee for overtime.
　　80. Vehicle inspection fee
　　(XXIX) Health department
　　81 private medical institutions management fees
　　(30) Port administrative departments (local governments)
　　82. Port management (construction) fee
　　(31) Quality inspection and quarantine department
　　83 cotton quality inspector registration certificate fee
　　(32) Intellectual property department
　　84 intellectual property training center school funding
　　Two, the following seven administrative examination and approval fees have been approved by the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission (including the former State Planning Commission and the former State Price Bureau), with the third batch of administrative examination and approval items cancelled in the State Council.
　　(a) the public security (production safety) department
　　1 explosives (including fireworks) safety production license fee
　　2 explosives (including fireworks) sales license fee
　　(2) The financial department
　　3. Examination fees for registered accountants to perform securities and futures-related businesses.
　　(III) Agricultural sector
　　4 veterinary drug preparation license fee
　　(4) Commercial departments
　　5. Fee for import certificate of specific mechanical and electrical products
　　6 mechanical and electrical products import quota certificate fee
　　(5) General Administration of Customs
　　7. Registration fee for customs declaration unit
　　　 Three, the following 12 administrative examination and approval fees, belonging to the relevant departments ultra vires approval fees, to be announced to cancel.
　　(1) People’s Bank of China
　　1 mechanical and electrical products import registration form fee
　　(2) Department of transportation
　　2 "water transport license" fee
　　3. Cost of building fire protection certificate
　　4. Fire control construction permit fee
　　5. Fire control audit fee
　　6 explosives management certificate fee
　　(3) Tourism sector
　　7. Fee for star report of tourist hotel
　　8 travel agency business license fee
　　9. Travel agency to declare technical report fee
　　10. Fee for the list of overseas travel teams
　　11 outbound tour guide card fee
　　12 tour guide qualification certificate fee
　　Four, the above fees, in addition to the cancellation of the third batch of administrative examination and approval items in the State Council, the fees approved by the relevant departments beyond their authority shall be corrected immediately, and other fees shall be cancelled as of January 1, 2005. Relevant collecting departments and units shall, in accordance with the regulations, go through the cancellation procedures of the License for Charges at the competent price department that originally issued the License for Charges, and go through the cancellation procedures of the bills at the financial department that originally issued the bills for charges. Before January 1, 2005, the balance of relevant funds for charges shall be paid in full to the state treasury or financial accounts in strict accordance with the channels originally prescribed by the financial department. Where the provisions of relevant documents in the past are inconsistent with this notice, the provisions of this notice shall prevail.
　　Five, after the cancellation of the above fees, the relevant departments and units in accordance with laws, administrative regulations and the provisions of the State Council to perform the functions of administrative examination and approval or the issuance of licenses required funds, by the financial department at the same level through the departmental budget or approved by the financial department charged channels to be guaranteed. The financial departments at all levels shall ensure that the relevant departments and units shall perform the expenses required for administrative examination and approval according to law.
　　Six, all regions and relevant departments should be strictly in accordance with the provisions of this notice and the development and reform price [2004] No.1196 document, conscientiously implement the announced cancellation of fees and charges, and before the end of January 2005, the region, the department to implement the cancellation of fees and charges, the amount involved and other reports to the Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission for the record.

　　CC: General Office of the State Council, offices of the Financial Ombudsman of the Ministry of Finance in all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and cities under separate state planning.