Authors: Zhan Hao, Song Ying, Yang Zhan In June 2020, the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) published a new book, the 2019 Compilation of Antitrust Regulations and Guidelines, which contains four previously unpublished guidelines covering the automotive sector, intellectual property rights, leniency policy, and commitments by undertakings. The Guidelines on Leniency for Horizontal Monopoly Agreements (the “Leniency Guidelines”) detail SAMR’s leniency policies towards horizontal monopoly agreements (cartels) under China’s antitrust…

The automobile industry has been under the radar of China’s antitrust enforcement for a number of years. Since 2014, the agency had successively issued fines against many players in the automobile supply chain, including auto parts manufacturers, and motor vehicle suppliers and distributors. By November of 2019, the aggregate antitrust fine in the car sector reached up to RMB 2.5 billion. Excepting those cartel-related penalties against 12 Japanese auto parts manufacturers in 2014, all of…

State Council to formulate the CII security protection regulations On July 8, 2020, the General Office of the State Council issued the 2020 Legislative Plan, including several laws in the cyber security sector, such as the Regulations on Network Protection of Minors and the Regulations on the Security Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure. http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/2020-07/08/content_5525117.htm Supreme People’s Court and the National Development and Reform Commission: To strengthen the protection of data rights and personal information security. On July 20,…

Author: Samuel Yang, Nicholas Blackmore China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress, recently enacted a Civil Code which will come into force on 1 January 2021. The Civil Code is a major landmark in Chinese legal history – it is the first comprehensive codification of the civil laws of the People’s Republic of China, which has been a goal of Chinese governments since the Qing Dynasty. The Civil Code covers the full scope of Chinese civil…

Authors: Wan Jia, Liu Sichen I. The Background Information of the Raised Question The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has left a huge impact on business operations worldwide. For many companies, a business interruption (“BI”) that could result from this impact is a hazard which features among their greatest operational risks this year. Although many companies are insured against BI, their coverage under their insurance policies may not extend as far as they believe.…

China issues draft Data Security Law to solicit public opinions 中国公布《数据安全法》草案 Recently, the National People’s Congress released the Data Security Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft) for public opinions (“Draft”). Highlights of the draft include: In order to establish data security system, the State implements: data classification and grading protection system:The Draft provides that data should be protected by different levels and categories based the importance of data in economic and social development, and the…