The Fourth Plenary Session of the major decisions issued, the Food and Drug Administration or will be withdrawn?

Recently, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee adopted the "Decision on the comprehensive promotion of the rule of law on a number of major issues" published in full, the future direction of the food and drug supervision department has become the focus of attention.
the "Major Decisions" explicitly require "deepening the reform of the administrative law enforcement system." We will promote comprehensive law enforcement, significantly reduce the types of government law enforcement teams at the municipal and county levels, and focus on implementing comprehensive law enforcement in the fields of food and drug safety, industrial and commercial quality inspection, public health, safe production, cultural tourism, resource environment, agriculture, forestry and water conservancy, transportation, urban and rural construction, marine fisheries, and so on. According to the authority and functions of different levels of government, according to the principle of reducing the level, integrating the team and improving efficiency, the law enforcement force is reasonably configured.
also because, at the Central Rural Work Conference at the end of last year, Xi said: "Can we give the people a satisfactory account of food safety, is a major test of our ability to govern." Our party is in power in China, if even a food safety is not good, but also long-term do not do well, some people will raise the problem of inadequate. Therefore, food safety issues must cause a high degree of concern, under the maximum strength to grasp.
So, there are now three kinds of speculation about the future direction of the food and drug regulatory authorities, some people think that the Food and Drug Administration (mainly local bureaus) will be abolished and integrated with other agencies into the market order supervision bureau; The market supervision functions of many departments, such as the Quality Supervision Bureau, will be optimized and integrated, and their respective institutions will still exist, and it is believed that the Food and Drug Administration is a highly specialized, technical and special importance area, which will maintain the systematic nature of the food and drug regulatory system and be further strengthened.
, the first model of reform had previously been controversial, and allowing the emergence of cross-sectoral integrated law enforcement meant that it would eventually be formally endorsed.
The first model is generally three-in-one or even four-in-one, the drug supervision, quality inspection and industry and commerce into a market order supervision bureau (market bureau), four-in-one is added to the price bureau, which is the reform mode that appeared in the latter stages of drug supervision reform.
's not new. A widely circulated statement is that the State Council will integrate the functions of industry and commerce, quality inspection, drug supervision and other departments, the establishment of the General Administration of Market Order Supervision. However, the final drafting group took into account the food safety situation and the professional nature of drug supervision, adopted a more secure approach, will be scattered in the industry and commerce, quality supervision, health, drug supervision, food safety and other food supervision functions integration, the establishment of the State Food and Drug Administration.
this abandoned management model, why is it respected in the process of reform?
April 2013, the Guidance of the State Council on Local Reform and Improvement of the Food and Drug Regulatory System was promulgated. In accordance with the planned timetable for the reform, the reform of the food and drug regulatory agencies at the provincial, municipal and county levels was completed in principle in the first half of 2013, the end of September and the end of the year, respectively. But the reform of the Food and Drug Administration is not going well.
, deputy professor at the National School of Administration, statistics show that as of June this year, there are still some provincial food and drug supervision reform has not been completed, the city and county-level drug reform started more slowly.
as a whole, in the current round of drug regulatory reform, the reforms in North, South and Northwest China have made rapid progress, while the East China region, which has the highest level of economic development and has always been a pioneer of reform, has made slower progress.
the reason is that the current round of reform mainly involves the ownership of food, many central and western provinces, agriculture and food industry in the local national economy occupies an important position, improve the regulatory system will help the healthy development of the industry and ensure food and drug safety.
, however, the economies and economies of these regions are generally underdeveloped, with a weak regulatory base and a large historical debt. Therefore, policy makers have the incentive to use this reform as an opportunity to establish a strong regulatory system, on the one hand to respond to the local public and industry demands, on the other hand, in the new round of administrative reform to obtain political achievements, can be described as "double income."
some local staff even admitted in interviews that the midwest's push for reform could be understood as a "fishing project" that "put together a regulatory framework and then has good reason to apply to the central government for a special transfer payment to maintain it." "
agricultural products and food in coastal economically developed areas are mainly imported from abroad, the regulatory base in the past was good, and policymakers were not in a hurry to push ahead with reforms, but rather adopted a "slow and fast" wait-and-see attitude. At the same time, the prosperity of the market economy in the region, typical market regulatory departments such as industry and commerce, quality supervision embedded in the industrial network is deeper, in the government system has a greater voice, the ability to resist reform is also stronger.
pressure to push forward reform, the three-in-one or even four-in-one model has become the first choice in many developed regions. There are two reasons for this:
first, according to media reports, an insider in Guangdong's food and drug regulatory system said that the core contradictions in the grass-roots personnel transfer. Because the establishment is not only human, but also a resource. There are financial resources, testing funds and projects. Other departments are not willing to be removed from the establishment.
, in order to promote drug reform, industry and commerce, quality supervision cancelled the province's following vertical management, which led to the local government composition of the department out of the sky out of two. Strict control of the number of institutions is also a county-level government to consider the issue.
so in the local game and waiting, this three-in-one or even four-in-one model became both to meet the number of control agencies and measure the benefits of the means, but the original intention to strengthen food safety supervision has been shelved.
the effectiveness of regulation under this model is not encouraging. Public data show that the national industrial and commercial system of civil servants about 420,000 people, the drug system of civil servants and institutions a total of less than 90,000 personnel. Where the "Market Supervision Bureau" was established, the district and county-level grass-roots markets were almost all established on the basis of industrial and commercial institutions, and the personnel were mainly former industrial and commercial personnel.
For example, the market supervision and administration bureau of Anhui Province's Weicheng Economic Development Zone, the global 33 people include 30 people in the industrial and commercial system, 2 people in the quality supervision system, only 1 person in the original food and drug system;
for the industrial and commercial system, in addition to the circulation of food, food, health food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, everything is a new term. Drug regulation, in particular, may "not even make a report" for new visitors. The most professional drug regulation is facing professional challenges.
In July this year, Shanghai Fuxi was exposed to the use of expired degeneration of meat raw materials, in August, a lawyer on the "GMO food label is not significant" to the competent authorities to report the request for investigation, multi-food regulatory authorities responded that there are no testing conditions.
more worrying is the re-emerged of local protectionism.
In 2008, the state abolished the vertical management of the food and drug supervision system, the food and drug supervision system to the local, according to SaibaiLan understand that drug regulators, especially the grass-roots drug supervision staff, a piece of mourning, that this move is a major blow to the cause of drug supervision.
is that local governments attach importance to economic development, while drug regulators belong to the regulatory authorities, pure inputs do not produce, local governments are not active for drug regulators. At the same time, after returning to the local, food, medicine supervision how to get rid of the "politicians" to say hello and escort the performance has become a hidden worry of reform. Therefore, many grass-roots drug regulators either seek to change jobs, or passively idle work.
in order to tie in with the reform of the Food and Drug Administration, in October 2011, the State Council issued a document to abolish the vertical management of the Bureau of Industry and Commerce, the Bureau of Quality Inspection, and also put these departments to the local level. According to media reports, some local market bureaus or food and drug regulatory bureaus have been arranged by the local government to attract investment tasks.
Out of concern about the regulatory effect, media reports said that industry and commerce, quality inspection and medicine three-in-one Reform Measures in Tianjin, almost at the same time, the provinces are said to have conveyed from the State Council on the reform of the food and drug system, the instructions require all regions to implement the documents previously issued by the State Council, the municipal food and drug regulatory agencies must be independently set up, the county level has been three-in-one temporary reservation.
the future drug regulatory reform will go? The author specifically interviewed a senior expert in the pharmaceutical industry, he said, before the Fourth Plenary Session, especially before the Third Plenary Session of some policy documents, or some of the practices that appear in some places, does not represent the Third Plenary Session, especially after the Fourth Plenary Session, will or will continue to adhere to the practice. In addition to the "Major Decisions" of the Fourth Plenary Session, which explicitly call for the promotion of comprehensive law enforcement, there is also a clear requirement that "all unconstitutional acts must be investigated and corrected." We will strengthen the system of filing examination and capacity-building, include all normative documents in the scope of filing review, revoke and correct normative documents that violate the constitution and law in accordance with the law, and prohibit local production of documents of a legislative nature. "The pharmaceutical industry, not in line with the central spirit and related laws and regulations of the policy regulations, so, if the Fourth Plenary Session of the "major decisions" really implemented, there should be a lot of policies need to be corrected or withdrawn, specific to the changes in the food and drug regulatory agencies, is certain. It remains to be seen how that will change. (Seber Blue)