Third-party nucleic acid testing institutions may not impose charges

On February 7th, the General Office of the General Administration of Market Supervision announced the Notice on the Key Work of Near-Term Price Supervision and Competition (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), deploying local market regulators, focusing on ensuring the people's local New Year and serving the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control, focusing on key links in key areas, increasing price supervision and anti-unfair competition efforts, so that the people can spend the Spring Festival warm, peaceful, healthy and safe.Notice requirements, to focus on strengthening nucleic acid testing, epidemic prevention materials and other price charges supervision, to serve the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of price charges of nucleic acid testing institutions to ensure the implementation of the price charging policy, and may not increase the charging items and expand the scope of charges on their own. To guide third-party testing institutions to do a good job in accordance with the provisions of the clear mark-up price, not to use service packages and other means to force bundling charges, increase the burden of the masses. We will continue to strengthen the work of maintaining the price of anti-epidemic materials such as masks, testing reagents and disinfectants, and pay close attention to the implementation of the free policy for the new coronavirus vaccine. In high-risk areas in the outbreak, in accordance with the requirements of local government prevention and control, it is strictly prohibited to carry out direct sales staff or dealers offline training, it is strictly prohibited to convene chambers of commerce, seminars and other offline gathering activities.The circular stressed that emphasis should be placed on strengthening price monitoring and supervision of necessities and other necessities to meet the basic needs of the people for the New Year. Strengthen the monitoring and supervision of the prices of rice noodle oil, meat, egg milk, vegetables, fruits and other necessities of life, and severely investigate and punish illegal acts such as hoarding, price hikes and price collusion, so as to ensure market supply and stabilize the price order. Strengthen the supervision of online platform promotion behavior, urge platform enterprises to standardize the price-marking behavior, focus on combating false price, false propaganda, false discount and other unfair price competition behavior. Guide takeaway platform in the implementation of full reduction, distribution of red envelopes and other activities, to fulfill price commitments. Severely investigate and punish scenic tickets do not implement government pricing, do not implement the policy of relief and other illegal violations, regulate scenic tickets clearly marked prices. Strengthen the administrative guidance interview, advocate accommodation, catering enterprises operating in good faith, pay close attention to the market price of culture and entertainment.The notice proposed that we should focus on strengthening the supervision and inspection of the landing of various preferential policies on price charges, so as to improve the people's sense of access and well-being. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of the policy of exemption of minibus tolls, the policy of "green channel" for the transportation of fresh agricultural products, the preferential policy of traffic communication, and the policy of refund and change of railway civil aviation, and seriously investigate and punish illegal acts that do not implement preferential policies and fail to fulfill price commitments, and shall not change the conditions for the application of preferential policies on prices without authorization, so as to do a good job. (Rule of Law Daily)