BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) According to the WeChat WeChat official account news of the General Administration of Market Supervision, the general offices of the General Office of the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council recently issued the Provisions on the Responsibility System for Food Safety of Local Party and Government Leading Cadres, which clarified that local party committees and governments at all levels should take overall responsibility for food safety work in the region, and those who fail to do their work and lead to major or particularly serious food safety accidents or cause serious adverse effects should be severely investigated for responsibility.
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The General Offices of the General Office of the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council recently issued the Provisions on the Responsibility System for Food Safety of Local Party and Government Leading Cadres, which clearly stipulated the food safety responsibilities, assessment and supervision, rewards and punishments of local party and government leading cadres. The relevant person in charge of the General Administration of Market Supervision answered the reporter’s questions on relevant issues.
The person in charge said that the promulgation of the "Regulations" provided a new institutional guarantee for food safety work, which will more effectively urge local governments to implement the responsibility of territorial management of food safety, promote the improvement of local food safety work, and better protect the people’s "safety on the tip of the tongue".
According to the person in charge, the "Regulations" clarify that local party committees and governments at all levels have overall responsibility for food safety work in the region. The main person in charge is the first person in charge of food safety work in the region, and other members of the team are responsible for food safety work in the industry or field in charge.
— — The main leaders of local party committees at all levels "should comprehensively strengthen the party’s leadership over food safety work in the region";
— — The main person in charge of local governments at all levels "should strengthen the leadership of food safety work in the region";
— — The person in charge of food safety in local governments at all levels "should strengthen the leadership of food safety supervision in the region and be specifically responsible for organizing food safety supervision in the region";
— — Other members of the Standing Committee of local party committees at all levels and other members of the government leadership team shall, in accordance with the division of responsibilities, strengthen their leadership over food safety-related work in the industry or field in charge.
The person in charge said that the "Regulations" also clarified the three major means of supervision and implementation. The first is tracking supervision. It is clear that local party committees and governments at all levels should follow up and supervise the implementation of major deployment and key work of food safety. The second is duty inspection. It is clear that local party committees at all levels should check the performance of food safety duties by local party and government leading cadres in combination with the inspection work arrangements. The third is appraisal. It is clear that local party committees and governments at all levels should give full play to the role of "baton" in evaluation and assessment, and promote local party and government leading cadres to implement food safety responsibilities. The "Regulations" emphasize the application of the results, and clarify that the results of follow-up supervision, duty inspection and evaluation should be used as an important reference for the assessment, reward and punishment, use and adjustment of local party and government leading cadres.
Regarding rewards and punishments, the person in charge introduced that the "Regulations" clearly and effectively organize the prevention of food safety accidents and eliminate major food safety risks in a timely manner, so as to protect the interests of the state and the people from major losses; Significant innovations have been made in food safety work and remarkable results have been achieved; In the case of outstanding achievements in the evaluation of food safety work, it shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with relevant regulations.
Failing to perform the duties and requirements of the Regulations, or failing to perform their duties properly; Responsible for leading major food safety accidents in this region or food safety incidents with bad social impact; Failing to organize and lead the relevant departments to effectively deal with food safety accidents in this area in time, causing adverse effects or great losses; Leading responsibility for concealing, making false reports or delaying the reporting of food safety accidents; Violation of regulations, intervention in the handling of food safety accidents according to law and the handling of food safety crimes, etc., should be held accountable in accordance with relevant regulations.
The "Regulations" also mentioned that those who report dereliction of duty in time and take the initiative to take remedial measures, effectively prevent or reduce the heavy losses of food safety accidents, recover serious adverse effects of society, or actively cooperate with accountability investigations and take the initiative to take responsibility shall be given a lighter and mitigated accountability in accordance with relevant regulations; If poor work leads to major or especially major food safety accidents, or causes serious adverse effects, the responsibility shall be severely investigated.