Hunan Tobacco Monopoly Bureau works to solve regulatory challenges for vaping and other novel tobacc
FLOW-wrap: break-word !important;"> Recently, the Hunan Province Tobacco Monopoly Bureau and the Hunan Province Public Security Department held a summary of the province's" Skynet 2023 "special action and a promotion meeting to crack down on tobacco-related crimes. Focus on" strengthening all-round market supervision and effectively solving new smoke-related supervision problems ", comprehensively summarize the effectiveness of the province's" Skynet 2023 "special action, and arrange and deploy key tasks in the next stage to crack down on smoke-related crimes.
In recent years, with the development and changes of the domestic and international environmental situation, tobacco counterfeiting and smuggling and market supervision are facing some new situations and new problems. The pressure to prevent rebound and transfer continues to increase, and new tobacco-related products, new platforms and new channels emerge one after another. How to resolutely shoulder regulatory responsibilities and comprehensively strengthen them in accordance with the lawe-cigarettesNew types of smoke-related supervision have become a must-answer question to improve the level of legal and standardized supervision.
The Hunan Province Bureau resolutely implements the work deployment of the Ministry of Public Security and the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. Based on the overall strategic goal of promoting high-quality development and modernization of the industry, it has made great efforts in full-chain attacks, normalized supervision, and innovative governance, making precise efforts to overcome difficulties, and comprehensively strengthen tobacco market supervision with a systematic concept, and has achieved solid results in solving new tobacco-related regulatory problems.
Seeking deeply and realistically, the governance of" game of chess "has reached a new level
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Comprehensively strengthen the supervision of new types of tobacco related to e-cigarettes in accordance with the law and strictly implement normalized regulatory requirements, which is related to the consolidation and improvement of the tobacco monopoly system and the protection of national interests and consumer interests.
Whether it is illegally extracting nicotine, illegally manufacturing and selling flavored e-cigarettes such as" milk tea cups "and" coke cans ", or using e-commerce, social networking, Short videos, live broadcast platforms and logistics delivery channels to organize illegal transactions, new types of tobacco-related illegal activities have significantly different characteristics from production and manufacturing to trafficking and distribution.
Hard with one finger is better than holding your fingers into a fist. In response to the new challenges brought by new types of illegal tobacco-related activities, the Hunan Province Bureau has always adhered to the concept of "one game of chess" and continuously laid a solid foundation for joint supervision work.
In order to better gather regulatory forces, strengthen work coordination, and smooth work connection, the Hunan Province Bureau actively seeks government departments to include the fight against tobacco-related crimes into provincial government commendation projects, Ping 'an City and Prefecture construction, and public security and market supervision line assessments, and expand the province's" two cigarettes "coordination leading group.
" At the same time, we have taken the initiative to strengthen external communication and coordination, established and improved joint law enforcement mechanisms with public security, market supervision and other departments, and issued regulatory work lists to effectively enhance regulatory effectiveness." Pan Jianxiong, director of the Monopoly Department of the Hunan Province Bureau, said.
From the perspective of the Hunan Province, in order to fundamentally solve the new smoking-related regulatory problems, we must mobilize all mobilized positive factors, gather all available forces, and while continuously deepening cross-department collaboration, expand cross-regional collaboration and integrate cross-level collaboration.
To this end, they adhere to" one game of chess in the province "and integrate into the" one game of chess in the country ": signed a law enforcement cooperation agreement with the Guangxi Tobacco Monopoly Bureau to combat tobacco-related crimes, actively integrated into the Guangdong, Guangxi, Shenzhen, Hunan, Qiongzhou and Guizhou tobacco counterfeiting and smuggling collaboration mechanism, continued to increase the coordination of linkage response and joint strikes with neighboring provinces and key regions, and continuously improved the level of cross-regional tobacco-related supervision and law enforcement collaboration.
At the same time, the Hunan Province Bureau took the opportunity of industry digital transformation to build a visual command and dispatch platform for the province's smoke-related cases, explored the establishment of a regional collaborative management mechanism, implemented joint supervision of major cases, effectively integrated and used supervision forces and resources at all levels, concentrated efforts to break through key issues, and continuously transformed the advantages of the monopoly system into governance effectiveness.# p#pagination title #e#
Good work and good success, new breakthroughs have been made in the entire chain of attacks
Batching machines, roller sifting machines, oil-water separation tanks, extraction exchange towers... At the display site of the results of the Hunan Province" Tianwang 2023 "special operation on anti-counterfeiting, a set of nicotine production lines seized in the" October 31 "case of illegal nicotine trading in Yiyang was particularly eye-catching.
In October 2022, Yiyang Public Security and Tobacco Joint Brothers launched a simultaneous attack in Yiyang, Hunan, Gao 'an, Jiangxi, Dongguan, Hubei Enshi and other places, successfully cracked the" October 31 "illegal nicotine business case, arrested 16 suspects, and seized 2 sets of large-scale nicotine extraction equipment, 3 tons of 40% concentration nicotine sulfate, and more than 190 tons of tobacco powder raw materials, with a case value of nearly 17 million yuan.
During the investigation of the case, the tobacco departments at the city and county levels in Hunan Province closely communicated and coordinated with the public security and other departments, using the testing of tobacco components in all aspects such as raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished products involved in the case as a breakthrough to properly resolve the characterization of the case, application of charges, and fixation of evidence, successfully destroyed a criminal gang that radiated in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hubei, Yunnan and other provinces and involved in illegal purchase of tobacco leaves and illegal processing and sales of nicotine.
Laws must be followed and laws must be strictly enforced. To comprehensively strengthen new types of smoke-related supervision such as e-cigarettes and achieve the goal of "being able to manage" but also "managing well", we must adhere to the principle of ending the nest, breaking the source, breaking the network, and catching the main offender, and expand the line through deep excavation. Investigate the source and improve the market supervision system of "online cleanup, offline control, full-chain coverage, and joint governance".# p#pagination title #e#
Focusing on this goal, the Hunan Province Bureau adheres to the responsibility, responsibility, and fulfill its responsibilities, highlights forward-looking planning, and regards resolutely preventing the transfer of the illegal e-cigarette industry chain to the province as a strategic issue to promote the modernization of monopoly supervision. It actively leads the problem and makes every effort to solve the problem, establishes and improves the integrated governance system of" attack, prevention, management, and control ", and achieves a deep attack on the entire chain of illegal e-cigarette raw materials extraction, production, processing, and sales.
Focusing on upstream raw material control, on the basis of comprehensively grasping the production and sales of tobacco farmers, trading of nicotine raw materials, and tobacco waste disposal, and clarifying regulatory responsibilities at a hierarchical level, the Hunan Province Bureau organized a special campaign to crack down on illegal business of tobacco leaves, severely crack down on the illegal production and extraction of nicotine for e-cigarettes, and improve the control of nicotine raw materials.
Strictly crack down on illegal manufacturing in the middle reaches, and the Hunan Province Bureau strictly controls the control of local party committees and governmentse-cigarette marketNew violations of entities and projects have been added. At the same time, public security, market supervision and other departments have been jointly organized to strengthen the investigation of hidden dangers in illegal production of e-cigarettes, strengthen the deep investigation of e-cigarette cases, and focus on breaking through a number of major cases of illegal operation of e-cigarettes in the production chain.
Strengthen the rectification of the downstream market. The Hunan Province Bureau organized a centralized rectification of the e-cigarette market to strictly investigate cigarette retailers selling e-cigarettes without a license, and e-cigarette retailers selling illegally produced flavored e-cigarettes such as" tea cups "and" cola cans ".huashangThe chaos of selling flavored e-cigarettes has effectively safeguarded national interests and consumer interests, and effectively protected minors from cigarettes (including e-cigarettes).
Since the beginning of this year, Hunan Province has investigated and dealt with 102 e-cigarette cases, including 34 criminal cases, and" tea cups "and" coke cans "were seized #p#paginated title #e#e #e-cigarette productsWith nearly 500,000 cigarettes, 2 tons of nicotine and aerosolized matter, the supervision work has achieved phased results, and the order of the province's e-cigarette market has significantly improved.
Detailed implementation, all-element control shows new achievements
The world's major events must be done in detail. The new type of tobacco-related supervision is a brand-new task, and it is also a systematic, regular and long-term task. It needs to be continuously summarized and improved in practice to form a long-term and long-term supervision mechanism.
The Hunan Province Bureau adheres to the combination of blocking and sparse, comprehensive policies, refines e-cigarette supervision systems and measures, continues to improve the new smoke-related supervision system of" online clean-up, offline control, full-chain coverage, and joint governance ", and promotes the implementation of integrated supervision of new products, new platforms, and new channels.
In order to better guide market entities to produce and operate in accordance with laws and regulations, they have successively formulated a total of 12 institutional documents on the construction of the credit management system for e-cigarette retail market entities and the investigation and handling of e-cigarette cases, comprehensively using credit supervision, double random supervision, and key supervision measures to comprehensively strengthen daily supervision of licensed enterprises and retailers, and seriously investigate and deal with illegal activities of selling cigarettes to minors.
On this basis, the Hunan Province Bureau relies on the Hunan Tobacco Tobacco Case Intelligence Analysis Center to strengthen police and cigarette coordination in terms of intelligence collection, sharing, research and judgment, and investigation of major and major cases, and build a new pattern of smoke-related supervision with intelligence reporting and detection as the guide, joint operations as the norm, and scientific and technological applications as the support.# p#pagination title #e#
In April 2023, the Changsha City Bureau teamed up with the local public security department to successfully destroy the country's first criminal network that stole genuine cigarette anti-counterfeiting QR codes, and identified the underground industrial chain from QR code information theft, sales, and printing to the production and sales of counterfeit cigarettes. In actual combat, multiple investigative methods such as segmented screening and reverse tracing have been tested and improved.
In recent years, with the rapid development of the e-commerce industry," online shopping + delivery "has become a new consumption model. Various delivery methods such as express delivery, flash delivery, and purchasing provide "convenience" for criminals to engage in illegal smoke-related activities through delivery channels.
To this end, the Hunan Province Bureau conscientiously implemented the special action requirements of" Safe Delivery ", joined forces with relevant functional departments to strengthen online live broadcasts and control of illegal cigarette sales on social platforms, and promoted online and offline integrated crackdowns, and seized a total of 2066 packages of counterfeit cigarettes and 7.04 million pieces of counterfeit cigarettes.
In February 2023, the Yueyang City Bureau started with a chattering Short Video that" popularized "foreign cigars, and joined forces with the public security organs through big data analysis and judgment to accurately identify clues to the use of online live broadcasts to drain and sell smuggled cigars, sorted out and restored 13 involved nodes, destroyed 5 criminal gangs such as counterfeiting, smuggling, live broadcasts, and distribution, and achieved a precise attack on the entire chain of supply organization, platform live broadcasts, and online transactions.
Although the road is a long way, you must come; although it is difficult, you must succeed. "On the journey to solve the new problem of tobacco-related supervision, the Hunan Province Bureau will, as always, fully implement the work arrangements of the Ministry of Public Security and the State Bureau on combating tobacco-related crimes, and use new results in all-round supervision to promote high-quality development and modernization of the industry." said Kong Xiangtong, director of the Hunan Province Bureau.
