Mary made several minor
amendments to her essay.
玛丽对自己的论文作了几处小的修改。
Tom tried to push the
amendment through Parliament.
汤姆试图使修正案在议会获得通过。
Lisa said such demands wouldn't violate the First Amendment.
丽萨说这样的要求不违反第一修正案。
Chinese lawmakers adopted an amendment to the Anti-monopoly Law in late June that improves rules related to the platform economy and the concentration of operators.
6月底，中国立法者通过了《反垄断法》修正案，完善了与平台经济和经营者集中有关的规则。
"I think this deal looks like it's good for the shareholders; second, it's good for free speech, it's good for the First Amendment," Jordan said in an interview with Fox News.
乔丹在接受福克斯新闻采访时表示：“我认为这笔交易看起来对股东有好处；其次，它有利于言论自由，有利于第一修正案。”。
The current version was enacted after an amendment in 2018.
目前的版本是在2018年修订后颁布的。
The judge cited "serious questions" about whether the WeChat ban infringed on users' First Amendment rights.
Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco issued the order granting motion for preliminary injunction, which determined the restrictions placed on WeChat could violate the Constitutional Amendment rights of its users in the United States.
"The response came after the House of Representatives last week passed a bill along with an amendment that bans the US government agencies and institutions from buying surveillance cameras from Hikvision, Hytera Communications Corp and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. Hytera and Dahua also expressed regret over the vote and said they would safeguard their reputation and legal interest.
Following lawmakers' second reading of a draft amendment to the law on the development of SMEs, which contribute the majority to the country's GDP and job creation, things are -- at last -- looking up.
Shifting a larger share of stimulus financing measures to the national government would expand fiscal space, with China's recently adopted fiscal budget amendment for 2023 a welcome development in this regard, the report said.
Citing a recent approval by the US Senate of an amendment to the yearly defense bill on Thursday, which aims to prohibit the export of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve to China, Zhang Xiaoqiang, executive vice-chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges in Beijing, said such a move has further exacerbated the challenges in current China-US economic and trade relations.
China has fleshed out reform measures in the pipeline, as well as laws and regulations that need amendment, to better align with the CPTPP, and has addressed issues raised by member economies in a proactive manner, Chen said.
In light of the new developments, in 2021, he spearheaded the efforts in drafting and then submitting the proposal to make the amendment to the provincial legislature.
A draft amendment to the Anti-Unfair Competition Law opened for public opinion on Tuesday, with provisions for fines ranging as high as 5 percent of a firm's annual revenue to punish unfair competitive practices, it was announced on the website of the State Administration for Market Regulation.
Zhong Gang, executive director of the Competition Law Research Institute at the East China University of Political Science and Law, said: "The timely amendment aims to regulate and govern behaviors that disrupt fair competition during the development of the new economy, new formats and new business models in the country.
The State Administration for Market Regulation, China's market watchdog, is soliciting public opinionxa0on a draft amendment to the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, which focuses mainly on the digital economy, according to its official website on Tuesday.
China's amendment to the Anti-Monopoly Law, based on international practice, will greatly drive the healthy development of the platform economy and the innovation-driven development of more small and medium-sized enterprises, industry experts said.
"Therefore, the amendment timely responds to the core elements of competition in the platform economy, which will drive the healthy and sustainable development of the platform economy," he added.
Rules clarify platform operators shall not abuse dominant sector positionsChinese lawmakers adopted an amendment to the Anti-monopoly Law on Friday that improves rules related to the platform economy and the concentration of operators, which industry experts said is a timely revision to help boost fair competition and stabilize market expectations.
"With the amendment, rules and systems related to anti-monopoly matters have been further improved.
Wang said that the amendment comes as some new issues have emerged in the development of the country's socialist market economy, especially related to the rise of new business models such as the platform economy.
Wei Shilin, deputy director of the Competition Law Committee of Beijing Intellectual Property Law Research Institute, added that another highlight of the amendment concerns application rules regarding concentration of business operators－a practice where one business operator obtains control over another that may lead to monopolies.
The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, approved on Friday the amendment to the Antimonopoly Law, which will take effect on August 1 this year.
A draft amendment to the Antimonopoly Law was submitted to China's top legislature for a second review on Tuesday, with revisions in areas including the safe harbor mechanism, platform economy and concentration of business operators.
"More efforts will be made in accelerating the amendment of the Antimonopoly Law and on improving regulatory systems on market access, fair competition review and supervision of fair digital economy competition," said Gan, who is also deputy head of the administration.
Draft amendment to law promises to clean up and better regulate the platform economyOn Oct 19, for the first time, China proposed major changes to its Antimonopoly Law since its enaction in 2008.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, received a draft amendment to the Anti-monopoly Law for the first reading.
What necessitated the proposed amendment was the fervent desire to streamline and regulate China's massive platform economy that was tending to grow too big and too fast in a haphazard way that threatened to create monopolies and destabilize the economy.
The draft amendment this time will clarify the basic position of competition policy and the legal status of the fair competition review system.
"One of the main goals of recent antitrust efforts is to offer timely responses to monopoly cases that are related to platform-based companies and the overall sector," said Sun Jin, director of the Competition Law and Policy Research Center at Wuhan University, who participated in the proceedings relating to the proposed amendment to the Antimonopoly Law.
The draft amendment to the Anti-Monopoly Law was submitted on Tuesday to the ongoing session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, the top legislature, for review.
Chemerinsky filed an amicus brief in support of a group of WeChat users who sued the administration for violating the First Amendment.
And I felt that what President Trump did was inconsistent with American law, and especially the First Amendment," he said.
In January, the State Administration for Market Regulation published the Anti-Monopoly Law amendment draft to solicit public opinion, which involves articles to identify the dominant market position of internet platforms.
China's new draft amendment to its Criminal Law has proposed stricter punishment for intellectual property crimes.
The draft Amendment XI to the Criminal Law was submitted Tuesday to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, for the third reading.
The maximum prison term for trademark and copyright infringements will be increased from seven years to 10 years, according to the draft amendment.
China's booming parcel delivery sector will face stricter regulations aimed at promoting environmental sustainability and protecting consumer rights, according to an amendment released by the Ministry of Transport on Friday.
"The amendment will provide better protection for customers' legal rights," the ministry explained, citing a ban on companies leaving packages at stations or lockers without prior notification.
The congress passed a resolution on the study and implementation of the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a resolution on the report of the 12th executive committee of the ACFIC, and a resolution on an amendment to the Constitution of the China Federation of Industry and Commerce.
A draft amendment to the Law on Workplace Safety was submitted on Monday to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, for the second reading.
The draft amendment was submitted to the Standing Committee of the NPC for the first reading in January and has been published to solicit public opinion.
A draft amendment with harsher punishment for copycats and stronger protection for copyright owners is expected to be adopted by China's top legislature as part of its new move to encourage creativity and promote cultural development.
In August 2019, the National People's Congress released an amendment, offering further guidance to expressly permit the sale of prescription drugs online.
Ge cited the country's amendment to the Copyright Law and introduction of the Regulation on Computers Software Protection in 2011 as a major step in combating software piracy.
"Sure, we'd love to sell our beer in China," said Susan Greene, National Sales Manager of 21st Amendment Brewing in San Leandro, California.
"(The brewery takes its name from the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution, which revoked an earlier amendment prohibiting the consumption of alcohol.
The 100-member Senate ruled 91-6 in favor of the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
This is part of the amendment of the dual credit policy China promulgated in 2017, which assesses carmakers according to their efforts to cut fuel consumption and to produce new energy vehicles.
Now they can fetch 3.4 points and 1.6 points, according to the amendment.
Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of the China Passenger Car Association, said China's new energy vehicle sector, which has seen sales fall since the second half of 2019, will see a rise in 2021 thanks to the amendment.
They said the SEC was violating Musk's First Amendment rights to free speech.
The amendment to the rules also removes provisions that require the five major components of a motor vehicle－engine, steering system, transmission, axles and chassis, or frame－to be melted down.
To help address pollution and reduce emissions, China continues to issue strict regulations and has proposed a radical amendment to increase the manufacture and sale of e-vehicles.
He said China would become the nation with the strictest emission regulations, as it is presenting a radical amendment to emissions legislation to boost sales of electric vehicles.
The draft amendment to the Anti-monopoly Law also proposed that platform operators shall not exclude or restrict competition by using data, algorithms, technologies, capital advantages or platform rules.
The UK government on Tuesday defeated an amendment proposed by a group of Conservative Party members of Parliament trying to stop local telecom operators from using Huawei in 5G construction.
The British government on Tuesday defeated an amendment proposed by a group of Conservative MPs trying to stop local telecommunications operators from using "high risk vendors" in the near future.
According to the proposed amendment to the Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill, local operators will not be allowed to use "high-risk vendors" in their networks after Dec 31, 2022.
Without naming Huawei, the amendment is widely seen by local media to target the Chinese technology company, a Shenzhen-based networking and telecommunications equipment and services supplier.
Responding to the defeated amendment, Victor Zhang, vice president of Huawei, said "The government has examined the evidence and concluded that Huawei should not be banned on cyber security grounds and two parliamentary committees have done the same and agreed.
Liu Junhai, director of the Business Law Center at the Renmin University of China, said the amendment of this particular law is necessary for the PBOC to perform its duties according to the law, improve China's financial legal system, maintain financial safety, prevent financial risks and further promote the rule of law and the internationalization of its financial market.
Chinese companies' active outbound reach in overseas capital markets can be largely attributed to the latest amendment to the Shanghai-London Stock Connect scheme regulations.
- China has adopted an amendment to its criminal law to intensify crackdowns on securities and futures crimes, aiming to provide a stronger legal guarantee for the country's ongoing capital market reform and promote healthy development of the sector.
The criminal acts of fraudulently issuing securities and disclosing information, providing false supporting documents and manipulating the market will attract tougher punishment, according to Amendment XI to the Criminal Law adopted at a Standing Committee session of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature.
Describing the amendment as an important legislation for the capital market, the commission said that the move demonstrated the country's determination to exercise zero tolerance for all kinds of law-breaking behaviors and was of far-reaching significance to the reform of the registration-based initial public offering system.
Under the amendment, the maximum sentence for fraudulent securities issuances will be raised to 15 years from five, while the maximum prison term for fraudulent information disclosures will be increased to 10 years, with the cap on fines to be abolished.
The amendment also stipulates heavier penalties against controlling shareholders and actual controllers.
Behaviors such as organizing fraudulent securities issuances or concealing relevant matters will also be subject to the amendment.
China's second major fiscal reform arrived in 2014, through an amendment to the Budget Law of 1994.
That amendment represented a big step forward in transparency, experts said.
"With the latest amendment to the budget laws, there have been major breakthroughs in many aspects of the government's budget management work.
BEIJING — A draft amendment to China's Securities Law was adopted Saturday by the country's top legislature, a milestone in China's capital market reform.
The country has also decided to scrap business restrictions for foreign banks, securities firms and fund management firms, and implement an amendment to the management regulations for foreign banks and insurance companies.
- A draft amendment to the Securities Law was submitted Saturday to a bimonthly session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, China's top legislature, for a third reading.
A draft amendment to the law was previously submitted to the top legislature for first reading in April 2015, mainly to meet the legislative demand of reforming the IPO system toward a registration-based one.
Regulators will solicit public opinion on the rules for possible amendment until Feb 20.
Foreign banks will be able to compete on more equal terms and operate more flexibly in China, as part of the country's commitment to opening up its financial sector, according to a draft amendment to regulations, which was announced on Thursday.
Clients of foreign banks' domestic branches will be allowed to deposit at least 500,000 yuan ($72,000) into their accounts as time deposits per transaction, down from the 1 million yuan minimum stipulated in the current regulation, according to the draft amendment published by the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.
"Other revisions in the amendment could also spur more equal competition between foreign and domestic banks, such as permitting foreign banks to act as agents to issue and sell government bonds," Liu said.
Zeng Gang, director of banking research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Finance and Banking, said the amendment is a significant move in opening up the country's banking sector.
The draft amendment also allows foreign banks to simultaneously establish domestic branches and subsidiaries, which could be wholly foreign-owned banks or joint ventures.
The special expense deductions, having been introduced to China's individual income tax system as an amendment to the Personal Income Tax Law, was passed by China's top legislature on August 31.
The whole amendment will come into force on Jan 1.
China's top legislature adopted an amendment to the Individual Income Tax Law on Friday, raising the minimum threshold for paying personal income tax from 3,500 yuan ($510) to 5,000 yuan per month, or 60,000 yuan per year.
The amendment aims to reduce the burden for taxpayers, raise people's incomes and boost consumption, legislators and finance officials said.
The amendment also adds special expense deductions for items such as children's education, continuing education, treatment for serious diseases, as well as housing loan interest and rent.
The change to the income tax threshold will take effect on Oct 1, while the rest of the amendment will go into effect on Jan 1.
The new tax threshold is set to take effect on Oct 1, before the whole amendment comes into force on Jan 1.
Private schools can apply for financing from financial institutions using future operating income and intellectual property rights as a guarantee, according to a draft amendment to the regulation regarding non-government funded education.
The amendment in the Detailed rules for implementation of regulations of the People's Republic of China on administration of foreign-funded insurance companies may involve raising the proportion of foreign equity in a joint-equity life insurance company from 50 percent to 51 percent, according to Shanghai Securities News.
The amendment may also involve simplifying procedures and lowering requirements for joint-equity life insurance companies and solely foreign-funded life insurance companies to set up branches.
The amendment may also involve equity change.
Under the amendment, a foreign-funded insurance company should have at least one insurance company, which is in normal operation, as its major shareholder and if there is a change of shareholding, after the change, there should also be at least one insurance company, which is in normal operation, as its major shareholder.
The country's lawmakers are still reviewing the amendment that's sought to be made to the Securities Law.
While any major revamp of the current IPO rules would require the amendment of the Securities Law, analysts said that the regulator will need to improve the existing share offering system to better facilitate the fundraising needs of the country's innovative startups.
In theory, China's IPO reform would require the amendment of the Securities Law which needs approval by the country's top legislature.
Lawmakers then decided to authorize the government to launch the registration-based IPO system without finishing the amendment of the Securities Law.
The amendment of the law was delayed after the country's stocks experienced a dramatic rout in 2015.
Li Shuguang, law professor at China University of Political Science and Law, said that the regulators should also make breakthroughs in the current IPO approval system and push the amendment of the Securities Law.
Blacklisted enterprises will not be banned from making overseas investments once and for all, as the guideline has introduced an "amendment scheme", he said.
Assuring implementationThe move to revise the rules is aimed at helping IP regulators accurately implement the amendment to the Patent Law, which was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, in October 2020 and took effect in June 2021, according to Jin Wuwei, an official from the Ministry of Justice.