Laws of the People's Republic of China

No.5

Measures for the Administration of Laundry and Dyeing Industry is hereby announced and shall come into effect as of July 1, 2007 after it has been deliberated and passed at the 10th executive conference of the Ministry of Commerce on December 20, 2006 with the approval of State Administration for Industry and Commerce and State Environmental Protection Administration

Minister of the Ministry of Commerce Bo Xilai

Director of General Administration for Industry and Commerce Zhou Bohua

Director of State Environmental Protection Administration Zhou Shengxian

May 11, 2007

Measures for the Administration of Laundry and Dyeing Industry

Article 1

The Measures herein are formulated in accordance with the relevant state law, administrative regulations for the purpose of standardizing the behavior of laundry and dyeing service, maintaining the lawful rights and interests of operators and consumers, preventing environmental pollution, promoting the sound development of laundry and dyeing industry.

Article 2

The Measures herein shall apply to the laundry and dyeing operation within the territory of the People's Republic of China.

"Laundry and Dyeing" mentioned in the Measures herein refers to such operation activities as washing, ironing, dyeing, and weaving of clothes and washing, maintaining of leather-made products and clothes.

Article 3

The Ministry of Commerce shall undertake guidance, coordination, supervision and management of national laundry and dyeing industry, various local authorities in charge of commerce shall be responsible for the guidance, coordination, supervision and management of laundry and dyeing industry within its administrative region respectively.

The industrial and commercial authorities shall be responsible for regulating laundry and dyeing industry, supervising the quality of service products and business operation, and for investigating and punishing in light of the laws such acts as infringing the legal rights of interests of consumers.

The environmental protection authority shall undertake supervision and administration of such acts as affecting the environments in the process of opening and operating the laundry and dyeing enterprise, investigating and punishing in light of the laws environmental unlawful acts.

Article 4

To open washing and dyeing store and water washing factory shall accord with the relevant laws and standard requirement with respect to safety, sanitary, environmental protection, water saving, energy saving.

The enclosure dry-cleaning making with purifying, recycling and dry-cleaning solvent functions shall be used in the newly build, altered, or extended washing and dyeing stores.

The open dry-cleaning machine shall be phased out. The open dry-cleaning machine currently used shall be refitted to increase the compressor cooling recycling system, and forcefully recycle the dry-cleaning solvent; where the open petroleum derivative solvent dry-cleaning machine and drying machine is used, it shall be equipped with fire-proof and explosion-proof safety equipment.

Article 5

Environmental influence assessment shall be carried out upon the newly built, altered or extended washing and dyeing store and water washing factory and can be put into use after it has passed the inspection and collection by environmental authority.

The operator who undertakes washing and dyeing shall register lawfully and withdraw the business license.

The operator shall, within 60 days after having acquired the business license, handle the record in the same level commerce authority as the industrial and commercial administrative authority at the registration place.

Article 6

The operator shall have fixed business site, such equipments as washing, custody, and pollution prevention in par with its business scale and accord with the relevant national regulations.

Article 7

The washing and dyeing store shall not use such dry-washing solvents as does not accord with the relevant national regulations. The storage, usage and recycling site shall be equipped with leakage-proof condition, the dangerous chemical products shall accord with the relevant administration of dangerous chemical products.

The laundering factory shall be encouraged to use phosphor-free and low phosphor washing products.

Article 8

The discharge of pollutant shall meet the requirement of pollutant discharge in national or local regulations. The new discharge standard shall be implemented after it has been promulgated.

The residue, sewage containing dry-cleaning solvent generated in the process of dry cleaning shall be appropriately collected and handled. The dangerous wastes shall be lawfully entrusted to the units holding the business license of dangerous wastes for handling and disposal.

Where the sewage is discharged to urban sewage tubes to be treated together, it shall accord with the relevant water quality requirement by the sewage treatment factory. Where the factory hereof is equipped with sewage treatment equipment, it shall carry out innocuity treatment upon the generated sewage.

Such sewage as does mot accord with the standard shall not be discharged to river, lake, rain sewer, leakage pit, leakage well and etc.

The noise zone in the laundering and water-washing factories shall accord with the relevant rules of the Standard of Noise at Boundary of Industrial Enterprises GB12348-90.

Article 9

The operator shall formulate the system of safe production, environmental protection and sanitary management system in line with the requirement of laws and regulations, provide effective protective products to the staff and undertake regular safe, environmental protection, sanitary education training upon the staff.

Article 10

The employed staff shall observe professional ethics, abide by national laws and regulations, the washing and dyeing technical staff shall have the relevant professional skills, shall be encouraged to obtain the qualification certificate issued by the relevant national authority or the training qualification certificate issued by the relevant organizations and to work with the certificates hereof.

Article 11

The operator shall hang business license at the noticeable place of the business site and to expressly show service content, service price and complaint telephone number and etc.

Article 12

The operator shall follow the principle of good faith in the process of operation and give real and clear reply to the relevant questions raised by consumers, may not deceive and misguide consumers, may not conduct the following deceptions:

(1)

deceptive propaganda;

(2)

to undertake consumption default by using value card;

(3)

such deceptive acts as using "water washing", " iron" to work off dry wash;

(4)

to conceal the fact that the clothes have been damaged in the process of washing deliberately;

(5)

other deceptive acts against laws, and administrative regulations.

Article 13

The operator shall check seriously the received clothes and perform the following liabilities:

(1)

hint the consumer to check whether any carry-over is left and to confirm whether the attachment and decorates are complete;

(2)

hint the consumer the damageable, corruptive and expensive decorates or attachment to clarify service liabilities;

(3)

to explain to consumers new and old, dirty and clean, damage of clothes, quality of the cloth, performance variance and effect of washing and dyeing;

(4)

to inform consumers the clothes which is really difficult to wash and dye or have hard besmirch and to confirm the effect of washing and dyeing.

Article 14

The operator may undertake value-preserving washing in accordance with the willing of the consumers, i.e. the written washing agreement made by the operator and consumers about cost of washing, value-preserving cost, value-preserving amount and service content.

Where the clothes subject to value-preserving are damaged or lost, or directly undermine the quality of the original clothes after washing, the operator shall compensate in accordance with the preserving amount agreed with the consumer.

Article 15

The operator shall issue service bill to consumers when offering service. The content of the service bill shall include: name of clothes, quantity, color, damage or shortage, service content, price, date of delivery, period of custody, particulars agreed by both parties, means of dispute settlement.

Article 16

The operators shall act the service code of launder and dyeing industry, operation regulations and quality standard and appoint designated personnel to undertake quality inspection launder and dyeing.

Article 17

The operators shall standardize the clothes handing-over procedure to prevent loss or damage of clothes; dirty and clean clothes shall be stored and paid respectively.

Article 18

The textile products of the medical unit shall be washed and processed in the specialized factory zone, special washing equipment and be sanitized strictly.

The washed textile products after sanitation shall accord with the relevant national requirement.

Article 19

Where the washed clothes fail to meet the washing quality requirement or do not accord with the requirement reached with the consumers in advance or the clothes are damaged or lost because of the responsibilities of the operators, the operator shall reprocess it in light of different situation, refund the launder and dyeing fee or compensate the damage.

Where the quality of washed clothes fails to reach quality standard because the misguided washing mark or quality does not accord with national and professional standard requirement rather than it is the fault of the operator, the operator shall be exempted from the relevant responsibility.

Article 20

The authority in charge of commerce shall standardize and clean market order and promote the development of the industry herein by formulating industrial development program, promotion policy, standard and comprehensive coordination, promoting the industrial development.

The authorities in charge of commerce shall guide and support launder and dyeing quality appraisal committee to carry out quality appraisal work, guide the relevant professions to formulate solutions to consumption dispute and to maintain the lawful rights and interests of the operators and consumers.

Article 21

The Laundry and Dye Industry Association shall accept the business guidance of the authorities in charge of commerce to strengthen professional self-discipline, carry out such industrial promotion development works as faithful operation, organizing the implementation standard, providing information consultation, pursuing technical training, mediating service disputes, and reflecting the opinions and requirements of the operators.

Article 22

Should the operator violates the Measures herein which is prescribed in laws and regulations, the laws and regulations herein shall prevail; otherwise, the Ministry of Commerce, the industrial and commercial authority and the environmental authority shall, in accordance with Article 3 in the Measures herein£¬order the violators herein to rectify its acts, should the violators have illegal income, the violators herein may be fined below 3 times and the maximum fine shall not exceed 30,000 yuan, should the violators have no illegal income. The violators may be charged less than 10,000 yuan and may be announced.

Article 23

The authorities in charge of commerce in all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities may, in accordance with the Measures herein and the practical situation of the dyeing industry in its administrative region , enact the relevant implementation measures with the relevant authorities.

Article 24

The definitions of the terms mentioned in the Measures herein:

Enclosure dry-cleaning machine: such dry cleaning machines as use Tetrachloroethylene or petroleum derivative solvent as dry-cleaning solvent, equipped with solvent recycled cooling system, in the process of deodorization, the gas in machine and the work place don't exchange and waste gas doesn't discharge directly.

Open dry cleaning machine: such dry cleaning machines as use Tetrachloroethylene or petroleum derivative solvent as dry-cleaning solvent, use water-cooling recycling system to conduct deodorization by absorbing fresh air and discharging dry-cleaning solvent and gas mixture discharged from the machine before opening the in-out gate.

Dyeing: only the redyeing and dyeing of other colors in the washing and dyeing stores,

Article 25

The Measures herein shall come into effect as of July 1, 2007.