[vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”50″ css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”50″ padding_bottom=”50″ css_animation=””][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1517373139965{background-image: url(http:\/\/asiallians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Picture1.png?id=18554) !important;}”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Insurance Agency and Assessment Business Open to Foreign Investments<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_bottom=”15″ css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (“CBIRC”) issued two circulars on June 19, 2018 and both of them take effect immediately, allowing foreign investors to engage in the insurance agency and assessment business.<\/p>\n According to the circular, insurance agencies established by overseas insurance agencies which have conducted insurance agency business for over 3 years, or by China-based foreign-invested insurance agency are eligible to apply for conducting insurance agency business. The business scope and market access criteria shall be subject to provisions in relation to professional insurance agents.<\/p>\n Moreover, business registration, in conformity with Regulations on Insurance Assessors, will be open to insurance assessors established in China by overseas accessors which have engaged in insurance assessment business for over 3 years, or by China-based foreign-invested insurance company conducting business for over 3 years in China.<\/p>\n (http:\/\/bxjg.circ.gov.cn\/web\/site0\/tab5168\/info4111621.htm<\/a>http:\/\/bxjg.circ.gov.cn\/web\/site0\/tab5168\/info4111620.htm<\/a>)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”50″ padding_bottom=”50″ css_animation=””][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1517373139965{background-image: url(http:\/\/asiallians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Picture1.png?id=18554) !important;}”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]SPC Clarifies the Establishment of International Commercial Courts<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_bottom=”15″ css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Recently the Supreme People\u2019s Court (\u201cSPC\u201d) has issued the Provisions on Several Issues concerning the creation of International Commercial Courts (the \u201cProvisions\u201d), which will come into force on July 1, 2018.<\/p>\n According to the Provisions, the SPC will organize the committee of International commercial experts and build up a one-stop dispute resolution platform (\u201cone-stop platform\u201d), joined by international commercial courts and qualified international commercial mediation and arbitration institutions. The international commercial courts are permanent tribunal of the SPC, and will be the court of the first instance for cases where<\/p>\n 1) The parties to an international commercial dispute agreed to be subject to the jurisdiction of SPC for the first instance and the amount of subject shall be no less than RMB 300 million;<\/p>\n 2) international commercial cases in the jurisdiction of high people\u2019s courts for the first instance are approved to be heard by the commercial courts;<\/p>\n 3) the international commercial case for the first instance at issue is of nationwide significant influence;<\/p>\n 4) the parties apply for arbitration preservation, revoking or enforcing an arbitral award made by an arbitration institution in the one-stop platform;<\/p>\n 5) other international commercial cases that SPC regarded appropriate to be assigned to the international commercial courts<\/p>\n Concerning the admissibility, the courts will hear the cases concerning the trade and\/or investment disputes between civil equal parties, excluding the case of which either or both parties are States. The provisions also introduce the qualifications of judges, trial mechanism and ways to ascertain foreign laws.<\/p>\n The SPC has appointed eight judges for the international commercial court and has set up NO.1 international commercial court in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, and N0.2 in Xi\u2019an, Shaan xi province, starting the office from June 29, 2018.<\/p>\n (http:\/\/www.court.gov.cn\/fabu-xiangqing-104602.html<\/a> [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_top=”50″ padding_bottom=”50″ css_animation=””][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1517373139965{background-image: url(http:\/\/asiallians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Picture1.png?id=18554) !important;}”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Measures for the Record-filing of the Incorporation and Change of Foreign-invested Enterprises Revised<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” padding_bottom=”15″ css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Ministry of Commerce has recently issued the Decision on Revising the Interim Administrative Measures for the Record-filing of the Incorporation and Change of Foreign-invested Enterprises which has become effective from June 30, 2018 (the \u201cRevision\u201d).<\/p>\n The revisions are mainly as follows:<\/p>\n 1) the agent or representative who file the application of incorporation can be entrusted by the board of directors of the foreign-invested companies limited by shares, in addition to previously by all the initiators; This is to make the Revision consistent with article 13 of Interim Provisions concerning the Establishment of Foreign-invested Companies Limited by Shares (Revised in 2015), which regulates that the board of directors is entitled to submit the application of establishment to the Registration Authorities.<\/p>\n 2) for incorporation of a new foreign-invested enterprise, record-filing with the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and registration with the Administration for Industry and Commerce (AIC) will be unified into one step. When filing online registration application with the competent AIC, the online AIC system will request the agents or representatives to fill-in the record-filing information requested by MOFCOM, MOFCOM will then receive such record-filing information transmitted from the AIC. This also applies to the Foreign-invested Enterprises changed into by acquisition, merger, or any other means; and<\/p>\n 3) for a new foreign strategic investor investing a foreign invested listed company, it can submit recordation application in 30 days after security registration with the competent securities registration and settlement institution. The provisions of foreign strategic investors investing a non-foreign invested listed company for recordation and obligation for recordation of obliged disclosing information change have been deleted.<\/p>\n The revision is an implementation of \u201cOne set of forms, One window\u201d to further facilitate foreign investment in China.<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.chinacourt.org\/article\/detail\/2018\/07\/id\/3378767.shtml<\/a>)<\/p>\n