Article 8 The administrations for information industry of the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central government may commend and reward the organizations and individuals with outstanding achievements in their work and relevant activities on the pollution control of electronic information products.

Chapter 2 Pollution Control of Electronic Information Products

Article 9 While designing electronic information products, an electronic information product designer shall adopt the plan of non toxin, harmless, or low-toxin, low-harm, easy degradation and convenient for recycle on the basis of meeting the requirements of the technology and complying with national standard or industrial standard for controlling the toxic and harmful substances or elements caused by electronic information products.

Article 10 While producing or manufacturing electronic information products, the manufacturer shall accord with national or industrial standards for controlling toxic or harmful substances or elements of electronic information products, using the materials, technology, and processes that have high utilization ratio, are recycled easily and good for environmental protection.

Article 11 The environment-friendly use period of electronic information products is determined by the manufacturer or importer. A manufacturer or an importer shall indicate the environment-friendly use period on the electronic information products they produced or imported. The environment-friendly use period should be indicated in the user' s manual if the indication can' t be made on the product due to the limitation of the size or function of the product.

The styles and methods of the indication prescribed in above paragraph shall be stipulated uniformly by the MII through the consultation with relevant competent administration of the State Council. The styles and methods of the indication shall accord with the national or industrial standards for controlling toxic or harmful substances or elements caused by electronic information products.

The corresponding industrial organizations may put forward guiding ideas on the environment-friendly use period of electronic information products according to the status of technological development.

Article 12 The MII encourages corresponding industrial organizations to submit their guiding ideas on the environment-friendly use period of electronic information products to the MII.

Article 13 A manufacturer or importer of electronic information products shall give indications on the toxic, harmful substances or elements contained in the electronic information products they put into the market, such as the names, contents, and on which part as well as the information about recycle of toxic or hazardous substances or elements, and recyclability, etc. The indications should be given in the user' s manual if they can' t be made on the product due to the limitation of the size or function of the product.

The style and method of the indications as prescribed in above paragraph shall be stipulated uniformly by the MII through consultation with the relevant competent administration of the State Council. The style and method shall accord with the national or industrial standard for controlling toxic, harmful substances or elements caused by electronic information products.

Article 14 An electronic information product manufacturer or importer shall use the materials that are non-toxin, non-harmful, easy degradation and convenient to be recycled according to the national or industrial standard for controlling toxic, harmful substances or elements caused by electronic information products while producing and using the packing for electronic information products.

An electronic information product manufacturer or importer shall give indications of the name of the packing material on the packing of the electronic information products they produced or imported. The indication shall be given in the user' s manual if the indication could not be given on the packing due to the limitation of the size and exterior surface.

The styles and methods of the indication as prescribed in above paragraph shall be stipulated uniformly by the MII through the consultation with relevant competent administration of the State Council. The style and method of the indication shall accord with the national or industrial standard for controlling toxic, harmful substances or elements caused by electronic information products.

Article 15 An electronic information product seller shall control the purchase channel strictly and shall not sell the electronic information products that do not accord with the national or industrial standard for controlling toxic or harmful substances or elements caused by electronic information products.

Article 16 Imported electronic information products shall accord with the national or industrial standard for controlling toxic or harmful substances or elements caused by electronic information products.

Article 17 The MII shall draw up the industrial standard for controlling toxic, harmful substances or elements caused by electronic information products through consultation with the SEPA.

The MII shall draft the national standard for controlling toxic, harmful substances or elements caused by electronic information products through the consultation with Standardization Administration of China (SAC).

Article 18 The MII shall draw up, readjust the key administered catalogue of pollution control of electronic information products through consultation with the NDRC, the MOC, the GAC, the SAIC, the AQSIQ, and the SEPA.

The key administered catalogue of pollution control of electronic information products consists of electronic information products lists, categories of toxic or harmful substances or elements restricted for use and the environment-friendly use period. The catalogue shall be revised annually according to the requirements of the actual circumstances and the level of scientific technical development.