1. Registration Needed for Overseas Suppliers of Scrap Material Imports
   Implementation Details of the Registration Scheme Concerning Overseas Suppliers of Waste Material Imports, promulgated and implemented by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), make it mandatory for foreign enterprises, including those in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, which export waste material to the mainland to apply for registration with AQSIQ. Those which fail to obtain registration will not be allowed to export waste material to China, nor will their requests for inspection and quarantine be accepted by the departments concerned. This new rule is believed to ensure that imported wastes will comply with the environmental protection standards as well as other mandatory requirements and technical regulations of the state.
   The following are the prerequisites for overseas companies wishing to apply for registration according to the implementation
details:
*The company is in legal operation in the country or region where it is located;
*The company has a permanent office or processing workplace and its business is of a considerable scale;
*The company should be familiar with the laws and regulations concerning environmental protection technology in China, and the associated environmental protection standards; it must also be equipped with the necessary facilities and inspection capabilities;
*The company should implement quality assurance or environmental quality administration systems, such as ISO14000 certification, or provide corresponding accreditation certification;
*The company must have a relatively stable supply source over which it exercises environmental protection quality control measures;
   No major safety, hygienic and environmental protection quality problems have been found in the company in the past three years.
   After pre-evaluation, applicants found to comply with the requirements will be continued and enter into the evaluation step. AQSIQ will then form an evaluatoin group to assess the applicants.

2. Applicant enterprise needs to submit all following 17 kinds of paper documents:
Note: All documents must be in Chinese or in Chinese/Foreign Language bilingual version. The official seal and legal owner's signature of the applicant enterprise must be born on every document. Photocoies are invalid.
Below are the seventeen documents required to submit to the chinese government agency. These documents in general can be divided into three different types: Business description, quality/environment control measures, and statement to abide the requlations of China.

1）. Application Form for Provisional Registration of Overseas SupplierEnterprises of Imported Scrap Materials
2）. Copy of usiness registration documents.
3). Document on environmental management system or certificate onenvironmental management system
4). Document on the source of supply and their environmental protection control measures
5). A general description and relevant documents on thesafety, hygiene, environmental protection, and quality of the scrap
materials exported to China in the past three years
6). Organizational structure, responsibilities of departments
7). An undertaking to abide by the environmental protection regulations, applicable environmental protection control standards and therelevant laws and regulations of China;
8). Information on permanent office and processing locations (floor plans);
9). Certificates relating to type, quantity and environmental quality of
supplies;
10). Quality control management system and relevant technical personnel(including control over dangerous waste, contaminated waste andrejection of un-qualified products);
11). Verification and acceptance system for raw materials;
12). Measurements and equipment calibration
13). Rules on control of substandard products;
14). Staff training program;
15). Undertaking on control over environmental quality of goods(undertaking on environmental control over merchandise suppliers);
16). Undertaking on bearing the cost incurred on the disposal of un-qualified goods inside China.
17). Documents of Chinese environmental protection control standard,prohibited importing catalogue, dangerous scrap catalogue.


3. If any one of following situations happened, the registration application will be denied:

4. Registration Evaluation and Approval:
Within 30 days after receiving the registration application materials in paper format, AQSIQ will make the decision whether or not to accept the application:

5. Follow-up Administration:
The registration certificate will be valid for three years. The applicant could apply to AQSIQ for renewal at least three months before its expiration date.

6. Renewing Registration:
Application for renewal can be submitted on the AQSIQ's official website http://scrap.eciq.cn/ electronically, and the paper documents must be submitted to AQSIQ within 15 days after online submission.