Pinduoduo is under the jurisdiction of the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the industry and commerce and market regulatory authorities are also in charge of Pinduoduo.
1. The supervision departments of Pinduoduo are the industrial and commercial and market supervision departments;
2. The supervision of Pinduoduo platform is mainly the supervision of the Market Supervision Bureau, and the e-commerce law stipulates that it involves platforms or networks The provider of a trading platform is always responsible for the market supervision department of the place where the parent company of the platform is registered. The State Administration for Market Regulation attaches great importance to this and has required platform companies such as Taobao and Pinduoduo to fulfill their platform main responsibilities in accordance with the law and immediately deal with online stores that sell false inspection and testing reports on the platform.
The State Administration for Market Regulation is an agency directly under the State Council and is at the ministerial level. The brands of the National Certification and Accreditation Administration and the National Standardization Administration will be retained externally.
What measures can the Industrial and Commercial Bureau take to punish Pinduoduo?
The Industrial and Commercial Bureau investigates Pinduoduo’s infringement of trademark exclusive rights and can take the following measures to punish:
1. Order to stop the infringement;
2. Impose a fine;
3. Mediate on the amount of compensation for infringement of trademark exclusive rights.
To sum up, the State Administration for Market Regulation, industry and commerce and market supervision departments supervise Pinduoduo, and Pinduoduo will be punished in accordance with the law.
Legal basis:
Article 9 of the "Interim Provisions on Administrative Punishment Procedures for Market Supervision and Management"
E-commerce platform operators and those who use self-built websites and other networks The illegal acts of e-commerce operators who sell goods or provide services shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the market supervision and management department at or above the county level in their place of residence.
The illegal activities of operators on the platform shall be under the jurisdiction of the market supervision and management department at or above the county level in the place where they actually operate. If the market supervision and management department at or above the county level in the place where the e-commerce platform operator is domiciled first discovers clues to the violation or receives complaints or reports, it may also take jurisdiction.
Article 10
Administrative penalties shall be imposed on the use of radio, film, television, newspapers, periodicals, Internet and other mass media to publish illegal advertisements, and shall be supervised by the market where the advertisement publisher is located The management department has jurisdiction. If the market supervision and management department in the place where the advertisement publisher is located has difficulty in regulating advertisers and advertising operators in other places, the illegal situations of the advertisers and advertising operators may be transferred to the market supervision and management department in the places where the advertisers and advertising operators are located for handling.
For Internet advertising violations, if the market supervision and management department where the advertiser or advertising operator is located first discovers illegal clues or receives complaints or reports, they may also take jurisdiction.
Administrative penalties for advertisers who publish illegal Internet advertisements on their own will be under the jurisdiction of the market supervision and management department where the advertiser is located.