Highlights of the Foreign NGO Management Law
2016-05-03
On April 28, 2016, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress adopted the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Management of Foreign Non-Governmental Organizations' Activities within Mainland China (hereinafter "Foreign NGO Law"), which will come into effect on January 1, 2017. After more than a year of soliciting views from the public and revisions since the publishing of the second draft of the Foreign NGO Management Law (hereinafter, "Second Draft") in April 2015, the Foreign NGO Law has attracted widespread attention from domestic and international non-governmental organizations (hereinafter "NGOs"), and forms another landmark piece of legislation governing NGO activities in addition to the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China, which was adopted on March 16, 2016.
The Foreign NGO Law consists of 54 articles in 7 chapters, and covers aspects from NGO registration and filing to the regulation of activities, facilitation measures, supervision and management, and legal responsibility. This article outlines some of the major provisions.