Sylvie Savoie's legal and international news

[Income Tax] – Certain foreign senior executives, scientific or technical directors may qualify as high-level foreign talents and as such are eligible for a tax subsidy on their personal income

Check your eligibility with Shunshan HE and Sylvie Savoie.

Applications for the year 2020 can be submitted between July and August 2021. Detailed evaluation criteria will be listed by future guidelines.

[Income Tax] – With the 1^st of January 2022 quickly approaching, many employees are concerned about the potential abolishment of the current regime that allows for some benefits-in-kind to be exempt from tax.

Will this regime actually be terminated as of 2022?

How should we prepare?

Sylvie Savoie and He Shunshan answer your questions and share with you our analysis of the situation.

[Patents] –  Introduced in 1985 and revised three times, after eight years of discussions, the fourth revision of the Patent Law of the Republic of China will come into effect on 1 June 2021.

Sylvie Savoie and Chen Xiaoyun present the main changes in this new version.

[Customs and international trade] –  All companies that process, load and offload, transport, store or sell all types of goods imported into China must apply the provisions of Notice 17, the Protocol on Covid-19 Prevention and Control Mechanisms applicable to manufacturers and trade operators of goods imported into China.

For cold-chain products, companies must refer to the even stricter rules provided for in Notice 245 (2020) and Notice 147 (2020).

The brief prepared by Sylvie Savoie and He Shunshan lists the measures to be implemented by manufacturers and trade operators of goods imported into China in order to prevent and control Covid-19 :

• controlling imported goods,
• screening people, and
• disinfecting facilities and the environment. 

[Cosmetics] –  A new Cosmetics Supervision and Administration Regulation simplifies the rules that apply to registering and controlling cosmetic products sold in China.

This newsletter presents the main changes affecting cosmetics manufactured outside of China and imported into China for marketing purposes.

The rules that apply to domestic cosmetics are slightly different to those that apply to imported cosmetics.

A cosmetic product is considered to be imported if the last manufacturing stage involving contact with the product itself is carried out outside of China. Inversely, if this final stage is carried out within China, the product is considered to be a domestic product.