Match each China e-waste violation to the actor, correction order, fine range, and permit consequence.
The largest express fine in the State Council e-waste regulation is RMB 500,000 for treatment without qualification. Other breaches can bring correction orders, confiscation of illegal income, fines up to RMB 30,000 or RMB 50,000, and suspension, revocation, or recovery of a treatment certificate.
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China's e-waste sanctions depend on the actor and violation. A producer or importer can be fined for missing product information. A collector must send recovered covered waste to a qualified treatment enterprise unless the collector holds the treatment qualification. A qualified treatment enterprise can face fines and certificate consequences for operating outside its certificate, missing required changes, deficient monitoring or data, prohibited technology, or an unqualified downstream handoff. Pollution can also be penalized under separate solid-waste law, so the amounts below are not a ceiling on all environmental liability.
The State Council regulation applies to recovery, treatment, and related activities for discarded products listed in the national Waste Electrical and Electronic Product Treatment Catalogue. Treatment includes dismantling, extracting material for raw material or fuel, changing physical or chemical characteristics to reduce volume or hazardous constituents, and final placement in a compliant landfill. Repair, refurbishment, and resale after repair or refurbishment are excluded from this definition.
Collection and treatment are different roles. A collector without a treatment qualification must transfer recovered covered waste to a qualified treatment enterprise. An enterprise may treat covered waste only when its certificate covers the facility, waste category, equipment and operating parameters, and capacity involved. The State Council regulation separately provides for a province-approved centralized treatment site with required centralized pollution-control facilities; location in an industrial park alone does not establish that status.
The State Council regulation assigns different authorities and sanctions to different breaches. Market supervision authorities enforce the product-information rule. Ecology and environment authorities enforce treatment qualification, prohibited-technology, pollution, data, and monitoring provisions.
A fine stated as 'up to' an amount has no minimum in the cited provision. The RMB 50,000 to RMB 500,000 range applies specifically to treatment without qualification, not to every permit or recordkeeping breach.
Start with the legal entity, product or waste category, activity, facility, and date. Confirm which certificate version and legal provision applied on that date. Then match the facts to one provision instead of selecting the largest fine on the page. Preserve the authority's notice, the correction deadline, the response, and proof of completion because several certificate consequences turn on whether correction was timely or whether the case was serious.
For product-information cases, keep the product and instructions in the form supplied in China. For treatment cases, preserve the certificate version effective on the activity date, waste receipt and handoff records, treatment data, monitoring evidence, facility records, and correspondence with the ecology and environment authority.
Match the alleged violation to the correct actor and provision, then track the correction, evidence, fine, and certificate status.
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