The draft makes specific provisions for the responsibilities of various subjects, proposing that organs, state-owned enterprises and institutions should refine and improve the norms for official receptions, meetings, training and other official activities and meals, and strengthen management. Dining for official activities should be implemented standardized diet, scientific and rational arrangements for the number and form of meals.

The draft requires food service providers to take the initiative to prevent food waste reminders to consumers, in a conspicuous position to post or place anti-food waste signs or prompted by the service staff to explain, to guide consumers according to the needs of the right amount of food, shall not induce misleading consumers to order more than the amount of food to be reasonably determined by the number of meals, portion sizes, to provide a small portion of meals and other different specifications of the choice. Meanwhile, it is clear that food service providers can charge consumers who cause obvious waste the appropriate fees for handling food waste.

Expanded:

On the morning of December 22, 2020, the twenty-fourth meeting of the Standing Committee of the thirteenth National People's Congress (NPC) convened its first plenary session, and the anti-food waste law The draft was first brought to the meeting for consideration.

At the meeting, Xu Anbiao, deputy director of the Legal Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), made a statement on the draft anti-food waste law. The draft ****32 articles, respectively, on the principle of anti-food waste, requirements, various types of main responsibilities, etc. made provisions.

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