Guidelines for compliance of online trading platform charging behavior

On May 25th, in order to standardize the online trading platform to collect commissions, commissions, membership fees, technical service fees, information service fees, marketing promotion fees and other charging behaviors from the platform operators, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the platform operators, and promote the healthy and orderly development of the platform economy, recently, the State Administration of Market Supervision studied and drafted the "Online Trading Platform Charging Behavior Compliance Guidelines (exposure draft) ", and publicly solicited opinions from the public. The "Guidelines" mentioned that the platform charging behavior should be standardized. It is clear that the platform should reasonably formulate charging standards, improve charging rules, fee publicity and other institutional mechanisms, strictly fulfill the commitment to reduce and exempt fees, carefully evaluate the necessity of collecting deposits, and carry out promotion services in accordance with the principle of equality and volunteerism to protect the platform operators' right to know and choose. At the same time, eight kinds of unreasonable charging behaviors, such as repeated charging, only charging without service, and passing on the expenses that should be borne by the platform itself, were clarified.