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To: Bill DeMarco who wrote (24996)	11/9/1997 12:46:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Hong Kong to licence disc production equipment....................... (07/November/1997) Hong Kong, November 7 (CNS) -- A revised Import and Export (General) Ordinance has been issued by the Trade Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government. This covers the licensing of disc production equipment and, if approved by the Provisional Legislature, it will become effective on December 29. The Information Service said the revised decree was gazetted today and would be presented to the Provisional Legislature next Wednesday, to be approved should no objections be raised by legislators. A spokesman for the Trade and Industry Bureau said the proposed licensing was one of the measures adopted by the SAR government to stop Hong Kong being known as place for pirated discs. Customs and Excise Department officials will also be helped by the decree by tracing the origin and destination of imported disc production equipment and they may also more easily collect intelligence on suspect activities. It will be illegal to import or export disc production equipment without a valid licence, the decreed states, and penalties will be a maximum fine of HK$2m and seven years imprisonment. The spokesman said a simple and direct licence had been worked out and the application was free of charge. --end item CNS 1107-07