6.5 Governmental Powers and Responsibilities in Regulating Consumer Goods and Services

1. The Department of Commerce, Supplies and Consumer Protection (DoCSCP) — the lead enforcer: the market monitoring (the price, the weight, the quality checks); the inspectors' powers (the entry, the sample-taking, the seizure); the complaints' hearing (the settlement- and-order powers); the penalties' administration. 2. The Market Monitoring Committees — the central, provincial and local faces (the federal era's three-level machinery — the central, provincial, local coordination). 3. The Ministry's faces — the policy, the rules-making (the regulations' power), the coordination. 4. The local governments' roles — the municipal market surveillance (the federal allocation — the consumer protection's concurrent faces). 5. The standards' bodies — the Bureau's standards-and-certification (the NS machinery). 6. The sectoral regulators — the food (the Department of Food Technology — the DFTQC's faces), the drugs (the Department of Drug Administration), the electricity-and-telecom faces (the utilities' duties).