According to Article 10 of the act, corporations and firms of the same trade are the initiators of commercial groups, they submit requisition along with scroll of initiators, copies of registered business licenses to competent authorities for approval; then initiators convene preparatory meetings, establishing preparatory committee, the division of the same trade is as per the division criteria of particular commercial groups.

The tasks of preparatory committee are as follows:
1. Investigate the detailed situations of corporations and firms within its governing district.
2. Enact enrollment procedures for members and publicly absorb members.
3. Draw out the draft of articles of commercial trade council.
4. Censor the qualification of members and member representatives and compile scroll.
5. Draw out annual work plan and annual budget book.
6. Draw out overtures.
7. Raise and prepay money for establishing commercial trade council, and report the expenses in inaugural meeting for retroactive admission.
8. Decide the date and locale of inaugural meeting.
9. Select or appoint the chairman or members of the presidium of inaugural meeting.
The execution of the tasks mentioned from subparagraph 3 to subparagraph 6 of pre-paragraph should be submitted to competent authorities for review before the inaugural meeting.
The preparatory committee should finish all the preparatory work within 3 months since the day of its existence, and one more month may be allowed with application to and approval from competent authorities under special circumstances.

Within 15 days after establishment, commercial trade council should submit its articles along with the scroll of its members and member representatives, resumes of its staff to competent authorities for review, and the competent authorities should inform purpose enterprise competent authorities.
The competent authorities should issue registration certificate and seal to the commercial trade council whose submitted information complies with the abovementioned regulation.

In applying to join in the commercial trade council, a corporation or firm should first fill in an application form and submit it along with its registered business license in two folds to the relevant commercial trade council, then the council shall check the submitted materials; after approval of the council, the commercial trade council then reports the newly absorbed member to competent authorities for future reference.

Corporations and firms established in accordance with corporation act or commercial registration act that have not started business should be suspended to join in the commercial trade council.

Purpose enterprise competent authorities should report its issuing business licenses to approved corporations and firms to the local commercial associations these corporations and firms belong to.

Commercial trade council should issue membership certificates to its member, indicating names of member corporations and firms, names of principals, enrollment date, addresses of corporations and firms, issuing date of membership certificates; Commercial trade council also issues representative certificates to member representatives, indicating each of the member representative’s name, date of birth, native place, gender, enrollment date, place of work, position, household’s address, corresponding address, I.D number with a mug shot of two inches sticking on the certificate.

The membership of corporations and firms is to be cancelled with adoption of the council if they have the situations mentioned in Article 14 of the act, then commercial group submits the cancellation of membership to competent authorities and purpose enterprise competent authorities respectively for future reference.

In addition to registration under circumstances of particular changes, commercial trade council should make a member registration book and a member representative registration book respectively, and it should check the registration books one month before the calling of general meeting every year so that it may revise the registration books accordingly; commercial trade council should make a scroll of members and a scroll of member representatives respectively and send them to competent authorities for check and reference 15 days before the calling of general meeting.

Commercial trade council should inform its members of the calling of general meeting one month beforehand, so that members may declare whether they will continue to appoint the former representatives or appoint new representatives twenty days before calling of the general meeting, those who don’t declare in time automatically abandon the right of appointing former and new representatives. Both the information and declaration should be made in written form.

If commercial trade council finds out that member representatives have any of the situations mentioned in Article 17 of the act, it should report the representatives to council to cancel their representative qualification, at the same time, commercial trade council inform its members to reappoint new member representatives.

The calculation of entrusted member representatives mentioned in Article 19 of the act should be subject to entrusted member representatives not exceeding half of the attending member representatives in sequence of signing in, the vicegerent right of entrusted member representatives who sign in after the number of entrusted member representatives has exceed half of the number of the attending member representatives in sequence of signing in is invalid.

The office term of directors and supervisors mentioned in Article 23 of the act should be calculated from the day of the first meeting of council.
Meeting of council should be convened within 15 days after the closing of general meeting(those approved by competent authorities are not subject this provision).

The reappointment of directors and supervisors mentioned in Article 23 of the act refers to that the number of reappointed directors and supervisors should not exceed half of the total number of directors and supervisors stipulated in articles of commercial trade council, and the reappointments are to be decided by means of votes.

Within 15 days after directors and supervisors assume office, commercial trade council should compile resumes of its head of directors, directors, standing directors, supervisors, standing supervisors, backup directors, backup supervisors and secretary general in three folds, and submit these resumes to competent authorities for review in accordance with Paragraph 1, Article 7 of the act.

The vacancy or absence of directors and supervisors are to be filled by backup directors and supervisors within one month. When no backup directors and supervisors are available and the number of directors and supervisors exceed two thirds of the stipulated number in articles, no by-election is necessary.

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Directors and supervisors of commercial trade council should not hold the posts of working staff of commercial trade council.

Commercial trade council should inform the representatives of its members of general meeting and report to competent authorities to ask for personnel to attend the meeting in accordance with Article 28 of the act, declaring the type, date, locale of meeting, submitting agenda of the meeting; when the meeting affairs concerns purpose enterprise, commercial trade council may report to purpose enterprise competent authorities to ask for personnel to attend the meeting.
The relevant prescriptions in article 28 of the act also apply to meetings of council or board of supervisors.

Commercial trade councils hold preliminary meetings in accordance with Article 30 of the act, the division of district and number of group representatives to be elected from each group member are to be adopted councils and reported to competent authorities for future reference.

Within 15 days after the closings of meetings, commercial trade council should send minutes of the meetings (general meeting, meeting of council and meeting of board of supervisors) to members, competent authorities and purpose enterprise competent authorities respectively for review.
If other meetings concern the interests or benefits of particular members, those members should be informed to attend.

The head of directors is the chairman of general meeting of commercial trade council, or three to five of directors, supervisors, standing directors and supervisors are to be elected to form a presidium and hold the post of chairman in turn.

The number of member representatives of general meeting of commercial trade council is calculated according to the number of member representatives exclusive of those in punishment of authorities suspension.

The head of directors or convener of board of supervisors who don’t convene relevant meetings punctually in accordance with Article 31 of the act for two times are considered to have resigned, their posts of head of directors or convener of board of supervisors are relieved immediately and new head of directors and convener are to be elected or appointed.

Directors and supervisors of commercial trade council should attend meetings of council and board of supervisors in person, no substitute by others is allowed, two consecutive leaves are considered to be one absence (except for leave of absence to attend to public affairs), those absent from two consecutive meetings are considered to have resigned, and the vacancies are to be filled by backup directors and supervisors.

When the meeting affairs or operations of commercial trade council concern the authorities of directors and supervisors, it should be conferred in meeting attended by both more than half of the directors and supervisors respectively, the decisions shall take effect only when approved by more than half of the directors and more than half of supervisors attending the meeting.

The membership dues mentioned in Article 34 of the act refers to the perennial membership dues.

corporations and firms joining in more than two commercial trade councils should calculate by itself and pay their perennial membership dues after reporting it to the relevant commercial trade councils and getting approval from the councils in accordance with Article 34 of the act and the standards of relevant commercial trade councils.