"Interim Provisions on the Handling of Violations in Scientific and Technological Activities" will be implemented in September

On July 31, the Ministry of Science and Technology published the Interim Regulations on the Handling of Violations in Scientific and Technological Activities (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") through its official website, which defines various violations of scientific and technological activities and clarifies specific measures.

The "Regulations" will come into effect on September 1, 2020, and apply to the handling of violations of relevant units and personnel in the course of carrying out relevant scientific and technological activities, including: entrusted management agencies and their staff, implementation of scientific and technological activities Units, scientific and technical personnel, scientific and technological activity consulting and review experts, third-party scientific and technological service agencies and their staff.

Among them, the violations of the scientific and technological activity implementation unit, including concealing, accommodating, sheltering, conniving or participating in the illegal activities of the personnel of the unit; subcontracting or subcontracting scientific research tasks in violation of the regulations without approval; interception, misappropriation, misappropriation, and misappropriation , Transfer and privately distribute financial scientific research funds; carry out scientific and technological activities that endanger national security, harm social public interests, and endanger human health.

For scientific and technical personnel, 12 types of behaviors are included in the category of violations, such as providing false materials in the declaration, review, implementation, acceptance, supervision and inspection, evaluation and evaluation of scientific and technological activities, and implementing “greeting” and “walking relations”. ”And other acts of entrustment; deliberately exaggerating the research foundation, academic value or technical value, social and economic benefits of scientific and technological achievements, concealing technical risks, causing negative effects or financial capital losses; plagiarizing, plagiarizing, embezzling, tampering with others’ scientific and technological achievements, and fabricating scientific and technological achievements Achievements, violation of intellectual property rights of others, etc.; violation of scientific and technological ethics standards, etc.

Adopt fraud and other improper means to obtain qualifications for consultation, review, evaluation, evaluation, supervision and inspection; guide and lobby other experts or staff, and affect the process and results of consultation, review, evaluation, evaluation, supervision and inspection, etc., are included in science and technology Violations of activity consulting review experts.

At the same time, the "Regulations" clarify that, depending on the subject and the nature of the violation, corresponding measures can be taken separately or in combination: warning; termination or cancellation of scientific and technological activities supported by financial funds; recovery of balances Funds, recovery of allocated financial funds and illegal income; recorded in the database of serious untrustworthy conduct in scientific research...

It is worth noting that if violations involve core key tasks, binding targets or indicators of scientific and technological activities, and lead to the stagnation of relevant scientific and technological activities, serious deviations from agreed targets, or particularly serious negative impacts or financial losses, the violation will be Units and individuals cancel relevant qualifications for more than 5 years until permanent.