Penalty Standard for Selling Waste Oil in 2023

The penalty standards for selling waste oil in 2023 are as follows:

1. Selling gutter oil, if the circumstances are serious, constitutes the crime of illegal business operation, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income;

2. If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income, or his property shall be confiscated.

The acts of selling illegal oil are as follows:

1, alter, resell, lease, lend or illegally transfer the approval certificate of refined oil business in other forms;

2. Special users of refined oil products sell special oil products outside the system without authorization in violation of regulations;

3, in violation of the prescribed conditions and procedures, unauthorized construction, relocation, expansion of gas stations or oil depots;

4. Selling refined oil by doping, adulterating, passing fake products off as genuine ones, passing inferior products off as good ones or passing unqualified products off as qualified products, or selling refined oil that has been explicitly eliminated or banned by the state;

5. Selling smuggled refined oil;

6, unauthorized changes to the tanker or other ways to deduct the amount of oil;

7. Refined oil wholesale enterprises sell refined oil for business purposes to enterprises that do not have refined oil business qualifications; 8 refined oil retail enterprises purchase refined oil from enterprises that do not have the qualification for wholesale operation of refined oil;

9, beyond the scope of business activities;

10, which violates the requirements of relevant technical specifications;

1 1, other illegal acts stipulated by laws, regulations and rules.

To sum up, the punishment standard for selling waste oil depends on the situation and will be subject to relevant penalties and fines.

Legal basis:

Article 225 of the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

The crime of illegal business operation violates the provisions of the state and commits one of the following illegal business operations, disrupting the market order, and if the circumstances are serious, it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall only, be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times for illegal gains or confiscation of property:

(a) operating a franchise or monopoly commodity or other commodities whose operation is restricted by laws and administrative regulations without permission;

(2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations;

(three) without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, illegally engaged in securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in fund payment and settlement business;

(four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order.