Legal basis: Guiding Opinions on Identification of Normative Documents (for Trial Implementation)
I. Characteristics of normative documents
Normative documents refer to documents that are formulated and published by administrative organs at all levels or organizations authorized by laws and regulations to manage public affairs in accordance with legal authority and procedures, and are universally binding on citizens, legal persons and other organizations (hereinafter referred to as "administrative counterparts") and can be applied repeatedly. Its characteristics mainly include:
(a) the formulation subject is an administrative organ or an organization authorized by laws and regulations to manage public affairs (hereinafter referred to as the "administrative organ");
(two) according to the legal authority and administrative legal relationship, according to the official document norms and procedures, and as the basis of administrative management;
(3) The management object is an unspecified administrative counterpart;
(four) the content has an impact on the rights and obligations of the non-specific administrative counterpart, and the content of the rights and obligations is certain, universally binding and repeatedly applied;
(five) the situation that the administrative counterpart needs to know and abide by.