The draft governs the actions of all monopolies in China, both domestic and foreign, and, as it stands, an anti-monopoly commission will be established under the State Council.

But the responsibility for enforcement will be divided among the Ministry of Commerce, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the National Development and Reform Commission.

But Wang Xiaoye, Sheng Jiemin and Shi Jianzhong, three legal experts who participated in the legislation, all oppose enforcement by the multi-department system.

"No country in the world appoints so many administrative departments to enforce a law to protect market competition," Wang, economic law director of the law institute under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told China Daily.

Without a unified and authoritative law enforcement organization, she added, the anti-monopoly law will be difficult to enforce, and "the issue is a key point in the legislation."

Shi, a professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, said most countries have a unified anti-monopoly law enforcement organization. One notable exception is the United States, which authorizes the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to do the work.

He said he hoped that the anti-monopoly commission under the State Council would handle the law's enforcement.

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