How to punish illegal release of public weather forecast to the society?

those who illegally release public meteorological forecasts to the public are generally ordered by the relevant competent meteorological departments to make corrections according to their authority, given a warning and may be fined up to 5, yuan. Meteorological forecast includes public meteorological forecast, severe weather warning and meteorological disaster warning signal. Public meteorological forecast refers to the forecast of weather phenomena, clouds, wind direction, wind speed, temperature, humidity, air pressure, precipitation, visibility and other meteorological elements released to the public, as well as the forecast of space weather elements such as solar activity level, geomagnetic activity level, ionospheric activity level, space particle radiation environment, and middle and upper atmosphere state parameters.

according to the seriousness of the circumstances, illegal dissemination of weather forecast, severe weather warning and early warning signals to the society will be punished by ordering rectification, warning and fine.

the meteorological forecast shall be issued in a unified way. Meteorological offices subordinate to the competent meteorological departments at all levels shall, in accordance with their duties, release the meteorological forecast to the public through the channel of meteorological forecast release, and timely update and release the meteorological forecast according to the weather changes. No other organization or individual may release weather forecast to the society in any form.

Acts that should be punished:

1. Radio, television, newspapers, telecommunications and other media disseminate public weather forecasts and severe weather warnings to the society without using timely meteorological information provided by meteorological offices and stations affiliated to the competent meteorological departments.

2. Radio, television, newspapers, telecommunications and other media fail to broadcast or publish disastrous weather warnings and meteorological disaster warning signals as required.

3. spreading false or illegal disastrous weather information and meteorological disasters.

4. Media such as radio and television and communication networks such as fixed networks, mobile networks and the Internet do not use the real-time early warning signals provided by meteorological stations affiliated to the competent meteorological departments.

5. Disseminating weather forecast to the society without using the latest weather forecast provided by the meteorological station affiliated to the local competent meteorological department.

6. spreading false weather forecast.

7. Disseminating the weather forecast to the society without indicating the name of the issuing unit and the issuing time.

8. changing the contents and conclusions of the weather forecast without authorization, causing adverse social reactions or certain impacts.

Legal basis

Article 38 of the Meteorological Law of the People's Republic of China

In case of any of the following acts, the relevant competent meteorological department shall, within its authority, order it to make corrections, give it a warning and may concurrently impose a fine of less than 5, yuan:

(1) Unlawful release of public weather forecasts and severe weather warnings to the public;

(2) Radio, television, newspapers, telecommunications and other media disseminate public meteorological forecasts and severe weather warnings to the society without using timely meteorological information provided by meteorological offices and stations affiliated to the competent meteorological departments;

(3) The meteorological data used by the units engaged in atmospheric environmental impact assessment when conducting atmospheric environmental impact assessment of construction projects do not meet China's meteorological technical standards.