An executive meeting of the State Council (China's Cabinet) hosted by Premier Wen Jiabao on January 16th released four independent decisions on amending the Regulation on the Implementation of the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China, the Regulation on the Protection of the Right to Network Dissemination of Information, the Regulation on the Protection of Computer Software and the Regulation of the People's Republic of China on Protection of New Varieties of Plants. The decisions with effective date on March 1st, 2013, are designed to amend provisions on determining the amount of fines in those four regulations in a bid to reinforce the law enforcement against intellectual property infringement and fake commodities.