Article 1.7: Threshold for Initiating CriminalEnforcement 1. The Parties shall eliminate any requirement that the holder of atrade secret establish actual losses as a prerequisite to initiation of acriminal investigation for misappropriation of a trade secret. 2. China shalla) as an interim step, clarify that “great loss” as a threshold for criminalenforcement under the trade secret provision in the relevant law can be fullyshown by remedial costs, such as those incurred to mitigate damage to businessoperations or planning or to re-secure computer or other systems, andsubstantially lower all the thresholds for initiating criminal enforcement; and(b) as a subsequent step, eliminate in all applicable measures any requirementthat the holder of a trade secret establish actual losses as a prerequisite toinitiation of a criminal investigation for misappropriation of a trade secret.