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Decision of the State Council on several issues concerning environmental protection.

Pays/Territoire
Chine
Type du document
Miscellaneous
Date
1996
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Source d'origine
Foreign-Related Laws and Regulations of the P.R.C., CD-rom, Bureau of Legislative Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
Sujet
Eau
Mot clé
Eaux continentales Déchets non-ménagers Normes de qualité de l'eau Eaux usées/déversement Pollution des eaux douces Déchets dangereux Eau à usage industriel Gestion des resources en eau douce Pollution par les hydrocarbures Politique/planification Lutte contre la pollution Système d'alerte précoce EIA
Aire géographique
Asie, Asie et Pacifique, East Asian Seas, Asie Orientale, Pacifique Nord, Pacifique Nord Occidental
Résumé

This Decision establishes the system of maximum quantity control and the verification procedure for control over discharge of major pollutants, according to law, where attempts to control discharged water pollutants within prescribed standards still fail to meet national prescribed standards for water environment quality. The Decision aims also at strengthening the prevention and control on water pollution in other rivers, lakes, reservoirs and coastal waters. To these ends, the Decision stresses the importance of specifying objectives and adopting procedures through which administrative officials shall be held responsible for environmental quality and of adopting a national and systemic maximum quantity index of major pollutants and a practice of regular publication thereof. According to the above-mentioned objectives, the competent local authorities shall set local objectives and measures for the improvement of environmental quality, and should submit them to authorities at higher levels for the record. Furthermore, the decision-makes provisions for the performance of strict checks on all large-, medium- or small-sized construction projects either at the stage of examination for approval or at the stage of acceptance after completion. Further provisions concern the measures to be taken in case of construction projects which have already been arbitrarily started or put in production or use without going through the procedure of environmental impact assessment, or construction projects already accepted after inspection but which fail to steadily keep to national or local standards on discharge of pollutants after being put in production or use. By the date of September 30, 1996, the competent authorities for environmental protection at all territorial levels shall ban all paper-making factories, leather processing plants, dyestuff making plants, on the basis of their annual output, and all enterprises that coke or refine sulphur through backward approaches known as "pits", "Pingxiang Style", "High Pot" and "Open Air Style". Within the above-mentioned time limit, the following enterprises shall be ordered to close down or stop production: plants that are using indigenous methods to refine arsenic, mercury, or smelt lead, zinc, or extract oil, or pan gold, or to make agricultural chemicals, bleach and dye, make electroplates, or make asbestos products or radioactive products. In case such enterprises have not been banned, or do not close down or stop production within the prescribed time limit, concerned principal leading officials of local people's governments and enterprise managers shall be investigated for legal liability. Further provisions concern; (a) preserving ecological balance, and protecting and rationally exploiting natural resources; (b) arrangements for early warning of and emergency measures against pollution accidents and calamities; (c) perfecting economic policies on environment and effectively increasing investment in environmental protection; (d) conducting environmental scientific research and developing environmental protection industries; (e) strengthening publicity and education.

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