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Gov’t asks for drastic measures on environmental protection

28/09/2016

The PM requested that environmental protection must be a regular task in national development; and a common responsibility of the whole political system, business community, and people. Investment attraction must take into consideration of environmental protection and avoid outdated technologies. Localities were asked to rashly issue and implement resolutions and action plans on environmental protection.

Perfecting legal system
The PM assigned the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) to work with the Ministry of Justice and relevant agencies to propose and amend regulations and laws on environmental protection, natural resources, tax, budget, investment, construction, science, technology, and energy in 2017.
New guiding decrees on enforcement of the Law on Environmental Protection will be reviewed, amended and supplemented with a view to surmounting loopholes on state management, technical measures, supervision of waste discharging; technical standards.
The  MoNRE, the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI), the Ministry of Science and Technology were asked to build a new system of environmental criteria on production and technical attraction for investment attraction and ratification. 
Preventing outdated technological projects
The Government chief assigned ministries, agencies, and localities to review and prevent projects which apply backward technologies and are vulnerable to environmental protection.
The MoPI is in charge of researching the percentage of investment on environmental treatment.

General investigation on waste discharging
The MoNRE was asked to investigate subjects with over 200m3 of waste discharging daily nationwide; assess environmental impacts and environmental protection measures at large-scale projects which are vulnerable to environmental pollution in 2017.
The ministry was requested to work with relevant ministries and local authorities to conduct general investigations to evaluate and classify sources of waste discharging; build a national database on waste in 2018.
The Ministry of Public Security and the MoNRE were assigned to propose solutions to strengthen operation of environmental police forces to combat environmental crime and punish serious cases.

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