China News Service, Beijing, July 17 (Reporter Zhang Su) From July to November this year, Chinese prosecutors, police, and ecological environment departments jointly launched activities to severely crack down on hazardous waste environmental violations and crimes. 3. Typical environmental pollution crime cases, rectify a batch of enterprises with irregular management.
The reporter learned the news from the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China on the 17th. According to the "Notice on Severely Cracking Down on Environmental Illegal and Criminal Activities of Hazardous Wastes" jointly issued by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, relevant departments will severely punish a number of major environmental violations and criminal cases involving hazardous waste; eliminate illegal collection, utilization, and dumping 1. Dispose of hazardous waste chains and crack down on the arrogance of criminals.
This notice pointed out that the prosecutors, the police, and the ecological environment department should sort out the outstanding problems found in the case of complaints, reports, letters and visits, administrative penalties, as well as the special treatment of hazardous waste in 2019 and the ongoing three-year national special treatment of hazardous waste. , To increase the use of remote law enforcement methods.
Hazardous wastes refer to wastes with hazardous characteristics that are listed in the national hazardous waste list or identified according to the hazardous waste identification standards and identification methods prescribed by the state. China first issued and implemented the National Hazardous Waste List in 1998, and the latest revision was in 2019.
The relevant person in charge of the First Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate stated that the procuratorial organs at all levels must control the facts, evidence, the application of law, and procedures in accordance with the law for arrests or transfers for review and prosecution. 1. Criminal suspects with prosecution conditions promptly approve the arrest, file a public prosecution, and supervise the legality of the investigation. (Finish)