Chinanews.com, September 9th. According to the website of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, in order to further strengthen the supervision of environmental impact assessment and pollution discharge permits, and promote the institutionalization and normalization of supervision, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment recently issued the "Environmental Assessment and Pollution Permit Supervision Action Plan (2021- 2023)” (hereinafter referred to as the “Action Plan”) to deploy related work.

The ecological environment departments at all levels are required to attach great importance to, carefully deploy, formulate and organize the implementation of the regulatory action plan for the administrative region and the 2021 work plan.

Data map: Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Jia Tianyong

　　In the first half of the year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Quality Supervision of the Compilation of Environmental Impact Reports (Forms)", requiring all localities to take the Shenzhen Bay incident as a lesson and draw inferences from one another to carry out special inspections on the quality of environmental impact assessment documents.

Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has transferred a batch of clues to serious quality problems in environmental impact assessment documents discovered in the supervision of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Sichuan to the ecological environment departments of six provinces (regions), requiring investigation and evidence collection according to law. Existing illegal acts are investigated and dealt with in accordance with the law, and those suspected of crimes will also be transferred to judicial organs for criminal responsibility, continuing the quality-focused supervision posture, and strengthening deterrence and warnings against illegal activities such as fraud in the EIA.

Issued the "Notice on Strengthening Law Enforcement in the Cleanup and Rectification of Fixed Pollution Sources and Pollution Permit Issuance and Registration" to further standardize the methods and contents of law enforcement inspections in the cleanup and rectification of fixed pollution sources and the issuance and registration of permits.

　　Since the beginning of this year, spot checks have been carried out on the quality of clean-up and rectification work, involving more than 700,000 pollutant-discharging units; the implementation of the implementation reports submitted by 156,200 license-holding units before 2019 has been checked, and the annual and quarterly implementation reports have been urged to be submitted on time.

　　In order to further strengthen the supervision of environmental impact assessment and pollution discharge permits, and promote the institutionalization and normalization of supervision, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment recently issued the "Environmental Assessment and Pollution Permit Supervision Action Plan (2021-2023)" to deploy related work.

The ecological environment departments at all levels are required to attach great importance to, carefully deploy, formulate and organize the implementation of the regulatory action plan for the administrative region and the 2021 work plan.

　　The Action Plan requires that ecological and environmental departments at all levels should focus on prominent issues in key regions and key industries, focus on the prevention effectiveness of the environmental impact assessment system at the source, affect the full coverage of the fixed pollution source discharge permit, and the masses will report concentrated violations of laws and regulations, and severely investigate and deal with them in accordance with the law. , Severely crack down on and curb EIA fraud, shoddy, non-fulfilment of EIA requirements, unlicensed pollutant discharge, and non-licensed pollutant discharge.

Each locality should formulate a regulatory action plan for the administrative region for 2021-2023, and prepare and implement an annual work plan annually.

　　The "Action Plan" emphasizes that the ecological environment departments at all levels should carry out supervision around the two aspects of "quality" and "implementation."

For the environmental impact assessment of construction projects, carry out spot checks on the implementation of environmental assessment documents, environmental assessment documents and approval requirements, carry out spot checks on the legal compliance of environmental impact assessment projects on environmental impact registration forms; carry out spot checks on the implementation of key areas of planning environmental impact reports for planning environmental impact assessments; for pollution discharge Permit, conduct random checks on the issuance, registration and implementation of pollution permits.

　　The "Action Plan" pointed out that the ecological environment departments at all levels should insist on improving regional environmental quality as the core in their supervision work, combining random supervision and targeted supervision, and implementing classified disposal according to the degree of impact on the ecological environment.

The environmental impact assessment and pollution discharge permit management department and the ecological environment comprehensive law enforcement department should coordinate and cooperate to promote the connection between examination and approval and administrative law enforcement to form a combined force of supervision.

　　The Action Plan requires that the ecological environment departments at all levels should strengthen credit management and information disclosure in their supervision work, and promptly report typical illegal cases such as failure to implement environmental assessment requirements, unlicensed sewage discharge, and non-licensed sewage discharge. The situation is serious and the impact is bad. Public exposure on government websites or mainstream media.

Relevant units and personnel with problems shall be strictly investigated and dealt with in accordance with laws and regulations.

　　The "Ministry of Ecology and Environment 2021 Annual Environmental Assessment and Pollution Permit Supervision Work Plan" was released simultaneously, clarifying the annual key supervision work of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.