Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 15th, report title: You can't be willful in the future!

Experts explain in detail the "Regulations on the Management of Pollution Permits"

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter Bai Yang

　　According to the amount of pollutants generated, the amount of emissions and the degree of impact on the environment, the implementation of pollutant discharge classification management, the requirement of pollutants to establish an environmental management account record system, and the implementation of environmental credit supervision on enterprises... From March 1, 2021, the "Pollution Permit Management" The Regulations will be officially implemented.

What positive impact will this regulation have on my country's ecological environment protection?

Many experts interpreted it.

　　Clarify "discharge according to license, supervision according to license"

　　One of the highlights of the regulations is the clear requirements for the main responsibility of the pollutant discharge unit.

　　For example, pollutant discharge units must operate and maintain pollution prevention facilities, build standardized pollutant discharge outlets, conduct self-monitoring in accordance with the requirements of ecological environment management, and keep original monitoring records. Key pollutant discharge units need to be connected to the monitoring equipment of the ecological environment authority. The retention period of monitoring records and environmental management ledger shall not be less than 5 years.

　　"These regulations can not only standardize the pollution management process, but also effectively improve work efficiency." said Hu Qing, a professor at Southern University of Science and Technology. The regulations stipulate the management model of "discharge according to license and supervision according to license", clarify the legal status of discharge permits, and define Determine the management authority of sewage permit.

　　"The pollution discharge permit is not only a'pollution discharge qualification certificate', but also a carrier of legal and normative requirements for pollution discharge. A pollution discharge permit is a legal document for pollutant discharge units to undertake pollution discharge control obligations and responsibilities. It is legal and mandatory. Sun Shouliang, director of the Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that the regulations return the responsibility of pollutant emission control to enterprises, change the previous government-managed and nanny-style management practices, and clarify the main responsibility of pollutant emission control units.

　　Severe punishment for illegal acts

　　Regarding the legal responsibilities of illegal pollutant discharge, the regulations set strict regulations.

For example, for acts such as unlicensed pollutant discharge, the competent department of ecological environment shall order corrections or order restriction of production, suspension of production for rectification, and impose a fine of 200,000 yuan to 1 million yuan; if the circumstances are serious, report to the people's government with the right to approve for approval. Order to suspend business and close down.

If the pollutant-discharging unit refuses to cooperate with the supervision and inspection by the competent department of ecological environment or resorts to fraud during the supervision and inspection, it will be fined 20,000 yuan up to 200,000 yuan.

　　Hu Qing believes that the regulations will severely punish illegal pollutants and will encourage polluters to abide by the law and effectively promote environmental law enforcement.

　　In addition, the regulations stipulate that the competent department of ecology and environment should strengthen the supervision of the discharge of pollutants with licenses during and after the event, and incorporate the inspection of the law enforcement of pollutant discharge permits into the annual law enforcement plan.

　　Sun Shouliang said that the competent department of ecological environment can supervise and supervise the pollution discharge behavior of pollutant discharge units through law enforcement monitoring, random inspections, etc., and define, clean up, and punish related illegal behaviors related to pollution discharge.

　　Form a supervisory force

　　It is worth noting that the regulations set up a special chapter to make detailed provisions on "supervision and inspection".

Wang Canfa, a professor at China University of Political Science and Law, believes that these regulations on law enforcement procedures and methods solve the problems of the use of law enforcement methods and the identification of law enforcement evidence that have plagued environmental law enforcement agencies for many years, and provide a strong guarantee for the environmental law enforcement of fixed source pollution monitoring in the future.

　　For a pollutant discharge unit, how many times does it need to conduct routine on-site inspections a year?

How to check is reasonable?

The regulations are clear, and the inspection frequency and method can be reasonably determined according to factors such as the type of pollution discharge permit management, the credit record of the pollution discharge unit, and the needs of ecological environment management.

　　Wang Canfa believes that this regulation avoids the randomness and blindness of the ecological environment law enforcement inspection.

　　The regulations also require that the competent department of ecological environment shall record the time, content, results and punishment decisions of law enforcement inspections on the national pollution discharge permit management information platform, and at the same time incorporate the punishment decisions into the relevant national credit information system for public announcement.

　　Sun Shouliang said that the introduction of social supervision in the regulations has created conditions for the formation of a joint supervision force.

In the future, it is necessary to promote pollutant discharge units to regularly report implementation reports, carry out information disclosure on a regular basis, consciously accept supervision and inspection, establish corporate environmental compliance and integrity information sharing mechanisms, and strengthen the credit constraints of pollutant discharge permits.