Chinanews.com.cn, November 25. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a regular press conference in November on the 25th. Bie Tao, Director of the Department of Regulations and Standards of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, introduced at the meeting that as of the end of this month, more than 7,600 cases have been processed across the country. Eco-environmental compensation cases involved more than 9 billion yuan in compensation.
Bie Tao introduced that since the "13th Five-Year Plan", the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has insisted on highlighting the political nature of ecological and environmental regulations and standards, actively cooperating with legislative bodies and relevant departments, and working together to promote significant progress in the construction of ecological and environmental regulations and standards. It provides a strong guarantee of the rule of law for the in-depth fight against pollution.
Mainly manifested in five aspects:
First, the legislative work on the ecological environment has been vigorous, and the results have been unprecedented.
13 laws including the "Environmental Protection Law" and "Yangtze River Protection Law", and 17 administrative regulations including the "Regulations on the Management of Pollution Discharge Permits" and "Regulations on the Environmental Protection Management of Construction Projects" have been revised since the "13th Five-Year Plan".
Currently, there are 15 ecological and environmental laws with the ecological and environmental authorities as the main law enforcement agency, accounting for nearly 1/20 of the total number of laws currently in force.
As of this month, there are 32 administrative regulations on ecological environment.
In addition, there are more than 40 internal party regulations and documents closely related to the ecological environment, mainly the institutional reform of the ecological civilization system.
84 departmental regulations formulated by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
A judgment can be drawn that a system of laws and regulations in the field of ecological environment has basically been formed, and the main areas of the ecological environment have basically realized that there are laws to follow.
In addition, there are local ecological and environmental regulations, local government regulations and local environmental standards, there are hundreds of thousands.
China has ratified and participated in more than 40 international environmental treaties, including bilateral and multilateral treaties.
The Supreme Court and the Supreme Procuratorate have promulgated a large number of judicial interpretations on the ecological environment, such as environmental crimes, environmental public interest litigation, and trial of ecological environmental damage compensation cases. Incomplete statistics should also be more than 20.
There are also many regulations on ecological environment in other laws and regulations, which are also an integral part of the national ecological environment legal system.
For example, the Constitution's provisions on ecological civilization, the "Civil Code" on the special chapter on the ecological environment, the "Criminal Law" on the punishment of ecological environment pollution crimes, etc.
These are all organic parts of the ecological environment legal system.
The second is that significant results have been achieved in the construction of the ecological environment standard system.
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the former Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment formulated and revised and issued 673 national eco-environmental standards. The growth rate during the five-year period was the fastest in the past five-year planning period.
The total number of current national ecological and environmental standards has reached 2,202, of which 201 are mandatory standards. The mandatory standards include environmental quality standards, pollutant discharge standards, and environmental risk management and control standards. The mandatory standards have the attributes of technical regulations, so certain In the sense, it is also an integral part of the legal system.
In recent years, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has revised and issued the "Eco-Environmental Standards Management Measures" and the "National Eco-Environmental Standards Preparation and Revision Work Rules", which further improved the top-level design of the ecological environmental standard management system and clarified the future work on the formulation and implementation of ecological environmental standards direction.
The third is the comprehensive development of the reform of the ecological environment damage compensation system.
Case practice has made positive progress. As of the end of this month, more than 7,600 ecological environment compensation cases have been handled across the country, involving more than 9 billion yuan in compensation. It has promoted the treatment and restoration of a batch of damaged ecological environments, including those of social concern. The case of ecological damage in the Muli Coal Mine in Qinghai, Qilian Mountains, is being advanced in an orderly manner in accordance with national regulations.
Five laws, including the Civil Code and the Yangtze River Protection Law, as well as the Central Ecological Environmental Protection Supervision Regulations, as well as 13 provincial-level ecological environmental protection supervisory methods, and 19 provincial-level local environmental protection laws and regulations all provide for the ecological environment damage compensation system.
Fourth, regulations and regulatory documents within the party played an important leading role.
The Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Supervision Work Regulations and the Measures for the Accountability of Party and Government Leaders’ Ecological and Environmental Responsibilities have been successively revised and amended. They have developed rapidly. They are very active in the legal system and are particularly worthy of attention. They have not only promoted compaction. The political responsibility of ecological civilization construction and ecological environmental protection has also effectively promoted the construction of the national ecological environment rule of law.
Fifth, there are rules to follow to control pollution in accordance with the law.
In recent years, the central government has proposed to control pollution, scientifically and accurately control pollution according to the law. The Party Central Committee has successively issued a series of documents on the rule of law in China, the rule of law government, the rule of law culture, and the rule of law society. Recently, the "Guiding Opinions on Deepening Ecological Environment Administration According to Law and Continuously Strengthening Pollution Control According to Law" was issued, which is a comprehensive document for the ecological environmental protection system to promote pollution control according to law.
Bie Tao said that in the next step, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will, in accordance with the overall planning and deployment of the national ecological and environmental protection work during the 14th Five-Year Plan, organize the national ecological and environmental protection system to comprehensively strengthen ecological and environmental protection regulations and work, in order to achieve synergy and improve pollution The prevention and control battle provides a favorable guarantee.