China News Service, June 9, Wei Shanzhong, deputy minister of the Ministry of Electricity and Water Resources, said on the 9th that in recent years, the Ministry of Water Resources has organized and implemented three-year law enforcement actions in rivers and lakes, and promoted all 4,267 old cases to be "cleared".
The Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Water Resources jointly held a press conference on "Strengthening the Collaboration between Water Administrative Law Enforcement and Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation to Safeguard National Water Safety in Law" on the 9th, and released the "On Establishing and Improving Cooperation in Water Administration Law Enforcement and Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation" jointly issued by the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Water Resources. Opinions on the Mechanism", reported the situation of strengthening water administrative law enforcement and promoting the construction of the rule of law in water, released 10 typical cases of public interest litigation in the field of procuratorial water, and answered questions from reporters.
Wei Shanzhong introduced at the meeting that the Yangtze River Protection Law was officially implemented. As the first river basin law in my country, important institutional arrangements were made for the management of water resources in the Yangtze River basin, water ecological protection, river and lake management and control, and unified scheduling of control projects; the draft of the Yellow River Protection Law It has been approved by the executive meeting of the State Council and reviewed for the first time by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress; the regulations on groundwater management have been promulgated and implemented.
In addition, the formulation of regulations on water conservation and the revision of regulations on management of sand mining in the Yangtze River are progressing smoothly, and local water conservancy legislation has achieved remarkable results.
At present, a water law system has been initially formed, consisting of 5 laws, 19 administrative regulations, 1 judicial interpretation, 55 departmental regulations, and more than 1,000 local regulations. according to.
Wei Shanzhong said that the vitality of the law lies in its implementation, and the authority of the law also lies in its implementation.
"While continuously improving the water laws and regulations system, we continue to strengthen the construction of the water administrative law enforcement system, accelerate the improvement of the water administrative law enforcement network, and continuously improve the mechanisms of cross-regional linkage, cross-departmental joint, and execution connection for water administrative law enforcement, and promote normalized law enforcement and special projects. Law enforcement and law enforcement supervision have been fully exerted, and the level of water administrative law enforcement has been continuously improved."
"In recent years, we have organized and implemented the three-year law enforcement action in rivers and lakes, promoted the 'clearing' of all 4,267 old backlogs, and carried out in-depth special law enforcement actions for illegal sand mining in the Yangtze River, special law enforcement actions for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei water resources, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, The special rectification of water and soil conservation supervision and law enforcement in the Yellow River Basin has played an important role in maintaining a good water order and ensuring national water security." Wei Shanzhong said.
Wei Shanzhong said that at present, my country has entered a new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. The Ministry of Water Resources has clarified six implementation paths to promote the high-quality development of water conservancy in the new stage. Strengthening institutional mechanisms and legal management is one of the paths. Guiding opinions and implementation plans for the rule of law management of the system and mechanism, adhere to the simultaneous implementation of legislation, reform, waste and release, accelerate the improvement of the water legal system, focus on key areas such as the rights and interests of the people involved in water and the health of rivers and lakes, comprehensively strengthen water administrative law enforcement, and provide national water security. Strong legal support.
He also pointed out that the establishment of a public interest litigation system by procuratorial organs is a major reform arrangement made by the Party Central Committee.
The management of river and lake water resources is an important area of ecological environment and resource protection. The Ministry of Water Resources attaches great importance to the procuratorial public interest litigation in the water-related field. In January this year, the National Water Conservancy Work Conference clearly identified the establishment of a public interest litigation system in the water-related field as an important part of strengthening the legal management of water conservancy. Take measures to give full play to the role of public interest litigation in safeguarding and supervising, and severely crack down on water-related violations.
"In order to promote implementation, we and the Supreme People's Procuratorate jointly researched and formulated opinions on establishing and improving the cooperation mechanism between water administrative law enforcement and procuratorial public interest litigation, jointly released typical cases of procuratorial public interest litigation in the water-related field, and cooperated in handling major cases. By strengthening water administrative law enforcement Cooperate with procuratorial public interest litigation, give full play to the supervision, support and guarantee role of procuratorial public interest litigation, promote the benign interaction between water conservancy departments and procuratorial organs, form a joint force of administrative and procuratorial protection, jointly crack down on illegal activities in water affairs, and improve the level of protection and governance of rivers and lakes.” Wei Shanzhong said.