China News Service, Beijing, December 27 (Reporter Liang Xiaohui and Li Jingze) The draft revision of the Marine Environmental Protection Law was submitted to the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress for deliberation on the 27th.
The revised draft adds marine environmental protection credit evaluation and application regulations, and includes relevant credit records into the national public credit information sharing platform.
The current Marine Environmental Protection Law was passed in 1982, revised in 1999, and revised three times in 2013, 2016, and 2017.
Since its implementation, the law has played an important role in the protection of the marine environment.
However, with the acceleration of the construction of ecological civilization, the Marine Environmental Protection Law is no longer applicable to the requirements of the new situation and urgently needs to be revised and improved.
The current Marine Environmental Protection Law has ten chapters and 97 articles, and the revised law has nine chapters and 116 articles.
The revised draft strengthens the guiding role of the marine ecological environment protection plan, and at the same time stipulates that the national marine ecological environment protection plan should be connected with the national land space plan.
It stipulates the zoning control of the ecological environment, and includes the coastal waters into the zoning control plan of the ecological environment and the access list of the ecological environment.
The revised draft intends to revise and improve the total amount of pollutant discharge control system in key sea areas and the "regional limited approval" system, and increase the regulations on the management of pollutant discharge permits.
In accordance with the national reform requirements, through the implementation of the pollutant discharge permit system, the total amount control requirements for enterprises, institutions and other production operators to directly discharge key pollutants to key sea areas will be implemented.
The revised draft also optimizes the marine environmental standards and monitoring and investigation system, and adds provisions on the investigation of the quality of the marine ecological environment, marine resource investigation, and early warning and monitoring of marine ecology.
Increase marine environmental protection credit evaluation and application regulations, and include relevant credit records into the national public credit information sharing platform.
In order to strengthen the integrated protection of the marine environment of coastal engineering and marine engineering construction projects, the revised draft stipulates that the requirements for ecological protection of construction projects should be improved, and that construction projects should avoid or reduce the impact on marine life. Erosion, sedimentation and damage regulations.
In view of the outstanding problems of marine dumping, the revised draft intends to strengthen the management of waste dumping, increase the requirements for units that generate waste to apply for marine dumping permits, issue inspection reports on waste characteristics and components, optimize the level of approval for dumping permits, and encourage dredged materials, etc. Comprehensive utilization of waste.
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