China News Service, March 13. According to the "China Water Conservancy" WeChat public account, recently, the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Justice jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Water Administrative Law Enforcement" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guiding Opinions"), in-depth Implement the requirements of the central government to deepen the reform of the administrative law enforcement system and the "Three-Year Action Plan for Improving the Quality of Administrative Law Enforcement (2023-2025)" issued by the General Office of the State Council, further improve the quality and efficiency of water administrative law enforcement, and promote the reform of the comprehensive administrative law enforcement system and water administration Management is organically connected.
The "Guiding Opinions" aims to improve the quality and effectiveness of law enforcement, focusing on six aspects: overall requirements, consolidating the main responsibilities, improving standards and regulations, improving collaboration mechanisms, strengthening supervision and assessment, and strengthening work guarantees to improve the water administrative law enforcement system and mechanism. , standardize water administrative law enforcement behaviors, effectively solve water-related violations of laws and regulations, and provide strong legal guarantee for high-quality development of water conservancy in the new stage.
The "Guiding Opinions" point out that water administrative departments and river basin management agencies at all levels must adhere to their statutory responsibilities and cannot do anything without legal authorization.
It is necessary to consolidate the main responsibilities of water administrative law enforcement, change the administrative management method that emphasizes approval and neglect supervision, and transfer more administrative resources from pre-approval to in-process and post-event supervision.
We will improve a new regulatory mechanism that takes "double randomization, one disclosure" supervision and "Internet + supervision" as the basic means, supplements key supervision, and is based on credit supervision.
Increase law enforcement efforts in key areas that are of vital interest to the masses, such as flood control safety, water supply safety, project safety, water resources, water ecology, and environmental protection, and water conservancy project construction quality and safety.
The legal work institutions within water administrative departments and river basin management agencies at all levels must strengthen business guidance on administrative decision-making, administrative law enforcement work and the handling of major water administrative law enforcement cases at the same level, and strictly implement the legal review system.
Improve water administrative law enforcement standards and regulations, implement the benchmark system for administrative discretion, and unify law enforcement case files and document standards.
The "Guiding Opinions" make it clear that we will vigorously promote cross-domain and cross-department joint law enforcement to achieve interconnection of illegal clues, interoperability of law enforcement standards, and mutual recognition of processing results.
In areas where comprehensive administrative law enforcement is reformed, water administrative departments must proactively connect with comprehensive administrative law enforcement departments to achieve an organic connection between daily supervision and comprehensive law enforcement.
To dynamically adjust the administrative law enforcement matters devolved to towns (streets), all provincial water administrative departments must actively cooperate with the judicial administrative departments to assist in the regular evaluation of water administrative law enforcement matters devolved to towns (streets).
Strengthen regular law enforcement supervision and special law enforcement supervision, and improve the coordination and linkage mechanism for law enforcement supervision between judicial administrative departments and water administrative departments.
The "Guiding Opinions" emphasize that in the face of the new situation of law enforcement system reform, water administrative departments at all levels must effectively improve their ideological understanding and explore and study the return of administrative law enforcement functions to the working mechanism of the agency.
Strictly implement the qualification management and certification system for water administrative law enforcement personnel, and strengthen law enforcement capabilities and the digitalization of law enforcement.
Water administrative departments and river basin management agencies at all levels must clarify key tasks, strengthen coordination and cooperation, promote innovative practices, and achieve a smooth connection between water administrative management and comprehensive administrative law enforcement reform.