Official: environmental services environmental services of third party polluters accomplice | third parties _ news
Beijing, December 9, the State Council recently issued the notice on strengthening environmental regulatory enforcement, implement a comprehensive environmental regulatory enforcement. Interpretation of environmental watchdog Sun Zhenshi, Director of the Department of environmental protection today, said third parties often become reality some environmental services sewage enterprises that illegally discharge pollutants accomplices of malicious collusion with units providing false EIA materials, falsified or tampered with monitoring data and other illegal activities are not uncommon.
State Office recently issued the notice on strengthening environmental regulatory enforcement, implement a comprehensive environmental regulatory enforcement, severely punish environmental offences. Cao Liping, Deputy Secretary for the environment, monitoring of environmental protection and the Department of environmental protection's environmental watchdog, Sun Zhenshi, Director for the Government's website, online chat with netizens, and answer the questions.
Sun Zhenshi noted that of decisions adopted at the third plenary session of "third-party management of environmental pollution" as the important task of speeding up ecological civilization construction. In recent years, the environmental services industry has been developing rapidly, markets have been expanding. At present, the environmental medium repair service including the improvement of environmental quality and pollution, pollution control, consulting and training and assessment, environmental certification and conformity assessment, such as environmental monitoring and pollution detection. For the establishment of a fair and competitive market environment, third-party governance is that the Government promote the development of environmental protection industry and environmental governance an important means to upgrade and promote third-party governance is clearly one of the key legal liability of third-party governance structures. The notice proposed to be responsible for environmental services of third parties to be accountable, both for purification environmental services market, but also for promoting healthy development of environmental services.
Sun Zhenshi said, new amendment of environmental protection method 65th article clear provides, "environment effects evaluation institutions, and environment monitoring institutions and engaged in environment monitoring equipment and pollution control facilities maintenance, and operations of institutions, in related environment service activities in the fraud, on caused of pollution and ecological damage has responsibility of, except pursuant to related legal regulations be punishment outside, also should and caused pollution and ecological damage of other responsibility who bear joint responsibility", environment service third party institutions should bear joint responsibility.
Sun Zhenshi stressed that, in reality, a number of environmental services, third parties often become accomplices to enterprises that illegally discharge pollutants, malicious collusion with units providing false EIA materials, falsified or tampered with monitoring data and other illegal activities are not uncommon. Environmental service third parties assist the unit to avoid environmental regulation is more hidden, fake, evade more professional supervision, social impact is even worse. Jointly and severally responsible for third party agencies accountability for environmental services, on the one hand will crack down on environmental services, third parties illegal acts to eliminate environmental services third parties become the accomplices of units, on the other hand, is also conducive to nurturing a healthy market for environmental services.
(Original title: official: environmental services, third party firms aiding and abetting to falsify data)
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