The Ministry of Environmental Protection has updated thousands of standards within 5 years, and the EIA system and pollutant discharge permit will rebuild the rules!

Environmental  protection standards are an important means of implementing  environmental protection laws and regulations and an important basis for  supporting environmental protection work. In order to  further improve the environmental protection standard system and give  full play to the positive role of standards in improving environmental  quality and preventing environmental risks, on the basis of fully  summarizing the work requirements of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”  environmental protection standards, our Ministry has compiled the  “National Environmental Protection Standards”. The 3rd Five-Year Development Plan (see attachment). Now issued to you, please refer to the implementation.

annex:National Environmental Protection Standard "13th Five-Year" Development Plan

　Ministry of Environmental Protection

　　2017年4月5日

  onsultation content: Which companies are required to apply for the Pollution Discharge Permit, what should I do?

     Reply unit: Provincial Environmental Protection Department

     Reply  content: Hello, enterprises with pollution control facilities must  apply for the “Sewage Permit”, and the Environmental Protection Bureau  will make clear the provisions in the “Construction Project  Environmental Approval”. Within 3 months of trial  production, the enterprise shall submit the “Sewage Application Form” to  the local environmental protection department, and at the same time  entrust the local environmental monitoring center station to carry out  monitoring and acceptance, and go to the environmental protection  department to handle the “discharge permit” with the qualified  “Monitoring and Acceptance Report”. .

The  sewage permit system means that any unit or individual that needs to  discharge various pollutants to the environment must apply to the  environmental protection department for the discharge permit procedure  in advance, and obtain the discharge permit after approval by the  environmental protection department. System drainage permit for pollutants.

After  implementing the pollutant discharge permit system, allowing emissions  trading is a major innovation in the domestic environmental protection  system. If  the pollutant discharge unit is adjusted by treatment or industry  (including products), the actual amount of actual discharge is lower  than the approved total amount of pollutants allowed, and approved by  the environmental protection department, and the transfer is allowed. However,  because in the current management arrangements, the system of  collecting sewage charges by the government is a non-market-based quota  approach, rather than using market transactions. Therefore,  from the domestic situation, the transaction of emission rights is  embodied as an operational institutional arrangement, and it is actually  implemented, and it is necessary to explore the operational mechanism. In  September 2001, the “Sulphur Dioxide Emissions Trading System” funded  by the Asian Development Bank was piloted by 26 enterprises in Taiyuan  City, Shanxi Province, which was the first to open domestic emissions  trading.

The current standard system and the main results of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan"

The  environmental protection standard system has been further enriched and  perfected. After more than 40 years of development, China has now formed  two levels and five types of environmental protection standard systems,  namely: national and local standards.

The  categories include: environmental quality standards, pollutant emission  (control) standards, environmental monitoring standards, environmental  management norms and environmental basic standards.
As  of the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, 1941national environmental  protection standards were issued (including 493 items during the  “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period), 244items were abolished, and 1697 current standards were issued.

• 16 environmental quality standards

• 161 pollutant discharge (control) standards

• Environmental monitoring standard 1001 items

• Management specification class standard 481 items

• 38 items of environmental basic standards

Strengthen the  guidance and management of local environmental protection standards, and  issue the “Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Local Environmental  Protection Standards” (Huanfa [2014] No. 49) and the “Notice on Urgently  Reviewing and Cleaning Local Environmental Quality Standards and  Pollutant Emission Standards” (Huanhua [2015] No. 39) and  other documents have streamlined the relationship between national  standards and local standards, and local environmental standards have  developed rapidly.

As of the end of the "Twelfth  Five-Year Plan" period, the local environmental protection standards  passed the record reached 148, an increase of 85 items from the end of  the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan". What will be done in the 13th Five-Year Plan for Environmental Protection?

What will be done in the 13th Five-Year Plan for Environmental Protection?

（一）Overall objective 

• Vigorously promote standard revision.

• Focusing  on sewage permitting and environmental management centers such as  water, atmosphere and soil, we will increase the progress of research  projects and revise a number of key standards.

• Establish a  system of standards-based revision and implementation evaluation methods  based on actual measurement, and optimize the formation of internal  science and external coordination of environmental protection standards.

• Strengthen  the implementation assessment of pollutant discharge standards in one  step, and improve the scientific and operability of standards.

• We  will formulate and implement a number of standard management rules and  regulations, form a team with solid professional standards and obvious  environmental protection standards, deepen the construction of standard  information, and improve the standardization and efficiency of standard  management.

• Strengthen publicity training and exchanges and cooperation，Expand the social impact of China's environmental standards.

（二）Specific environmental protection standard planning indicators

1．Launched about 300 environmental standards revision projects，And 20 key and common issues related to the assessment of environmental quality standards and pollutant emission (control) standards, such as compliance determination and emissions accounting. We will fully promote about 600 projects that have been initiated and about 300 new projects, and a total of about 900 environmental standards revision work.

2．Issued about 800 environmental standards，It  includes about 100 quality standards and pollutant discharge (control)  standards, about 400 environmental monitoring standards, and about 300  environmental basic standards and management norms, supporting  environmental management priorities.

3．Promote the implementation of more than 30 key environmental standards，Guide the revision of relevant standards and propose environmental management recommendations.

4．Revision《National Environmental Protection Standards Revision and Management Measures》《National Pollutant Emission Standard Implementation Assessment Work Guide》And other management system documents, standard management work.

5．National trainingMore than 3,000 person-times, driving local training more than 15,000 times.

What are the major changes in the EIA and Emissions Licensing Standards System?

• Environmental Basic Standards Revision Plan

The  implementation of new environmental management systems such as  supporting pollutant discharge permits, the revision and revision of  technical guidelines for the revision of national and local water and  air pollutant discharge standards, the improvement of technical content  of emission standards, and the strengthening of coordination between  local and national standards.

Revise the technical  guidelines for the standardization and revision of environmental  monitoring and analysis methods, improve the technical requirements for  method validation, method quality control, etc., and improve the quality  of standard revision and revision.

Formulate relevant standards for environmental information and improve the level of environmental management information. 

• Environmental management standard

Support the key  tasks of environmental management, establish a new type of management  system, combine the “recommended review of recommended standards” and  the implementation of standards implementation conducted by the National  Standards Committee, review and review the current types of management  standards, and optimize existing standards. The system studies and expands the types of environmental management norms.

Cooperate with the establishment and implementation of the discharge permit system，Formulate  technical specifications related to pollutant discharge permits for key  industries such as petrochemical, coking, boiler, nonferrous metals,  flat glass, steel, cement, printing and dyeing, fertilizer,  pharmaceutical, tanning, electroplating, etc.Establish a standard system for pollutant discharge permits and support related management work.

In conjunction  with the implementation of the sewage permit system, the industry's best  available technical guidance system will be gradually established. We  will carry out the preparation of the best available technical  guidelines for key industries such as thermal power, paper, steel,  cement, textile printing and dyeing, pharmaceutical, leather, chemical  fertilizer, petrochemical, coking, and general processes, and clarify  the feasible technical and management requirements for compliance of  various pollutants based on emission standards. Adjust and  establish the system, source strength and thematic technical guidance  system with the core of improving environmental quality.

Strengthen  the top-level design of the EIA technical guidance system according to  the latest requirements of the environmental impact assessment system  reform and the “three simultaneous” management system,Adjust  and establish the system, source strength and thematic technical  guidance system with the core of improving environmental quality.

Technical  guidelines for environmental impact assessment of environmental factors  such as surface water, groundwater, atmosphere, soil, and sound are  revised.

Develop a technical guide for the strong accounting of pollution sources - guidelines，Develop  technical guidelines for energy sources such as thermal power, paper,  steel, cement, railways, highways, mining, airports, landfills, urban  rail transit, rare earths, biosafety laboratories, etc.

Improve the technical specification system for completion of environmental protection acceptance of construction projects，Formulate  technical specifications for completion of environmental protection  acceptance for construction projects such as pharmaceutical, thermal  power and coking.

Improve the technical standards system for planning environmental impact assessment , Revise the  technical guidelines for planning environmental impact assessment -  general outline, technical guidelines for regional environmental impact  assessment of development zones, formulate urban master plan, overall  land use plan, water conservancy plan (integrated basin planning),  petrochemical base planning, urban transportation planning, energy  planning Technical guidelines for planning environmental impact assessment in areas such as (electricity).

strengthenTechnical  guidance for post-evaluation of environmental impact, port, railway,  metallurgy, petrochemical, chemical industry with outstanding impact on  long-term, cumulative and uncertain environmentTechnical guidelines for post-evaluation of environmental impacts for major projects。