Tire Projects without Permission to be Sorted Out

The Ministry of Environmental Protection has issued the Circular on Enhancing Assessment Management of Environmental Affects, Centering on Environmental Quality Improvement.

The Circular emphasizes that new projects will be restricted in regions where the status quo of environmental quality surpasses given standards and those failed to meet the requests of environmental quality targets.

MEP requests local administrators to sort out projects constructed without permission before Dec. 31, 2016.

The standards for the clearance are: eliminating a batch of projects, regulating a batch of projects, and improving and registering a batch of projects.

In some leading tire and rubber producing provinces, there are still some projects are constructed without permission.

MEP emphasizes that starting from July 1, projects constructed without permission will be punished by law.

For projects try to delay the date of environmental acceptance check, concerning authorities should take measures to solve the problem; those lead to severe environmental pollution or ecocide should be investigated and dealt with; and those refuse to follow the environmental protection requests should be penalized by day.

The Circular also asks local administrators to work out negative lists of environmental access covering deployment and location selection, efficiency of resource utilization, and resource deployment.

In addition, newly built petroleum processing, chemicals, non-ferrous metal metallurgy, coking, and tanning projects are strictly restrained in regions where the priority is to protect the farmlands.