The environment in the New Environmental Protection Law refers to

The environment referred to in this law refers to the general natural factors that affect human survival and development and the natural factors that have undergone artificial transformation, including atmosphere, water, ocean, land, minerals, forests, grasslands, wetlands, wild creatures, natural ruins, Humanities, Nature Reserve, Scenic Scenic Area, Cities and Villages, etc.
Limited by the original laws and regulations, for a long time, the punishment and law enforcement methods of China’s environmental protection department have been quite limited. Compared with public security and even tax and industrial and commercial departments, the environmental protection department has always been a “soft yamen”, which is difficult to deteriorate.Racing environmental illegal acts.The new “Environmental Protection Law” just introduced provides a series of law enforcement weapons that are sufficient to change the status quo and targeted —
The first is to add a “penalty penalty” system, that is, a daily and continuous fines of continuous environmental violations.This means that illegal stolen, over -discharge, evasion of testing, etc., the longer the violation, the more fines.The fines stipulated in the previous law for environmental violations were a fixed number, and the amount was not large, resulting in a low cost of illegal illegal, and many companies were negligible for pollution.After the implementation of the “penalties” by the new law, the amount of fines will not be blocked on the amount of fines, and it will force illegal enterprises to quickly correct pollution.
The second is that the new “Environmental Protection Law”, as an administrative law, rarely stipulates the punishment measures for administrative detention, and will use the strictest administrative penalties to pollute the criminals.The new law stipulates that administrative detention should be applied to environmental violations with serious circumstances; environmental monitoring agencies with fake acts and environmental monitoring equipment and controlling pollution facilities and operating institutions are required to assume joint responsibilities.
Third, the reason why the pollution behavior of individual local enterprises is unscrupulous, behind the acquiescence of local officials based on the deformed political performance concept. In this regard, the new “Environmental Protection Law” will use the “protective umbrella” to operate.The specific provisions are: leading cadres will report, lie, and conceal pollution, and will be resigned; in the face of major environmental violations, local governments in charge of leaders and environmental protection departments and other supervisory departments will “resign”.
The new “Environmental Protection Law” is also an open legislation, which integrates civilian forces into the mechanism of environmental governance in an orderly manner, and has established an environmental protection public interest litigation system.In the second trial of the draft draft, the subject of environmental protection public interest litigation was limited to an environmental protection organization of a “national name” and filial piety; in the subsequent amendments, the subject of the legal lawsuit was further expanded, and it was eventually stipulated as: “According to law in the law in the law, in law in law, in law in lawThe civil affairs department of the people’s governments at or above the municipal level of the district registered, and specialized in environmental protection public welfare activities for more than five consecutive years and credible social organizations. “At the same time, the New Law also stipulates: “Social organizations that meet the prescribed regulations shall filed a lawsuit with the people’s court, and the people’s court shall accept it according to law.”
Legal basis
“Environmental Protection Law of the Republic of China”