According to the website of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, in order to further increase the supervision of environmental impact assessment and pollutant discharge permits, promote the institutionalization and normalization of supervision, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has recently issued the Action Plan for Environmental Impact Assessment and Pollutant Discharge Permit Supervision (2021-2023), deploying relevant work. Require ecological and environmental departments at all levels to attach great importance to and conscientiously deploy, formulate and organize the implementation of regulatory action plans and 2021 work plans for their respective administrative regions.

In the first half of the year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued a notice on strengthening the quality supervision of the preparation of environmental impact reports (tables), requiring all regions to take the Shenzhen Bay incident as a reference, draw lessons from it, and carry out special inspections of the quality of environmental impact assessment documents. Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has concentrated on the ecological and environmental departments of six provinces (regions), including Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Sichuan, and has transferred a batch of clues to serious quality issues found in environmental impact assessment documents during supervision. It is required to conduct investigations and evidence collection in accordance with the law, and to investigate and deal with illegal activities in accordance with the law. Those suspected of committing crimes will also be transferred to judicial organs for criminal responsibility, continuing the quality centered regulatory trend, Strengthening the deterrence and warning against illegal activities such as falsification in environmental impact assessments. Issuing the Notice on Strengthening Law Enforcement in the Cleaning and Rectification of Fixed Pollution Source Discharge Permits and the Registration of Discharge Permits, further standardizing the methods and contents of law enforcement inspections in the cleaning and rectification of fixed pollution sources and the registration of discharge permits.

Since the beginning of this year, spot checks have been conducted on the quality of cleaning and rectification work, involving more than 700000 polluting units; Inspect the submission status of execution reports submitted by 156200 certified units before 2019, and supervise the timely submission of annual and quarterly execution reports.

In order to further increase the supervision of environmental impact assessment and pollution discharge permits, promote the institutionalization and normalization of supervision, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has recently issued the Action Plan for Environmental Impact Assessment and Pollution Discharge Permit Supervision (2021-2023), deploying relevant work. Require ecological and environmental departments at all levels to attach great importance to and conscientiously deploy, formulate and organize the implementation of regulatory action plans and 2021 work plans for their respective administrative regions.

The Action Plan requires ecological and environmental departments at all levels to focus on prominent issues in key regions and industries, and to focus on illegal and irregular behaviors that affect the effectiveness of the environmental impact assessment system's source prevention, the full coverage of fixed pollution source discharge permits, and the concentration of public feedback. They should strictly investigate and punish in accordance with the law, crack down on and curb illegal behaviors such as falsification, shoddy production, failure to implement environmental impact assessment requirements, unlicensed and unlicensed discharge. Each region should formulate a regulatory action plan for its administrative region from 2021 to 2023, and prepare and implement an annual work plan on an annual basis.

The Action Plan emphasizes that ecological and environmental departments at all levels should carry out supervision around two aspects: quality and implementation. For the environmental impact assessment of construction projects, conduct a review of environmental impact assessment documents, conduct spot checks on the implementation of environmental impact assessment documents and approval requirements, and conduct spot checks on the legality and compliance of environmental impact assessments for environmental impact registration form projects; Conduct spot checks on the implementation of environmental impact reports for key areas of planning in response to environmental impact assessments; Conduct spot checks on the issuance, registration, and implementation of pollutant discharge permits.

The Action Plan points out that ecological and environmental departments at all levels should adhere to improving regional environmental quality as the core of their regulatory work, combining random and targeted supervision, and implementing classified disposal based on the degree of impact on the ecological environment. The environmental impact assessment and pollution discharge permit management departments and the ecological environment comprehensive law enforcement departments should coordinate and link up, promote the connection between review and approval and administrative law enforcement, and form a joint regulatory force.

The Action Plan requires ecological and environmental departments at all levels to strengthen credit management and information disclosure in their regulatory work, timely report typical illegal cases such as failure to implement environmental impact assessment requirements, unlicensed pollution discharge, and non compliant pollution discharge. If the situation is serious and the impact is severe, it should be publicly exposed on government websites or mainstream media. Serious investigation and punishment shall be carried out in accordance with laws, regulations, and discipline on relevant units and personnel with existing problems.

The 2021 Environmental Impact Assessment and Pollutant Discharge Permit Supervision Work Plan of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment has been released simultaneously, clarifying the annual key supervision work of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.