Home building materials industry environmental protection "sword" revealed

China Paint Network
: Recently, a documentary called "Under the Dome" once again caused a heated discussion in the whole society about the causes of haze pollution, but also further strengthened people's awareness of environmental protection. In many industries, although the home building materials industry is not like the energy industry has become the focus of discussion, but because it is related to the safety of the home environment, so the environmental performance of related products are also of concern. In order to allow consumers to buy assured home building materials products, the relevant departments of the state, industry parties will be issued or perfected in 2015 a series of regulatory standards, aimed at allowing consumers to have a "sword" in hand, in order to safeguard their rights and interests;
Home building materials industry environmental protection "sword
exposed under the dome, the industry is facing new environmental protection requirements
According to reporters understand, many of the enterprises in the home building materials industry chain are sewage, such as
paint
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industry, furniture manufacturing, ceramics, metal processing manufacturing and so on. With the country's environmental standards for various industries continue to tighten the bottom line, so that the sustainable development of the home building materials industry is facing serious challenges.
24, 2014, the Environmental Protection Act, known as the "Steel Teeth", was amended and put into effect on January 1, 2015. The newly amended Environmental Protection Law provides for "daily penalties" and gives law enforcement officials the power to seize and seize them, and environmental protection departments can directly require polluting enterprises to limit production or stop production. In addition, it is also clear that local governments have leading responsibility for environmental supervision and enforcement, enterprises and institutions bear the main responsibility, and society plays a supervisory role.
fact, the national level of environmental protection issues in the home building materials industry is not only reflected in the Environmental Protection Law, but also many other aspects. For example, on January 26, 2015, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation jointly issued the Notice on the Collection of Consumption Tax on Paints (Treasury Tax (2015) No. 16), which provides for the imposition of a consumption tax on coatings from February 1, 2015, including production, commissioned processing and import, at an applicable rate of 4%. In addition, the introduction of some local regulations also has an impact on the home building materials industry. Li Lixin, director of the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau's Air Pollution Integrated Management Coordination Bureau, recently revealed that Beijing will separately issue the Clean Air Action Plan 2015 in order to achieve the target of reducing the average concentration of PM2.5 by 5% in 2015. Among them, Beijing will take the lead this year in organizing the collection of construction dust sewage charges, and began to collect volatile organic sewage charges. In order to further improve the threshold of sewage standards, Beijing this year will introduce a number of industries involving refining and petrochemical, printing, wood furniture manufacturing, automobile manufacturing repair, paint adhesive and other industries of new standards, some of which will be difficult to measure in the production, processing processing of volatile organic matter to develop product content standards, in order to limit enterprise sewage in all aspects. The introduction of these standards will have a significant impact on the furniture and coatings industry.
Against the background of the tightening of national laws and the enhancement of people's environmental awareness, household enterprises directly affected by the interests should comply with the legal requirements, and relevant trade associations should actively advocate enterprises to comply with national laws and regulations and standards, and actively adjust production facilities to bring products into line with more stringent new requirements.
the fighting room, a number of stringent regulatory standards will be introduced
if the national legal level is concerned with the "under the dome" of the environment, then the relevant mandatory standards are more concerned with the "inside the fighting room" of the small living room environment. After all, the law can only make more general provisions for the relevant industries and enterprises, and industry standards can make detailed requirements for it.
because the environmental performance of household products is directly related to the health of consumers, it is necessary for enterprises to strictly follow the relevant standards as a guideline for the production of products. However, the formulation of industry standards often involves industrial development, corporate interests and many other aspects, in order to find a balance that can meet the interests of all parties, the best way is to cooperate. However, the reality is that in China's home building materials industry, more small and medium-sized enterprises, which to cooperate in the development of standards and implementation of standards brought challenges.
2014 China Building Materials Home Industry Development Report shows that "low industrial concentration, disorderly competition, market environment needs to be improved" is a major dilemma facing the home industry in the development process. Take the construction sanitary ceramics industry as an example, China has about 1700 construction sanitary ceramics enterprises, and the top 10 enterprises in the construction ceramics industry are less than 1/8 of the industry's output; This makes the industry by fake and inferior products repeatedly banned, formaldehyde problem frequently, product quality is difficult to ensure, "by the brand name" and other chaos. At the same time, due to the low concentration of these industries, the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises, to regulatory brought more difficulties; Because for small and medium-sized enterprises, how to survive is the most important, their attention to environmental protection issues is not high. This status quo reinforces the need to refine industry standards.
2014, several standards for home building materials related to public health have been revised and refined, all of which have put forward more stringent requirements. For example, on December 1, 2014, the "strictest ever" tap national standard - "ceramic sheet sealed water nozzle" (GB18145-2014) was officially implemented, which included the amount of metal discharge into the national mandatory standards, and increased the amount of manganese, chromium and other elements of the discharge regulations, the limits of metal pollutants and detection methods in line with European and American standards.
that the 2015 home building materials industry will usher in more new standards. For example, the latest revision of the National Standard for Interior Decoration Materials, Artificial Panels and Their Products (GB18580-2001), which has been in use since 2002, has entered the approval stage and will be adopted as a mandatory national standard. In addition, the revision of the "Air Purifier" (GB/T18801-2008) and the National Standard for the Limit of Hazardous Substances in Wood Furniture (GB18584-2001) has been basically completed; "The limit of harmful substances in soft furniture sofa" and "the limit of harmful substances in soft furniture mattress" two new national standards have been drafted. The establishment of these standards will become the future consumer living environment safety, health protection.
industry development calls for joining hands to rule together
whether it is laws and regulations at the national level or stringent standards at the industry level, can be used as a "sword" for consumers to defend their rights. But in order for it to play its due role in achieving the goal of working together to govern together, in addition to the need for their own "sharp", but also need consumers to learn to use, otherwise it will be reduced to decoration.
china's current Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Law has two bright spots, namely, public interest litigation and the burden of proof inverted, which plays a vital role in consumers to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. Article 47 of the Consumer Law stipulates that the Chinese Consumer Association and the consumer associations established in provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may bring a suit in a people's court against acts that infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of many consumers. As a public welfare organization to safeguard the rights of consumers, consumer associations are more professional and authoritative in safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, so it is more conducive to the protection of consumer rights and interests by filing public interest lawsuits. Article 23 of the Law stipulates that if a consumer discovers defects or disputes within 6 months from the date of acceptance of the goods or services provided by the operator, such as durable goods such as motor vehicles, computers, television sets, refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, etc., the operator shall bear the burden of proof for the defects. This means that if consumers find that the decoration works have environmental pollution problems, can bring a lawsuit in court, at this time the decoration company should bear the burden of proof.
in the process of household building materials consumption, the environmental performance of products is the most concerned about consumer indicators, because it is related to the health of every family member. Therefore, in order to make the home building materials industry healthy and sustainable development, on the one hand, the need for national level attention, so that laws and regulations, standards with the times to develop and improve; On the other hand, consumers should also enhance the awareness of rights protection, dare, good at lighting the shot in the "sword", to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests.
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Implementation of regulations and standards in the home building materials industry
Laws and Regulations
Environmental Protection Law: Revised and adopted on April 24, 2014 and implemented on January 1, 2015. It stipulates that illegal production enterprises shall be "punished on a daily scale", that environmental law enforcement officials shall be given the power to seal up and seize, and that environmental protection departments may directly request enterprises that exceed the standard to limit production or stop production.
Consumer Protection Act: The latest amendment was passed on October 25, 2013 and came into effect on March 15, 2014. Public interest litigation and the inverted burden of proof are two of the highlights.
notice on the imposition of a consumption tax on coatings, which came into effect on February 1, 2015, provides for a 4% consumption tax on the production, commissioned processing and import of coatings.
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Standard, "Ceramic Sheet Sealed Water Nozzle" (GB18145-2014) came into effect on December 1, 2014. Increased the amount of manganese, chromium and other elements of the discharge requirements, the limit of metal pollutants and detection methods in line with European and American standards.
"The release limit of formaldehyde in interior decoration materials, artificial panels and their products" (GB18580-2001) is being revised. In the revised version, the E2≤5.0mg/L standard was removed and replaced by the more stringent E1≤1.5mg/L, E0≤0.5mg/L.
"Air Purifier" (GB/T18801-2008) is being revised. The two basic technical indicators for evaluating air purifiers will be further improved, and the noise and energy efficiency levels of air purifiers will be improved.
"National Standard for limits of hazardous substances in wood furniture" (GB18584-2001) is being revised. Damage detection will be replaced by non-destructive testing, and the existing "atmospheric detection method" will be replaced by "climate box detection".
"Limits of Harmful Substances in Soft Furniture Sofas" is being developed.
"Limits of Hazardous Substances in Soft Furniture Mattresses" is being developed.