Listed companies will compulsorily disclose annual environmental reports

[China Epoxy Network (China Epoxy Industry Online)July 20, 2010: On July 3, 2010, Fujian Zijin Mining, a listed company that had been notified of serious environmental problems earlier There was another serious sewage leakage accident.
The environmental protection issues of listed companies have once again attracted the attention of the whole society.
On July 13, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the "Notice on Further Strictly Enforcing the Listed Environmental Inspection Management System and Strengthening the Post-Environmental Inspection of Listed Companies", requiring provincial environmental protection departments to urge listed companies within their jurisdiction to release annual environmental reports.
According to experts from the China Epoxy Industry Association ( some listed chemical companies have stated that in the future, listed companies will face mandatory disclosure of environmental annual reports, and environmental pressure will further increase.
The notice requires that the contents of the annual environmental report of listed companies that need to be disclosed include industrial policies, environmental impact assessments, standard discharge and total control, pollution declaration and payment of pollution fees, clean production audits, heavy metal pollution prevention, environmental protection facilities operation, use of toxic and hazardous substances, and Implementation of environmental management systems such as management and environmental risk management.
These items will be an important part of the environmental verification of listing.
A professor in the Accounting Department of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics said that foreign listed companies mainly use quantitative reports for environmental information and qualitative descriptions as supplementary.
However, my country has not disclosed a high proportion of environmental information before, and few have published environmental reports.

The "Notice" issued this time has made relatively comprehensive regulations on the disclosure of relevant information.
Currently, among the listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen, there are more than 300 chemical companies, accounting for more than 10% of all listed companies.
Chemical production has the characteristics of high temperature, high pressure, inflammable and explosive, toxic and harmful and corrosive.
Most of the enterprises are built on the banks of rivers with abundant water sources, and the river water mostly carries the function of the local drinking water source.
If a pollution incident occurs Its social impact is huge.
In May of this year, the Ministry of Environmental Protection conducted a post-supervision of the listed companies that passed the Ministry of Environmental Protection's environmental inspections from 2007 to 2008 and found that 11 of the 58 companies had serious environmental problems that had not been rectified on schedule, including Northwest Yongxin Chemical Co.
, Ltd.
, Xinjiang Tianye Co.
, Ltd.
, China Coal Energy Co.
, Ltd.
and Sichuan North Nitrocotton Co.
, Ltd.
are four chemical companies.
According to experts from the China Epoxy Industry Association ( the major environmental issues of these 11 companies include the failure to implement the environmental review and approval or the "three simultaneous" acceptance system in accordance with the law, the failure to complete the task of eliminating outdated production capacity on schedule, and the Able to complete the total emission reduction supporting project on schedule, fail to dispose of hazardous wastes according to law, discharge excessive pollutants, default in huge sewage charges, imperfect environmental protection facilities or fail to install an online monitoring system, and fail to complete the relocation of residents within the protection distance.
"We have made rectification and the Ministry of Environmental Protection conducted an acceptance check on us in June.
" An official from the Securities Department of Northwest Chemical Company said in a telephone interview with CCIN reporters.

    At the end of May, Northwest Chemical issued an announcement, regarding the issue of "monitoring results show that the unorganized emission of xylene exceeds the standard", the company adopted a new production process using the color paste method, the production equipment adopted a closed sand mill, and the main materials such as resin and solvent were transported by pipelines.
, And strengthened on-site clean production management, strict prevention of leaks and leaks, etc.
, have achieved the discharge of benzene series and other pollutants.
In addition, the company built a solvent recovery device in November 2009, which fully realized the harmless treatment of hazardous waste.
More than 300 barrels of waste oil and waste organic solvents and other hazardous wastes that were originally stored in the factory have been recovered and disposed of.
In an interview with CCIN reporters, Sichuan North Nitrocotton Co.
, Ltd.
also stated that they have completed the rectification and are currently waiting for acceptance by the environmental protection department.
Xinjiang Tianye Co.
, Ltd.
also stated that they had completed the rectification in January.
According to experts from the China Epoxy Industry Association ( in addition to the introduction of the annual environmental report system for listed companies, the Ministry of Environmental Protection will also establish an The list of companies to be checked shall publish the results of the environmental protection inspection every year.
All provincial-level environmental protection departments must report to the Ministry of Environmental Protection the inspection opinions directly issued by the province in the previous quarter before the 15th of the first month of each quarter.
Some listed chemical companies interviewed by CCIN reporters stated that the introduction of the "Notice" is not only a pressure but a driving force for companies.
It is the common responsibility of all mankind to protect the blue water and blue sky.
Enterprises must consciously assume social responsibilities, strengthen the governance and monitoring of pollution sources, comprehensively recycle resources, and continuously improve environmental protection by continuously increasing capital investment.

(Our reporter Zhong Huan)

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