Ministry of Environmental Protection restarts "EIA storm" paint companies to be careful to become "storm center"

China Coatings network
: March 29, 2015, the new Minister of Environmental Protection Chen Jining to take up his new job in January. Chen Jining, the youngest minister in Li Keqiang's cabinet, has set off a "storm" in the past month in EIA, accountability, law enforcement and other fields.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection to restart the "EIA storm
coating enterprises
became the "storm center
the Ministry of Environmental Protection to restart the "EIA storm
Following the provisions on the integrity of EIA qualification management, the accountability of environmental assessment illegal projects and the decoupling of EIA institutions, the Regulations on Strict Integrity and Self-Discipline and the Prohibition of Illegal Interference in EIA Approval are issued, prohibiting leading cadres at or above the deputy section level of the administrative organs of the environmental protection system from interjecting in EIA.
"EIA" was frequently mentioned in the month in which Chen Jining officially took over as minister. The EIA storm is even considered to be the "first fire" of Chen Jining's administration.
EIA, or Enviro
nmental Impact Assessment, refers to the analysis, prediction and assessment of environmental impacts that may result from the implementation of planning and construction projects, proposes countermeasures and measures to prevent or mitigate adverse environmental impacts, and follows up and monitors methods and systems. In layman's terms, it analyzes the possible impact on the environment after the project is completed and put into operation, and puts forward the countermeasures and measures to prevent and control pollution.
On March 25, 2015, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the "National Environmental Protection System EIA Decoupling Program", which requires the National Environmental Protection System EIA Agency to be fully decoupled by the end of 2016, and the Environmental Protection Department is compiling and employing staff of subordinate enterprises, all of which will be withdrawn from EIA. Market exit, personnel exit, highlighting the strength of EIA reform.
plan, just 17 days before and after Chen's March 7 speech at the National People's Congress. This decoupling scheme is considered to be another "EIA storm" and an "ultimatum" to the reform of the EIA body. According to data from the 2014 National Environmental Protection Work Conference, by the end of 2013, 47 of the 103 reform pilot units had completed restructuring and 16 had withdrawn from the EIA market, and it was still too early to complete the previous target of full decoupling by the end of 2015.
March 6, just a week after Chen Jining beed new minister, the Ministry of Environmental Protection publicly notified the investigation and prosecution of 63 non-compliance EIA institutions and 22 EIA engineers. 63, 40% of the total in the previous two years, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has previously processed 159 non-compliance EIA agencies in five batches. The next day at the National People's Congress press conference, Chen Jining publicly stressed that "card approval to eat environmental protection, wearing a red top to make black money."
Coatings
enterprises carefully become the "storm center
as early as 2005, in order to strengthen environmental protection, especially to strengthen the environmental protection evaluation of major construction projects, the implementation of the scientific concept of development of important content, the State Environmental Protection Administration has launched a series of important measures to strengthen the environmental law enforcement of construction projects, caused a strong response in the country, public opinion called that action "environmental assessment storm."
the first batch of 30 illegal and illegal EIA projects published, almost all of them invested hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in major power projects, the power industry became that year's "EIA storm" "storm center."
an important branch of the chemical industry, the coating industry has always been the focus of environmental protection supervision of the object, as an important means of supervision of the EIA, to become a coating enterprises continued development of the opener. The Ministry of Environmental Protection restarted the "environmental assessment storm", paint industry enterprises had to prevent becoming the next "storm center."
is gratifying that, today, most of the domestic brand paint enterprises to expand, the EIA part did not encounter too much resistance.
The author's simple analysis of the reasons for two, first, most of the current paint production base is built in the suburbs, most of the initiative to avoid residential areas, for the adoption of environmental assessment laid the foundation;
This time the Ministry of Environmental Protection to restart the "environmental assessment storm", mainly from the Ministry of Environmental Protection itself, I believe that after the consolidation of the internal will be the external rectification, the paint industry still exists a lot of irregular small and medium-sized paint enterprises, which may also become the Ministry of Environmental Protection knife. The introduction of a consumption tax on coatings for environmental protection shows that the Ministry of Environmental Protection has once again set its sights on the paint industry, which has been exaggerated by the outside world as highly polluting.
As early as September 2014, at the 2014 Chemicals and Hazardous Chemicals Control Summit, the Department of Pollution Prevention of the Ministry of Environmental Protection revealed that the Ministry of Environmental Protection is studying the environmental risk assessment of key hazardous chemicals construction projects, including chemicals for the assessment of potential risks to human health. At present, the Ministry of Environmental Protection is on the preliminary technical preparations for the discussion.
2011 Opinion of the State Council on Strengthening the Key Work of Environmental Protection listed environmental risk assessment as an important part of the evaluation of hazardous chemicals projects, but China's control of hazardous chemicals is still in the preliminary stage of "re-approval and light supervision". The current internationally accepted regulatory practice is to assess and identify environmental and human health risks of chemicals in production and use in the market, and to reduce the environmental and health hazards of hazardous chemicals by limiting phase-out or other risk prevention and control measures for chemicals identified as high-risk and high-risk.
The refinement of this regulatory measures on enterprises involved in the production and use of dangerous chemicals put forward higher requirements, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Department of Pollution Prevention revealed: "In the future, when enterprises build factories, in addition to the industry's environmental pollutant emission standards to assess your environmental impact, but also to assess the cumulative effect of key chemicals in daily release on a certain range of human health and ecological hazards around." In
the Ministry of Environmental Protection is also gradually promoting the phase-out of highly toxic, non-degradable and environmentally hazardous chemicals, as well as efforts to limit the production and use of chemicals with high environmental risks. At present, China is also producing and using some chemical materials eliminated by developed countries such as Europe and the United States, such as some of China's ocean-going foreign trade ships have stopped using
ship paint
, but in the in the insidion and in the river ship transport is still frequently used, will cause water quality environmental hormone pollution and a series of environmental problems. In the light of national conditions, before the phase-out of high-risk chemicals, the relevant alternative analysis, economic and social impact analysis, as well as extensive listening to industry views.
for new chemicals not included in the existing chemical list, the Ministry of Environmental Protection Decree No. 7 strictly stipulates the new chemical production import registration system. It is reported that the "New Chemical Substances Declaration and Registration Guide" is currently in the process of revision, the scope of application of new chemical declarations, the type and form of declaration, declaration and registration procedures, declaration requirements and post-registration supervision and management of detailed provisions.
EIA process
EIA process
The Environmental Impact Assessment Act, which was implemented on 1 September 2003, has made EIA a serious legal system. Article 25 of the EIA Law clearly stipulates that if the environmental impact assessment documents of a construction project are not examined or approved by the examination and approval department prescribed by law, the approval department of the project shall not approve its construction and the construction unit shall not start construction.
The implementation of environmental impact assessment and the "three simultaneous" system (i.e., environmental protection facilities in construction projects must be designed at the same time as the main project, construction, simultaneous production and use), not only in the control of new pollution, the protection of the ecological environment has an irreplaceable role, but also adhere to the people-oriented, the implementation of comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development strategy of important measures.
environmental impact assessment refers to the systematic identification, prediction and assessment of possible environmental impacts (consequences) of proposed construction projects, regional development plans and national policies. The fundamental purpose of environmental impact assessment is to encourage the consideration of environmental factors in planning and decision-making, which ultimately lead to more environmentally compatible human activities.
environmental impact assessment includes a series of steps that are carried out sequentially. In practice, the process of environmental impact assessment can be different and the sequence of steps can vary.
an ideal environmental impact assessment process that should be able to meet the following criteria:
(1) is essentially adapted to all projects that may have a significant impact on the environment and is able to identify and assess all possible significant impacts,
(2) Comparison of alternatives (including non-construction or regional development of projects), management techniques, mitigation measures;
(3) the generation of clear environmental impact reports (EIS) to enable both experts and non-experts to understand the characteristics and importance of possible impacts;
(4) includes extensive public participation and rigorous administrative review procedures; and
(5) timely and clear conclusions to provide information for decision-making.
environmental impact assessment: environmental quality assessment, environmental impact prediction and evaluation, post-environmental impact assessment

: "EIA storm" needs to stand at the source of pollution control height, but also need to stand in the rule of law "wind mouth." The most fundamental question of EIA is who to listen to and who to be accountable to. In theory, EIA, as an independent and impartial third party, should be responsible for the environment and the public.