From next month, Beijing will levy a volatile organic matter sewage charge.

China Coatings Network
: From October 1, Beijing will be furniture manufacturing, packaging printing, petrochemical, automotive manufacturing, electronics industry and other five major industries in 17 industry categories began to levy volatile organic matter (hereinafter referred to as VOCs) sewage charges.
, the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the Municipal Finance Bureau jointly issued "on volatile organic matter sewage charges notice." City Environmental Protection Bureau, the voCs for the collection of sewage charges, the standard will reflect the award of good and bad, VOCs emissions exceeding the standard enterprises to pay will be the emission concentration on the basis of the standard to halve the enterprise 4 times.
specifically, VOCs are charged in three grades. Through VOCs clean production assessment, emission concentration is lower than or equal to 50% of the city's emission limit, and the month has not been punished by the environmental protection department for pollution of the environment, the fee is 10 yuan per kilogram;
this time for VOCs sewage charges in the country is the first time, Beijing involved about 2000 enterprises, intended to promote enterprises to update their own technology to reduce pollution.
City Environmental Protection Bureau responsible for the introduction of five major categories of VOCs emissions accounted for about 80% of the city's total, "petrochemical individual emissions are relatively large", due to different types of enterprises, annual emissions can be up to hundreds of thousands of tons.
this sewage charge will be levied by the environmental protection departments of each district and county, the procedure is the same as the sewage charges for sulfur dioxide and other pollutants, divided into six steps, such as declaration, audit, approval (calculation), delivery, payment, reconciliation, etc.
the relevant person in charge of the Environmental Protection Bureau, Beijing, on the basis of the scope of collection of pollutants stipulated by the state, has formulated its own pollution sewage charge standards of six kinds of pollutants, namely sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, COD, ammonia nitrogen, site dust and VOCs.
The so-called VOCs, in fact, is the general term for volatile organic pollutants into the air, at room temperature and pressure with a higher vapor pressure, strong volatility, can be produced by chemical reaction PM2.5, ozone and other secondary pollutants, is one of the main pollutants affecting the atmospheric environment in Beijing, which contains benzene, tetromethane, polyethylene and other substances can cause cancer.
"volatile organic matter is active," said the city's environmental protection bureau officials, especially in the summer, VOCs can also form ozone, is one of the main pollutants in Beijing in the current summer.
Its main sources come from two aspects: petrochemical and other industries of gasoline, organic solvents,
coatings
and other products containing volatile organic matter production process;
Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau responsible for the introduction of VOCs sewage charges by professionals and institutions, according to the average cost of pollution control measured;
"no less than the average cost of corporate governance," the person in charge said, the move is intended to the past by the community to bear the environmental losses into the operating costs of sewage enterprises, so as to guide enterprises to consciously control pollution and reduce emissions. Pollution control is not only conducive to protecting the environment, but also conducive to reducing the economic costs of enterprises themselves.
City Finance Bureau responsible for the introduction, VOCs sewage charges will be implemented "two lines of revenue and expenditure" management, unified into the Beijing Municipal Municipal Financial Sewage Charges special funds, in accordance with the Beijing Municipal sewage charges collection and use of the relevant provisions of the scope, procedures and requirements to arrange the use.
"promoting corporate governance by economic means", the person in charge said, sewage charges will be integrated into the financial budget management, dedicated to environmental pollution prevention and control, new technologies and new technology promotion, environmental supervision and so on.
addition, the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau also said that enterprises can not be exempted from the responsibility to prevent and control pollution, compensation for pollution damage and other responsibilities stipulated in laws and administrative regulations.
, this will also encourage enterprises in production and operation, taking full account of environmental factors and sewage costs to achieve emission reduction targets. The collection of volatile organic sewage charges will give full play to the role of market mechanism, eliminate high-polluting products and production processes such as coatings and inks with high volatile organic content, reduce volatile organic emissions and improve air quality.
the VOCs clean production assessment, the emission concentration is less than or equal to 50% of the city's emission limits, and the month has not been punished by the environmental protection department for polluting the environment.
, there are no installed exhaust gas treatment facilities, or exhaust gas treatment facilities operating abnormally, or volatile organic emissions and other environmental pollution behavior.
other circumstances.