Ministry of Ecology and Environment Interpretation of "Action Plan for New Pollutant Control"

Original title: How to make up for the shortcomings and strengthen the management of new pollutants? ——The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment interprets the "New Pollutant Control Action Plan"

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 25th: How to make up for shortcomings and strengthen the management of new pollutants? ——The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment interprets the "New Pollutant Control Action Plan"

Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing

The General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Action Plan for New Pollutant Control" to make a comprehensive deployment of new pollutant control wo.

Control new pollutants and effectively prevent environmental and health risks

The person in charge introduced that the production and use of toxic and harmful chemicals is the main source of new pollutan.

New pollutants have the characteristics of biotoxicity, environmental persistence, and bioaccumulati.

The action plan issued this time proposes the goals and tasks of strengthening the management of new pollutan.

The person in charge said that in recent years, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, together with relevant departments, has actively promoted the establishment of a policy and standard system for environmental risk management of toxic and hazardous chemical substances, implemented environmental management registration of new chemical substances, carried out environmental risk assessment of chemical substances, and issued priority control chemica.

By 2025, the ability to control new pollutants will be significantly enhanced

The action plan is cle.

The person in charge said that it should be seen that China's new pollutant control started late, the work foundation is relatively weak, and it faces many deficiencies and shortcomings such as laws and regulations, management systems, scientific and technological support, and resource allocati.

In response to these issues, the action plan has made a series of arrangements:

Strengthen the construction of laws, regulations and systems, gradually improve the management system for the treatment of new pollutants, and focus on researching and formulating regulations on environmental risk management of toxic and hazardous chemical substanc.

Improve the relevant technical standard system, formulate and revise technical standards such as environmental risk assessment of chemical substances, and gradually establish and improve the technical standard system for environmental risk assessment and control of chemical substanc.

Establish and improve the management mechanism for new pollutant control, establish a cross-departmental coordination mechanism for new pollutant control led by the ecological environment department and participate in multiple departments, coordinate the promotion of new pollutant control work, and fully implement the territorial responsibility for new pollutant contr.

Increase scientific and technological support, carry out research on key technologies for environmental risk assessment and control of toxic and harmful chemical substances, strengthen research on the mechanism of ecological environmental hazards such as antibiotics and microplastics, and strengthen scientific and technological research on new pollutants in the national science and technology pl.

Strengthen basic capacity building, strengthen national and local supervision, law enforcement and monitoring capacity building for the treatment of new pollutants, strengthen relevant professional talent team building and special training,e.

More emphasis on precise, scientific, and law-based pollution control

The person in charge said that in view of the characteristics of new pollutants, it is necessary to highlight the precise, scientific, and lawful pollution control, and adopt the overall work idea of ​​"screening, evaluating, controlling" and "banning, reducing, and treating", that is, through the development of chemical substances in the environme.

In this regard, the action plan proposes four main governance tasks: first, to carry out investigation and monitoring to assess the environmental risk status of new pollutan.

In order to ensure the effective implementation of various action measures for the control of new pollutants, the action plan also proposes safeguards such as strengthening organizational leadership, strengthening supervision and law enforcement, broadening funding channels, and strengthening publicity and guidan.