One-Certificate Management Of Discharge

Full Implementation of 'One-Certificate' Management of Discharge Permits by 2027

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment recently released the 'comprehensive implementation of the sewage discharge permit system implementation programme', proposed that by 2025, the full completion of industrial noise, industrial solid waste sewage discharge permit management, basic completion of the marine engineering sewage discharge permit management, basically to achieve the full coverage of environmental management elements. By 2027, the 'one-card' management of discharge permits will be fully implemented, and the efficacy of the discharge permit system will be effectively brought into play.

Starting from the '13th Five-Year Plan', the relevant departments have been vigorously promoting the reform of the sewage discharge permit system, achieving full coverage of the management of sewage discharge permits for stationary sources of pollution, and completing the phased reform tasks. In recent years, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have put forward new requirements for deepening the reform of the discharge permit system.

Pei Xiaofei, spokesman for the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, introduced that the implementation programme focuses on the control of pollutant emissions, promotes further convergence and integration of the environmental management system for fixed pollution sources in depth and breadth, proposes the path of convergence between the environmental impact assessment, total volume control, self-monitoring, ecological and environmental law enforcement, ecological and environmental statistics environmental protection tax, etc. and the sewage permitting system and the implementation of the sewage permitting system as the core of the fixed pollution source The implementation programme also specifies the ways to deepen the supervision system of fixed pollution sources with the sewage permit system. At the same time, the implementation programme also specifies the path to deepen the reform of the discharge permit system, promote the inclusion of industrial noise, industrial solid waste, marine engineering into the management of discharge permits in accordance with the law, and explore the inclusion of electromagnetic radiation, ammonia emissions from livestock and poultry farming into the management of discharge permits in accordance with the law, so as to achieve the synergistic treatment of multi-pollutants from fixed pollution sources, and to achieve the full coverage of emissions units, environmental management elements, and emissions control.

The implementation programme fully implements the 'one-card' management of fixed pollution sources, promotes the construction of an environmental management system based on discharge permits for discharge units, strengthens the joint supervision, resource sharing and information interoperability of discharge permits, environmental monitoring and environmental law enforcement, innovates information-based supervision, improves the information-sharing mechanism for environmental compliance and integrity, and builds an environmental credit supervision system. credit supervision system, and strengthen social supervision.