VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha has approved a plan to inspect all projects with large waste discharging volumes in the country.

The plan will begin in early August 2016. The purpose of the inspections is to assess the state administration in the field of environmental protection and water resources in Vietnam.

Based on the inspection result, the relevant agencies will propose amendmentsand supplements to and perfect the legal institutions to strengthen the State management of environmental protection in the process of evaluation, approval and implementation of investment projects.

The inspection team will also propose appropriate solutions to overcome the existing problems in order to ensure that businesses strictly observe the law associated with sustainable development.

The subjects of inspection are organizations and businesses that discharge waste into the environment. Inspections will focus on industrial production enterprises with wastewater discharge volume of 200m3/day or more, which are likely to cause pollution of the marine environment, watersheds in major provinces and cities.

The Ministry will establish three inspection groups to check the enterprises with wastewater discharge volume of 500m3/day or more in 23 provinces.

Minister Tran Hong Ha also asked the Departments of Natural Resources and Environment of all 63 provinces and cities to make the list of enterprises that discharge 200m3 of wastewater or more per day for the inspection in 2017.

This is considered one of the largest inspections of this kind so far.

Mai Anh