MIIT Standardizes Industrial Clean Production Review and Implementation Assessment

On May 13, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued on its website the Regulation on Industrial Clean Production Review and the Regulation on Industrial Clean Production Implementation Effectiveness Assessment.

The Review Regulation requires any enterprise that matches any of the following conditions to be subject to a compulsory review:

• Discharges pollutants in excess of the standards specified by the State or local authorities, or exceeds the total controlling indicator for key pollutants discharge;
• Exceeds the unit product energy-consumption limits, resulting in high energy consumption;
• Uses toxic or harmful raw materials for production, or discharges toxic or harmful substances during production.

The two regulations mark implementation of the PRC Clean Production Promotion Law and MIIT's Special Action Plans for 2015 Industrial Green Development issued in March 2015.