Article 2 "Environment" as mentioned in this Law refers to the sum of various natural factors that affect human survival and development, including atmosphere, water, ocean, land, mineral deposits, forests, grasslands, wetlands, wild animals, natural relics, cultural relics, nature reserves, scenic spots, cities and villages.
Article 3 This Law shall apply to the territory of People's Republic of China (PRC) and other sea areas under the jurisdiction of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Article 4 Protecting the environment is the basic national policy of the country.
The state adopts economic and technological policies and measures that are conducive to saving and recycling resources, protecting and improving the environment, and promoting harmony between man and nature, so as to coordinate economic and social development with environmental protection.
Article 5 Environmental protection adheres to the principles of giving priority to protection, giving priority to prevention, comprehensive management, public participation and responsibility for damage.
Article 6 All units and individuals have the obligation to protect the environment.
Local people's governments at all levels are responsible for the environmental quality of their respective administrative areas.
Enterprises, institutions and other producers and operators shall prevent and reduce environmental pollution and ecological damage, and shall be liable for the damage caused according to law.
Citizens should enhance their awareness of environmental protection, adopt a low-carbon and frugal lifestyle, and consciously fulfill their environmental protection obligations.
Article 7 The State supports the research, development and application of environmental protection science and technology, encourages the development of environmental protection industry, promotes the informatization construction of environmental protection and improves the level of environmental protection science and technology.
Article 8 People's governments at all levels should increase their financial input in protecting and improving the environment, preventing and controlling pollution and other public hazards, and improve the efficiency in the use of financial funds.
Article 9 People's governments at all levels shall strengthen the publicity and popularization of environmental protection, encourage grassroots mass autonomous organizations, social organizations and environmental protection volunteers to publicize environmental protection laws and regulations and environmental protection knowledge, and create a good environment for environmental protection.
Education administrative departments and schools should incorporate environmental protection knowledge into school education content and cultivate students' awareness of environmental protection.
The news media should publicize environmental protection laws and regulations and environmental protection knowledge, and supervise environmental violations by public opinion.
Article 59 If an enterprise, institution or other producer or operator illegally discharges pollutants and is fined and ordered to make corrections, and refuses to make corrections, the administrative organ that has made the punishment decision according to law may impose continuous penalties on a daily basis according to the original fine amount from the day following the order to make corrections.
The fines and punishments prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be implemented in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations, and determined according to the operating expenses of pollution prevention facilities, direct losses or illegal gains caused by illegal acts and other factors.
Local regulations may, according to the actual needs of environmental protection, increase the types of illegal acts that are punished continuously on a daily basis as stipulated in the first paragraph.
Article 60 If the pollutants discharged by enterprises, institutions and other producers and operators exceed the pollutant discharge standards or the total emission control targets of key pollutants, the competent environmental protection department of the people's government at or above the county level may order them to take measures such as limiting production, stopping production and rectifying; If the circumstances are serious, it shall be reported to the people's government with the power of examination and approval and ordered to suspend business or close down.
Article 61 If a construction unit fails to submit the environmental impact assessment document of a construction project according to law or starts construction without approval, the supervision and administration department of environmental protection shall order it to stop construction, impose a fine, and may order it to be restored to its original state.
Article 62 If, in violation of the provisions of this Law, key pollutant discharge units fail to disclose or truthfully disclose environmental information, the competent environmental protection department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall order the disclosure, impose a fine and make a public announcement.
Extended data:
According to Article 68 of the Environmental Protection Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), if local people's governments at all levels, environmental protection departments of people's governments at or above the county level and other departments responsible for environmental protection supervision and management commit one of the following acts, the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be given demerit, demerit or demotion; Causing serious consequences, given dismissal or dismissal, the main person in charge to resign:
(a) does not meet the conditions of administrative license, no administrative license;
(2) Covering up environmental violations;
(3) Failing to make a decision to order business suspension or closure according to law;
(4) Failing to investigate and deal with acts such as exceeding the standard discharge of pollutants, evading supervision and discharging pollutants, causing environmental accidents, and failing to implement ecological protection measures;
(five) in violation of the provisions of this law, the facilities and equipment of enterprises, institutions and other producers and operators are sealed up or detained;
(6) Tampering with, forging or instructing to tamper with or forge monitoring data;
(seven) environmental information should be made public in accordance with the law but not made public;
(eight) interception, misappropriation and diversion of sewage charges;
(nine) other illegal acts as prescribed by laws and regulations.
Article 69 Whoever violates the provisions of this Law and constitutes a crime shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-People's Republic of China (PRC) Environmental Protection Law