PRC environmental regulations
China has been making a very conspicuous push towards implementing greener policies that will affect manufacturing industries. Here, three specialists provide insight and advice into what regulations to pay particular attention to, and how foreign companies can remain compliant and possibly beneft from these new environmentally-friendly policies.
Issue: July/August 2010
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Vinson Elkins
V&T Law Firm
I am well aware that China has been increasingly focused on environmental issues and pushing for a greener industrial future. The operation of my manufacturing plants across the PRC will no doubt be impacted by the maturation of China’s environmental laws, and I don’t want to run into any trouble.
What environmental regulatory developments can I expect in the future and are there cost-efficient strategies I should implement to ‘go greener’?
The domestic perspective
In recent years, enhanced environmental awareness has led to improvements in the environmental legal system. The government has posed stricter corporate responsibility requirements, and this has resulted in a strengthened enforcement of environmental policy.
In one example, since 1989, China began to implement the environmental impact assessment (EIA) system on construction projects. This means that all new, rebuilding and expansion projects are subject to an objective assessment of their potential environmental impact before...
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