National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Environmental Protection, Measures for Cleaner Production Audits

Applicability: For the purposes of these Measures, the term “cleaner production audit” (CPA) means the process wherein an investigation and diagnosis of a production or service process is conducted by a specific procedure, the reasons for high energy consumption, high material consumption and/or serious pollution are discerned, a plan is presented to reduce energy consumption, material consumption and/or the generation of waste, or to reduce the use and/or generation of toxic or hazardous substances or to utilize waste as a resource and then a technically, economically and environmentally feasible cleaner production plan is determined and implemented (Article 2).