The Latest Policies for Chemical
Environmental Management in China

Department of Pollution Prevention and Control,MEP, China
November 15, 2013

Table of Contents
I. “The ‘12th FiveFive-Year Plan’ for Prevention andControl of Chemical Environmental Risks”

II. “Measures on the Environmental Management
Registration of Hazardous Chemicals (Trial)”

III. “Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances inChina” (2013)

I. “The ‘12th FiveFive-Year Plan’ for Prevention andControl of Chemical Environmental Risks”(I) Existing Disadvantages(II) Guiding Ideologies, Principles and Targets(III) Main Tasks(IV) Key Projects(I) Existing Disadvantages
1. Irrational industry structure
and arrangement, outstanding
problem of environmental
pollution and hidden risks

2. Incomplete system ofchemical environmental
management regulations

4. Insufficient capacity forsupporting monitoring, early
warning, emergency
response, management andtechnology

3. Undefined basic information
and risk base concerning
environmental management

Three Types of Risks to be Targeted at•

Health and Environmental risks caused by toxic andhazardous chemicals;•Risk of environmental accidents caused by hazardouschemicals•

Regional deterioration of environmental quality caused byrelease of typical pollutants from chemicalchemical-relatedindustries

(II) Guiding Ideologies, Principles and Targets
Guiding Ideologies
Under the guidance of the scientific development outlook targeted at fulfillingthe main task of environmental risk prevention and control as defined by the “12thFive-Year Plan”, the general principle of proactive prevention and control should be
followed for strengthening the system construction of whole-process prevention andcontrol of chemical environmental risks and enhancing the capacity of chemical
environmental management and risk control, with the focus on chemical control andtypical pollutants release, the improvement of early warning and emergency
response and the strict implementation of responsibilities, so as to effectively
contain the situation of frequent occurrence of chemical environmental pollution andenvironmental accidents and establish a sound basis for all-round progress ofchemical environmental management and risk control, gradually realizing thetransition of chemical environmental management from the single measure tocomprehensive prevention and control, from passive response to proactive
prevention and control, as well as from disorganized management to systematicmanagement, all of which is aimed at the guarantee of human health andenvironmental safety.

(II) Guiding Ideologies, Principles and Targets

KEY POINTS
58 chemicals
under key control
related to:

Regions under keycontrol Accumulativeenvironmental
risks—25
 Environmental
accidents—15
 Typical
pollutants—30(of which 12 chemicals
also related to frequentenvironmental accidents)

Enterprises under
key control

6 industries underkey control
 Oil processing, cokemaking and nuclear fuelprocessing Manufacture ofchemical raw materials
and products Pharmaceuticalmanufacture Manufacture ofchemical fibers
 Non-ferrous metalsmelting and rolling Textile
 New coal chemicalprocessing

(II) Guiding Ideologies, Principles and Targets

The Overall Objectives
General Goal:
By 2015, the institutional system of chemical environmental risk
management shall be established, the capacity of chemical
environmental risk management shall be improved substantially, thelevel of environmental risk control for industries, enterprises andchemicals under key control shall be improved significantly.
The assessment of the achievement of the general goal shall befocused on three aspects: the construction of the institutional system,
the construction of risk control capacity, and the level of key control.

(III) Main Tasks

Adjustment

To facilitate the optimization and adjustment ofindustry structureManagement

To improve the environmental management of key
links in production and related fields

Reduction

To control the release of typical pollutants

Improvement

To improve the capacity of environmental supervisionand management

(III) Main Tasks

Adjustment

Tofacilitate
theoptimizationandadjustmentofindustry
structure

Invigorate the phasing-out and restriction
measures
Promote the rational arrangement of industries
under key control
Strengthen assessment of environmental impacts
Increase the standard for environmental
admission and construction

(III) Main Tasks
Establish and complete the system of policies andregulations for chemical environmental management
Promote the environmental management
registration of hazardous chemicals

ManagementTo
improvetheenvironmentalmanagement
ofkey
links
inproduction
andrelated
fieldsConduct investigation and assessment on sources ofchemical and environmental risks
Define the enterprises’ main-body responsibilities inprevention and control of chemical environmental risks
Implement multi-tier supervision on enterprises handlinghazardous chemicals
Promote the cleaner production of hazardous chemical
related industries
Enforce the supervision on the storage and transportationof hazardous chemicals and consumer goods

(III) Main Tasks

Strengthen environmental supervision and monitoring
Reduction

Tocontrol
thereleaseof
typicalpollutants

Promote the stable and up-to-standard release of
typical pollutants
Improve the level of chemical recycling and safe
disposalConduct pilot projects for assessment and restorationof chemically contaminated sites

(III) Main Tasks

Strengthen the construction of fundamental capacity
Improvement

Toimprove
thecapacityofenvironmental
supervision
andmanagement

Improve the capability of emergency response
Improve the whole nation’s level of environmental
consciousness

(IV) Key Projects
All-nation investigation ofbasic information on
production and use ofchemicals andenvironmental risks
Construction of theprevention and control
system of chemical
environmental
management risks

Control of the releaseof typical pollutants
under key control

Demonstration projects
for risk control ofhazardous chemicals

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3

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Construction of
fundamental
capacity in control ofchemicalenvironmental risks

Table of Contents
I. “The ‘12th FiveFive-Year Plan’ for Prevention andControl of Chemical Environmental Risks”

II. “Measures on the Environmental Management
Registration of Hazardous Chemicals (Trial)”

III. “Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances inChina” (2013)