Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000935
Chunk: 222

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 222
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 no. 2/91/M stipulates that any installation, machine or means of transportation whose activity may affect the air quality must be equipped with a device or other means that can ensure compliance with legal emission limits under the penalty of being banned.

In what respects water quality, it is forbidden under article 23 paragraph 1 of the Law no. 2/91/M to discharge in marine jurisdictions any substances, liquid or solid residues that may, somehow, pollute the water, beaches, shoreline, as well as flora and sauna, such as oil products or oil containing mixtures, or other chemical substances set in applicable international agreements or conventions.

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Furthermore, in Macau, there is a general rule prescribed in General Regulation of Public Place, as approved by Administrative Regulation no. 28/2004 dated August 16, 2004, that every work involved solid waste shall be arranged and conducted in order to avoid and reduce to the most extent the risk to public health and environmental damage. Under the said General Regulation of Public Place, drain water or any contaminated fluid or gas must not be released to public place.

Regarding noise pollution, it is restricted by the provisions as set out in Law no. 8/2014 dated August 25, 2014, or Law no. 8/2014, which is also known as the law for “ Prevention and Control of Environmental Noise”, and its subordinate rule Chief Executive Dispatch no. 248/2014 dated September 1, 2014, or Chief Executive Dispatch no. 248/2014, which sets out the applicable acoustic standard in this aspect in order to replace the Decree Law no. 54/94/M dated November 14, 1994 and its subordinate rule Order no. 241/94/M dated November 14, 1994. Under the Law no. 8/2014, as supplemented by its subordinate rule Chief Executive Dispatch no. 248/2014, the installation and operation of new industrial, commercial or service units is not permitted, nor the expansion of existing units, when they may produce disturbing noise.

The regulatory authority in charge of environmental protection matters is the Macau Environmental Protection Bureau which has promulgated certain environmental protection guidelines in relation to different kind pollution in connection to construction site, such as renovation, demolition and noise. However, police authorities are also legally entitled to monitor the compliance of regulation.

Laws and Regulations in relation to Labor

The labor legal framework of Macau is regulated by