Rule of Law **Quan**Reporter Zhang Wei.
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on January 29 that in 2023, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will guide the practice of ecological and environmental damage compensation cases, and handle ecological and environmental damage compensation cases nationwide1470,000 cases, involving a compensation amount of 64800 million yuan.
In the past year, the system of ecological and environmental laws, regulations and standards has been continuously improved. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) has promoted the issuance of interim regulations on the management of ecological protection and carbon emission trading on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and revised and issued regulations on the management of marine environmental protection and ozone-depleting substances. 3 departmental rules were formulated and revised, and 100 ecological and environmental standards were issued. Promote the reform of the environmental information disclosure system in accordance with the law, and the first disclosure cycle in 2022 is 8More than 30,000 enterprises and institutions disclose environmental information in accordance with the law.
The effectiveness of ecological and environmental law enforcement is also improving. In 2023, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will severely punish malicious environmental violations in accordance with the law with a "zero tolerance" attitude, and continue to work with the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security to carry out the "two strikes" (cracking down on environmental violations and crimes of hazardous waste and falsification of automatic monitoring data of key pollutant discharge units), investigating and punishing 2,906 illegal cases and fining 47.1 billion yuan, and 1,624 cases of suspected crimes were transferred to the public security. 7960,000 cases, with a total of 62 fines and forfeitures700 million yuan. Promote the lawful sentencing of Shandong Jinhua, Jiangxi Zhanhang and other EIA fraud cases, and achieve a major breakthrough in the judicial practice of EIA fraud in criminal law. 8,482 people were organized to complete the on-site investigation of the sewage outlets of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Bohai Sea in 12 rounds, and a total of nearly 10 sewage outlets were investigated90,000, and more than 20,000 environmental problems related to sewage outlets were found and solved.
At the same time, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment adheres to the combination of "online" and "offline", and will organize nearly 280,000 person-times carried out 16 rounds of on-site and 14 rounds of remote air quality improvement supervision and assistance in key areas, and inspected enterprises in key industries570,000 to find and promote the solution of various gas-related environmental problems8More than 70,000. For eight consecutive years, we have organized and carried out large-scale training activities for ecological and environmental protection law enforcement. The country is equipped with environmental protection law enforcement equipment according to the standard 4990,000 units (sets), an increase of nearly four times compared with 2022, and the upload rate of mobile law enforcement inspection data exceeded 99%.
In addition, in 2023, a total of 36410,000 pollutant discharge permits quality audit, 2530,000 implementation reports were reviewed for normative purposes, with a total of 375720,000 stationary pollution sources are included in the management of pollutant discharge permits.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) has always attached great importance to the rule of law. Sun Jinlong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, stressed at the 2024 National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection held recently that the work of ecological environmental protection is very political, people-oriented and law-based, and it is necessary to respect the rule of law, revere the law, administer according to law, perform duties according to law, and be good at using rule of law thinking and rule of law methods to carry out work. "Before we take every measure, we must ask questions that do not conform to national laws and regulations, properly handle the relationship between ends and means, persist in taking facts as the basis and the law as the criterion, the purpose must be legitimate, and the means and procedures must also be legal. ”