Title: Decree No. 155/2016/ND-CP dated November 18, 2016, penalties for administrative violations against regulations on environmental protection

Type: Decree

Issuing Agency: Government

Responsible Agency: Relevant Agencies

Issuing Date: 18-11-2016

This Decree deals with violations, penalties, fines, remedial measures against administrative violations, the power to make administrative violation notices and the power to impose penalties against administrative violations; responsibilities and mechanism for cooperation in inspecting and imposing penalties against administrative violations against regulations on environmental protection.

2. The administrative violations against regulations on environmental protection prescribed in this Decree consist of:

a) Violations against regulations on environmental protection plans, environmental impact assessment (hereinafter referred to as “EIA”) and environmental protection schemes;

b) Acts of violation causing environmental pollution;

c) Violations against regulations on waste management;

d) Violations against regulations on environmental protection committed by production, business and service establishments (hereinafter referred to as business establishments) and industrial parks, export processing zones, high-tech parks, industrial complexes and concentrations of businesses and service providers (hereinafter referred to as concentrations of producers, businesses and service providers);

dd) Violations against regulations on environmental protection in the fields of import of machinery, equipment, means of transport, materials, fuels, scraps, bio-preparations; import of used seagoing ships for dismantlement; festival and tourism activities, and mining of minerals;

e) Violations against regulations on prevention and control of environmental pollution and degradation, and environmental emergencies;

g) Administrative violations related to biodiversity, including: Conservation and sustainable development of natural ecosystems; conservation and sustainable development of living resources; conservation and sustainable development of genetic resources;

h) Acts causing obstruction of state management, inspection and imposition of penalties for administrative violations and other acts of violation against regulations on environmental protection as provided for in Chapter II herein.

3. Other administrative violations against regulations on environmental protection which are not prescribed in this Decree shall be governed by other relevant Government's decrees on penalties for administrative violations against regulations on state management.

This Decree takes effect as of February 01, 2017.

The Government’s Decree No. 179/2013/ND-CP dated November 14, 2013 providing for penalties for administrative violations against regulations on environmental protection shall be null and void as of the effective date of this Decree.

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