The two sessions pay attention to | Improve the quality of ecological and environmental law enforcement, and promote the realization of high-level protection

This year's government work report of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress put forward the need to promote comprehensive management of the ecological environment. We will thoroughly implement the action plan for continuous improvement of air quality, coordinate the management of water resources, water environment and water ecology, strengthen the prevention and control of soil pollution sources, and strengthen the control of solid waste, new pollutants and plastic pollution. This has clarified the goals and directions for the ecological environment system to do a good job this year.

Ecological and environmental law enforcement is the basic and protective work of ecological environmental protection, which provides strong support for all aspects of ecological and environmental protection. Under the new situation, how to further do a good job in ecological and environmental law enforcement and provide a strong guarantee for the continuous improvement of the quality of the ecological environment, the representatives and members of the two sessions talked about ideas and ideas around this topic.

Strictly enforce and supervise law enforcement and strengthen coordination and linkage

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Protect the ecological environment with the strictest system and the strictest rule of law." To protect the ecological environment, we must rely on institutions and the rule of law. "For a period of time, local ecological and environmental departments have deeply promoted the prevention and control of environmental pollution, always maintained a "zero tolerance" situation, and focused on guarding the bottom line of environmental quality, and severely cracked down on all kinds of ecological and environmental violations and crimes in accordance with the law.

Jiang Wei, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, said: "In 2023, we will include the fight against fraud in the field of carbon emissions into the annual special law enforcement plan, and 520 key emitting units and third-party verification units in the province have submitted carbon emission reports and verification reports in accordance with regulations. Fraud in the field of carbon emissions remains one of the priorities of law enforcement this year. ”

Since the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has become a national strategy, regional ecological and environmental governance has changed from a "one-man show" to a "symphony", including law enforcement. Yan Bo, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, said that in 2023, the ecological and environmental departments of Shanghai will handle a total of 1,281 administrative punishment cases, with a cumulative penalty of 107.07 million yuan. In addition, in terms of comprehensively promoting cooperation and cooperation in the ecological and environmental protection of the Yangtze River Delta region, Shanghai has taken the lead in establishing a comprehensive Yangtze River Delta regional ecological and environmental protection cooperation group. Promote joint prevention and control of water and environmental emergencies in the upstream and downstream of cross-provincial river basins, and carry out regional joint environmental law enforcement.

Deepening the convergence of the two laws will help form a joint force in law enforcement and intensify the crackdown on major and malicious environmental violations. "We continue to strengthen communication with public security organs, procuratorial organs, and examination and approval authorities, and establish a joint consultation mechanism. In 2023, the Provincial Procuratorate and the Provincial Public Security Department will continue to organize and carry out a severe crackdown on hazardous waste environmental violations and crimes and the falsification of automatic monitoring data of key pollutant discharge units, so as to effectively deter related illegal acts. Xu Xiaoxia, deputy to the National People's Congress, secretary of the party group and director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, said.

Optimize law enforcement methods and improve law enforcement efficiency

Ecological and environmental administrative law enforcement covers a wide range of fields, involves a large number of objects, and is closely related to the vital interests of the broad masses of the people, so it is necessary to continuously optimize law enforcement methods and comprehensively improve the efficiency of law enforcement work.

"In recent years, Guangdong Province has accelerated the implementation of off-site supervision, vigorously consolidated the off-site law enforcement foundation by means of online monitoring, organized 5,474 key units of the province's networking, 9,329 monitoring points, and explored 13,218 electricity, water and video surveillance in various places. Implement marking rules and electronic supervision, carry out industry-wide weekly early warning supervision of serious exceedances, and form a working system of 'weekly supervision, monthly notification' and on-site verification of key issues. Since 2023, a total of 688 enterprises have been effectively supervised, 605 have been rectified, and 83 have been punished. Xu Xiaoxia said.

In addition, relying on the framework of the ecological environment smart cloud platform and integrating the existing ecological environment law enforcement business system, Guangdong Province has built an environmental law enforcement platform that integrates functions such as "problem discovery coordination, on-site command and dispatch, standardized law enforcement inspection, data analysis and decision-making", promotes guided law enforcement through administrative inspection and case handling process templates, and realizes scientific early warning of environmental violation risks through big data analysis.

"In recent years, we have improved the enforcement list of pollutant discharge permits, clarified the needs of simplified management and information management of pollutant discharge permits, and embedded the improved pollutant discharge permit list into the mobile law enforcement system, which has greatly improved the law enforcement efficiency of front-line law enforcement officers. Jiang Wei said.

Zhong Chenglin, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, also said that Sichuan Province will continue to strengthen the supervision of the operation of automatic monitoring equipment for pollution sources, dynamically update and improve the list of law enforcement inspection objects, implement measurement and management coordination for key pollutant discharge units, and guide local governments to continuously implement the positive list of ecological and environmental law enforcement.

Standardize law enforcement efforts and improve law enforcement mechanisms

Ecological and environmental law enforcement is related to the effectiveness of ecological environmental law enforcement, the credibility of the Party and the government, and the people's sense of happiness under the rule of law. In recent years, local ecological and environmental departments have continuously improved the environmental law enforcement system and capacity building, continuously standardized law enforcement behaviors, improved the level of administration according to law, established a new image of law enforcement teams in the new era, and strictly regulated, fair and civilized law enforcement has been moving forward.

In 2023, Gansu Province will actively promote the construction of ecological and environmental law enforcement systems and mechanisms in light of the actual conditions of the province. The "List of Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Matters for Ecological and Environmental Protection in Gansu Province (2023 Edition)" was revised, and 25 new law enforcement matters and 19 implementation bases were added on the basis of the 2020 version, providing a basis for the province's ecological and environmental law enforcement agencies to perform their duties "according to the order". The "Gansu Provincial Provisions on the Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Responsibility System for Ecological and Environmental Protection" was promulgated to clarify the responsibilities and performance requirements of law enforcement, establish a system of due diligence exemption and accountability, and implement a list of law enforcement fault tolerances.

"On January 1, 2022, the "Provisions on the Discretionary Power of Ecological and Environmental Administrative Punishment in Guangdong Province" came into effect, which clearly states that the exercise of the discretionary power of ecological and environmental administrative punishment should follow the principle of legal administration, the principle of comprehensive discretion, the principle of proportionality of punishment, the principle of openness, fairness and justice, and the principle of combining punishment and education. In 2023, the province will handle 1,697 cases of exemption from punishment, with a total of 240 million yuan in fines, which has played a good role. Xu Xiaoxia introduced, "In addition, we have also accelerated the implementation of the guidance system for typical law enforcement cases. In 2023, a total of 69 typical cases will be released in the province, and through typical cases, the experience and practices that can be promoted will be extracted, which has played a good role in guiding and publicizing. ”