FROM 2022, THE RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY IS CONSIDERED AS A SUBJECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
On November 17, 2020, the National Assembly issues the Law on Environmental Protection No. 72/2020/QH14.
Accordingly, the Law adds the residential community into the scope of regulation and subjects of application in order to affirm position and role of this subject in protection of environment. Prohibited acts in environmental protection include: Transporting, burying, overwhelming, discharging, burning solid and hazardous wastes in contravention of technical process and law provisions on environmental protection; Discharging wastewater and gas emissions not yet treated in accordance with environmental technical regulations into the environment, etc.
The grant of an environmental permit commences since a complete and valid dossier is received, with the time limit as specified as follows: No more than 45 days for the environmental permits to be granted under the competence of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Security; No more than 30 days for the environmental permits to be granted under the competence of the provincial- or district-level People's Committees, etc.
Besides, environmental criteria for classifying investment projects include: scale, capacity, and type of production, business and service; area of land use, area of land with water surface, sea area; scale of natural resource exploitation; environmentally vulnerable elements, including concentrated residential areas; water source used as domestic water supply; natural reserves defined by the law provisions on biodiversity and fisheries; types of forests defined by the law provisions on forestry; physical cultural heritages, other natural heritages; land for wet rice cultivation with 02 crops or more, etc.
This Law takes effect on January 01, 2022.
