Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution

第二章 大气污染防治的监督管理

Chapter II Supervision and Management of the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution

第十一条 新建、扩建、改建向大气排放污染物的项目，必须遵守国家有关建设项目环境保护管理的规定。

Article 11 New construction projects, expansion or reconstruction projects which discharge atmospheric pollutants shall be governed by the State regulations concerning environmental protection for such projects.

建设项目的环境影响报告书，必须对建设项目可能产生的大气污染和对生态环境的影响作出评价，规定防治措施，并按照规定的程序报环境保护行政主管部门审查批准。

An environmental impact statement on construction projects shall include an assessment of the atmospheric pollution the project is likely to produce and its impact on the ecosystem, stipulate the preventive and curative measures. The statement shall be submitted, according to the specified procedure, to the administrative department of environmental protection concerned for examination and approval.

建设项目投入生产或者使用之前，其大气污染防治设施必须经过环境保护行政主管部门验收，达不到国家有关建设项目环境保护管理规定的要求的建设项目，不得投入生产或者使用。

When a construction project is to be put into operation or to use, its facilities for the prevention of atmospheric pollution must be checked and accepted by the administrative department of environmental protection. Construction projects that do not fulfill the requirements specified in the State regulations concerning environmental protection for such construction projects shall not be permitted to begin operation or to use.

第十二条 向大气排放污染物的单位，必须按照国务院环境保护行政主管部门的规定向所在地的环境保护行政主管部门申报拥有的污染物排放设施、处理设施和在正常作业条件下排放污染物的种类、数量、浓度，并提供防治大气污染方面的有关技术资料。

Article 12 Units that discharge atmospheric pollutants must, pursuant to the provisions of the administrative department of environmental protection under the State Council, report to the local administrative department of environmental protection its existing discharge and treatment facilities for pollutants and the categories, quantities and concentrations of pollutants discharged under normal operation conditions and submit to the same department relevant technical data concerning the prevention and control of atmospheric pollution.

前款规定的排污单位排放大气污染物的种类、数量、浓度有重大改变的，应当及时申报；

Units that discharge pollutants as specified in the preceding paragraph shall report in due time about any substantial change in the category, quantity or concentration of the atmospheric pollutants discharged.

其大气污染物处理设施必须保持正常使用，拆除或者闲置大气污染物处理设施的，必须事先报经所在地的县级以上地方人民政府环境保护行政主管部门批准。

Their atmospheric pollutant treatment facilities must ensure normal operations. Where the said facilities are to be dismantled or left idle, approval of the local administrative department of environmental protection under the people's government above the county level shall be obtained in advance.

第十三条 向大气排放污染物的，其污染物排放浓度不得超过国家和地方规定的排放标准。

Article 13 Where atmospheric pollutants are discharged, the concentration of the said pollutants may not exceed the standards prescribed by the State and local authorities.

第十四条 国家实行按照向大气排放污染物的种类和数量征收排污费的制度，根据加强大气污染防治的要求和国家的经济、技术条件合理制定排污费的征收标准。

Article 14 The State implements a system of collecting fees for discharging pollutants on the basis of the categories and quantities of the atmospheric pollutants discharged, and establishing reasonable standards for collecting the fees therefor according to the needs of strengthening prevention and control of atmospheric pollution and the State's economic and technological conditions.

征收排污费必须遵守国家规定的标准，具体办法和实施步骤由国务院规定。

The standards provided by the State shall be observed in the collection of fees for discharge of pollutants, the concrete measures therefor and. State Council shall enact the implementing procedures

征收的排污费一律上缴财政，按照国务院的规定用于大气污染防治，不得挪作他用，并由审计机关依法实施审计监督。

The fees collected for discharge of pollutants shall all be turned over to the Treasury and shall be used for the prevention and control of atmospheric pollution as prescribed by the State Council and may not be misappropriated. The auditing authorities shall exercise supervision through auditing according to law.

第十五条 国务院和省、自治区、直辖市人民政府对尚未达到规定的大气环境质量标准的区域和国务院批准划定的酸雨控制区、二氧化硫污染控制区，可以划定为主要大气污染物排放总量控制区。

Article 15 With regard to the regions not meeting the prescribed standards for the quality of atmospheric environment and the acid rain control areas and the sulfur dioxide pollution control areas designated as such with the approval of the State Council, the State Council or the people's government of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may delimit them as the major areas for the total emission control air pollutants .

主要大气污染物排放总量控制的具体办法由国务院规定。

The concrete measures for the State Council shall prescribe the total emission control of major air pollutants.

大气污染物总量控制区内有关地方人民政府依照国务院规定的条件和程序，按照公开、公平、公正的原则，核定企业事业单位的主要大气污染物排放总量，核发主要大气污染物排放许可证。

The local people's government concerned in the areas for the control of total emission of air pollutants shall check and approve the total emission of major air pollutants by enterprises and institutions and issue them licenses for emission of major air pollutants. It shall do this in accordance with the conditions and procedures provided by the State Council and in line with the principles of openness, fairness and impartiality.

有大气污染物总量控制任务的企业事业单位，必须按照核定的主要大气污染物排放总量和许可证规定的排放条件排放污染物。

The enterprises and institutions obliged to control their total emission of air pollutants must emit their pollutants according to the checked and approved standards for the total emission of major air pollutants and the conditions of emission provided by the license.

第十六条 在国务院和省、自治区、直辖市人民政府划定的风景名胜区、自然保护区、文物保护单位附近地区和其他需要特别保护的区域内，不得建设污染环境的工业生产设施；

Article 16 No industrial production facilities that cause environmental pollution shall be built within scenic spots or places of historical interest, natural reserves, areas close to historical or cultural sites under protection and other places that need special protection, as designated by the State Council or the people's government of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.

建设其他设施，其污染物排放不得超过规定的排放标准。

Other facilities to be built in these areas must not emit air pollutants in access of the prescribed standards for pollutant discharge.

在本法施行前企业事业单位已经建成的设施，其污染物排放超过规定的排放标准的，依照本法第四十八条的规定限期治理。

Enterprises and institutions which built before the enforcement of this Law, with facilities discharging more pollutants than permitted by the prescribed discharge standards shall be ordered to dealt with within a period of time in accordance with the provisions of Article 48 of this Law.

第十七条 国务院按照城市总体规划、环境保护规划目标和城市大气环境质量状况，划定大气污染防治重点城市。

Article 17 The State Council shall, in accordance with the general plan for urban development, the target of the environment protection plan and the quality of the urban atmospheric environment, designate some cities as key cities for the control of air pollution.

直辖市、省会城市、沿海开放城市和重点旅游城市应当列入大气污染防治重点城市。

Municipalities directly under the Central Government, provincial capitals, coastal open cities and key tourist cities shall be designated as key cities for the control of air pollution.

未达到大气环境质量标准的大气污染防治重点城市，应当按照国务院或者国务院环境保护行政主管部门规定的期限，达到大气环境质量标准。

Where key cities for the control of air pollution do not meet the standards for the quality of the atmospheric environment, they shall endeavor to meet such standards within the time limit prescribed by the State Council or the administrative department of environmental protection under the State Council.

该城市人民政府应当制定限期达标规划，并可以根据国务院的授权或者规定，采取更加严格的措施，按期实现达标规划。

The people's government of such a city shall make plans to meet the standards within the time limit, and may, in line with the authorization or relevant regulations of the State Council, adopt even more stringent measures to realize such plans.

第十八条 国务院环境保护行政主管部门会同国务院有关部门，根据气象、地形、土壤等自然条件，可以对已经产生、可能产生酸雨的地区或者其他二氧化硫污染严重的地区，经国务院批准后，划定为酸雨控制区或者二氧化硫污染控制区。

Article 18 The administrative department of environmental protection under the State Council together with relevant departments under the State Council may, in light of the meteorological, topographical, soil and other natural conditions, delimit the areas where acid rain has occurred or will probably occur and areas that are seriously polluted by sulfur dioxide as acid rain control areas and sulfur dioxide pollution control areas with the approval the State Council.

第十九条 企业应当优先采用能源利用效率高、污染物排放量少的清洁生产工艺，减少大气污染物的产生。

Article 19 Enterprises shall give priority to the adoption of clean production techniques that are instrumental to high efficient use of energy and to reducing the discharge of pollutants so as to decrease the generation of atmospheric pollutants.

国家对严重污染大气环境的落后生产工艺和严重污染大气环境的落后设备实行淘汰制度。

The State shall eliminate backward production techniques and equipment that seriously pollutes the atmospheric environment.

国务院经济综合主管部门会同国务院有关部门公布限期禁止采用的严重污染大气环境的工艺名录和限期禁止生产、禁止销售、禁止进口、禁止使用的严重污染大气环境的设备名录。

The competent department for comprehensive economic and trade affairs under the State Council, in conjunction with other relevant departments under the State Council, shall publish a catalog of the techniques which seriously pollute the atmospheric environment ones that shall be prohibited from use within a time limit. It shall also catalog the equipment which seriously pollutes the atmospheric environment and which shall be prohibited from production, sale, import and use within a time limit.

生产者、销售者、进口者或者使用者必须在国务院经济综合主管部门会同国务院有关部门规定的期限内分别停止生产、销售、进口或者使用列入前款规定的名录中的设备。

Producers, sellers, importers or users shall stop the production, sale, importation or use of the equipment listed in the catalog as mentioned in the preceding paragraph. This must be done within the time limit prescribed by the competent department for comprehensive economic and trade affairs under the State Council in conjunction with the relevant departments under the State Council.

生产工艺的采用者必须在国务院经济综合主管部门会同国务院有关部门规定的期限内停止采用列入前款规定的名录中的工艺。

People who utilizes the production techniques listed in the catalog as mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall, within the time limit prescribed by the competent department for comprehensive economic affairs under the State Council in conjunction with the relevant departments under the State Council, stop the use of such techniques.

依照前两款规定被淘汰的设备，不得转让给他人使用。

The equipment eliminated in accordance with the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs may not be transferred to another for use.

第二十条 单位因发生事故或者其他突然性事件，排放和泄漏有毒有害气体和放射性物质，造成或者可能造成大气污染事故、危害人体健康的，必须立即采取防治大气污染危害的应急措施，通报可能受到大气污染危害的单位和居民，并报告当地环境保护行政主管部门，接受调查处理。

Article 20 Any unit that, as a result of an accident or any other exigency, discharges or leaks toxic or harmful gases or radioactive substances, thereby causing or threatening to cause an accident of atmospheric pollution and jeopardize human health, must promptly take emergency measures to prevent and control the atmospheric pollution hazards, make the situation known to such units and inhabitants as are likely to be endangered by the atmospheric pollution hazards, report the situation to the local administrative department of environmental protection and accept its investigation and settlement.

在大气受到严重污染，危害人体健康和安全的紧急情况下，当地人民政府应当及时向当地居民公告，采取强制性应急措施，包括责令有关排污单位停止排放污染物。

Under the emergency of a severe atmospheric pollution that may jeopardize human health and safety, the local people's government shall announce the situation to the local residents without delay and take compulsory emergency measures, including ordering the pollutant discharging units concerned to stop the discharge of pollutants.

第二十一条 环境保护行政主管部门和其他监督管理部门有权对管辖范围内的排污单位进行现场检查，

Article 21 The administrative department of environmental protection and other supervisory and administrative departments shall be empowered to make on-site inspections of units under their jurisdiction that discharge pollutants.

被检查单位必须如实反映情况，提供必要的资料。

The units being inspected must truthfully report the situation to them and provide them with the necessary information.

检查部门有义务为被检查单位保守技术秘密和业务秘密。

The inspecting authorities shall have the obligation to keep confidential the technological know-how and business secrets of the units inspected.

第二十二条 国务院环境保护行政主管部门建立大气污染监测制度，组织监测网络，制定统一的监测方法。

Article 22 The administrative department of environmental protection under the State Council shall set up a monitoring system for atmospheric pollution, organize a monitoring network and work out unified monitoring measures.

第二十三条 大、中城市人民政府环境保护行政主管部门应当定期发布大气环境质量状况公报，并逐步开展大气环境质量预报工作。

Article 23 The administrative department of environmental protection under the people's governments of large and medium-sized cities shall regularly publish reports on the quality of the atmospheric environment and gradually introduce the system of forecasting the quality of atmospheric environment.

大气环境质量状况公报应当包括城市大气环境污染特征、主要污染物的种类及污染危害程度等内容。

A report on the quality of the atmospheric environment shall include such contents as the characteristics of urban atmospheric pollution, the types of major pollutants and the extent of harm caused by the pollution.