Environmental monitoring center refers to a professional organization established by the environmental protection department, whose main responsibilities include: monitoring environmental quality, predicting environmental conditions, releasing environmental information, evaluating environmental risks, and proposing environmental policy suggestions. Through real-time, fixed-point and quantitative monitoring of environmental factors, environmental pollution can be found in time and countermeasures can be taken in time to provide scientific basis and decision support for environmental protection and management. The environmental monitoring center mainly has several functions: 1. Monitor the level of environmental quality, grasp the trend of environmental change and evaluate environmental pollution; 2. Provide environmental consultation, environmental protection policies and planning suggestions; 3. Release environmental information to the public, popularize common sense of environmental protection, and enhance social participation; 4. Participate in emergency environmental protection work and provide scientific basis and technical support. Through the work of environmental monitoring center, the environmental quality and pollution sources can be clearly defined, which has an important reference role in formulating specific environmental protection policies.
How to ensure the independence of environmental monitoring center? In order to ensure the independence of the environmental monitoring center, it is necessary to establish and improve the mechanism and rules and regulations to ensure that its duties are not affected by any individual or unit. Specific measures include: defining the organization and responsibilities of environmental monitoring center, establishing environmental monitoring procedures and standards, strengthening supervision and management, realizing the openness and transparency of monitoring results, and establishing the qualification certification system for environmental monitoring professionals.
Environmental monitoring center is an important part of environmental protection. By establishing a perfect monitoring mechanism and management system, we can effectively grasp the environmental conditions and pollution sources, and provide strong support and guarantee for formulating scientific environmental protection policies.
Legal basis:
Article 9 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Environmental Protection Law People's governments at all levels shall strengthen the publicity and popularization of environmental protection, encourage grassroots mass autonomous organizations, social organizations and environmental protection volunteers to publicize environmental protection laws and regulations and environmental protection knowledge, and create a good atmosphere for environmental protection. Education administrative departments and schools should incorporate environmental protection knowledge into school education content and cultivate students' awareness of environmental protection. The news media should publicize environmental protection laws and regulations and environmental protection knowledge, and supervise environmental violations by public opinion.