The Environmental Protection Bureau is a functional department of the government and has the highest relationship with the Ministry of Environmental Protection, which is managed by the State Council. Mainly responsible for: drafting national environmental protection guidelines, policies and regulations, and formulating administrative regulations; To guide and coordinate the solution of major environmental problems in various regions and departments, as well as across regions and basins; Responsible for environmental monitoring, statistics and information work; Formulate environmental monitoring systems and norms.
In order to strengthen environmental governance, improve environmental quality as the core, implement the strictest environmental protection system, and thoroughly implement the action plan for the prevention and control of air, water and soil pollution, the communiqué of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee proposed to implement a vertical management system for monitoring, supervision and law enforcement of environmental protection institutions below the provincial level. The vertical management of supervision and law enforcement means top-down supervision behaviors, such as the direct supervision of local governments by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and the supervision of lower-level cities by provincial environmental protection departments, and the intensity of accountability will increase. On the other hand, the local environmental supervision power has not been collected, and it is still a territorial management system. In the end, it will help to form a new model of environmental protection supervision that combines the main responsibility of enterprises, local government supervision and higher authorities supervision, which not only ensures the effect of environmental law enforcement, but also curbs local protectionism.
first
To formulate national guidelines, policies and regulations on environmental protection and formulate administrative rules and regulations; Entrusted by the State Council, conduct environmental impact assessment on major economic and technological policies, development plans and major economic development plans; To formulate a national environmental protection plan; Organize the formulation of pollution prevention and control plans and ecological protection plans for key areas and key river basins determined by the state, and supervise their implementation; Organize the preparation of environmental functional zoning.
second
To formulate and organize the implementation of laws and regulations on the prevention and control of air, water, soil, noise, solid waste, toxic chemicals and motor vehicles; Guide, coordinate and supervise marine environmental protection.
third
Supervise the development and utilization of natural resources, the construction of important ecological environment and the restoration of ecological damage that has an impact on the ecological environment; Supervise and inspect the environmental protection work of various nature reserves, scenic spots and forest parks; Supervise and inspect biodiversity protection and wildlife protection. Wetland environmental protection and desertification control; To put forward suggestions for the examination and approval of new national nature reserves to the State Council; Supervise and manage national nature reserves.
fourth
To guide and coordinate the solution of major environmental problems in various regions and departments, as well as across regions and basins; Investigate and deal with major environmental pollution accidents and ecological destruction events; Coordinate inter-provincial environmental pollution disputes; Organize and coordinate the prevention and control of water pollution in key river basins across the country; Responsible for environmental supervision and administrative inspection of environmental protection; Organize national environmental protection law enforcement inspection activities.
fifth
Formulate national environmental quality standards and pollutant discharge standards, and issue them according to the procedures prescribed by the state; Responsible for filing local environmental protection standards; Review the contents of environmental protection in the overall urban planning; Organizing the preparation of national environmental quality reports; Issue a national bulletin on the state of the environment; Regularly publish the environmental quality status of key cities and river basins; Participate in the preparation of national sustainable development planning.
sixth
Formulate and organize the implementation of various environmental management systems; Examining and approving the environmental impact report of development and construction activities in accordance with state regulations; Guide the comprehensive improvement of urban and rural environment; Responsible for rural ecological environment protection; Guide the construction of national ecological demonstration zones and ecological agriculture.
seventh
Organize environmental protection science and technology, major scientific research and technology demonstration projects; Manage the national environmental management system and environmental label certification; Establish and organize the implementation of environmental protection qualification accreditation system; Guide and promote the development of environmental protection industry.
eighth
Responsible for environmental monitoring, statistics and information work; Formulate environmental monitoring systems and norms; Organize the construction and management of the national environmental monitoring network and the national environmental information network; Organize national environmental quality monitoring and pollution source supervisory monitoring; Organize, guide and coordinate environmental protection publicity and education and press and publication; Promote public and non-governmental organizations to participate in environmental protection.
ninth
Formulate national basic principles on global environmental issues; Managing international cooperation and exchanges in environmental protection; Participate in and coordinate important international environmental protection activities; Participate in the negotiation of international environmental protection treaties; Manage, organize and coordinate the domestic implementation activities of international environmental protection treaties and unify external liaison; Foreign economic cooperation in managing environmental protection systems; To coordinate foreign capital utilization projects related to contract execution; Entrusted by the State Council to handle foreign-related environmental protection affairs; Responsible for liaison with international environmental protection organizations.
tenth
Responsible for nuclear safety, radiation environment and radioactive waste management, and formulate relevant guidelines, policies, regulations and standards; Participate in the emergency work of nuclear accidents and radiation environmental accidents; Unified supervision and management of nuclear facilities safety, electromagnetic radiation, nuclear technology application and pollution prevention in the development and utilization of radioactive mineral resources; Control of nuclear materials and safety supervision of nuclear pressure-bearing equipment.
eleventh
Responsible for the organization and personnel management of the General Administration; Organize the reform of the administrative system of the national environmental protection system.
twelfth
To undertake other tasks assigned by the State Council.