The People's Republic of China State Council
No. 508

Are published "China Pollution Source Census Ordinance," shall come into force from the date of publication.

Premier Wen Jiabao

October 9, 2007 

China Pollution Source Census Ordinance

Chapter I General Provisions

The first order scientific and effective implementation of the national census on pollution sources to organize, protect the source census data accuracy and timeliness, according to the "PRC Statistics Law" and "The People's Republic of China Environmental Protection Law," regulations are formulated.

The second source census task is to grasp the number of various sources of pollution, industry and regional distribution, understanding the emergence of major pollutants, emissions and deal with the situation, the establishment of key pollution sources and improve Dangan, sources of information, and environment statistics database platform for the development of the economy social development and environmental protection policies, planning decisions.

Article The term pollution refers to the result of the production, life and other activities, emissions of pollutants to the environment or adverse effects on the environment places, facilities, installations and other sources of pollution occur.

Article in accordance with the national unified leadership of the pollution source census, department division of labor, the local classification for all parties to participate in the implementation of the principles of organization.

Article source census requirements, the central and local governments share the burden, and included in the corresponding year's budget, on time allocation, to ensure full.

Census funding sources should be unified management, earmarking, strict control of expenditure.

Article VI of the national pollution census conducted every 10 years 1 standard point for the census year on Dec. 31.

Article VII of the press, radio, television and the Internet and other news media sources should be promptly carried out the census publicity coverage.

Chapter pollution survey object, scope, content and methods

Article VIII of the object is The People's Republic of China Pollution Source Census sources within the territory of the unit and individual business households.

Article pollution sources census survey objects obligation to accept the leading group office, according to a survey conducted by the census personnel, and accurately reflect the situation, provide relevant information, in accordance with the requirements for filing a pollution source census form.

Pollution survey objects not delaying making false entries and refuse to census data; not procrastinate, refuse and obstruct the investigation; shall not transfer, conceal, tamper with, to destroy records of raw material consumption, production records, running records pollutant treatment facilities, pollutant emissions monitoring records and other pollutants in the original production and emissions data.

Article source census include: industrial pollution, agricultural pollution, pollution of life, centralized pollution treatment facilities and other production, emissions of pollutants facilities.

Article industrial pollution survey include the following: enterprise basic registration information, raw material consumption, product production, resulting in contamination of the installations of all kinds of pollutants generated, management, emissions and utilization situation, all kinds of pollution control facilities , running, and so on.

The main pollution source census of agriculture include: the scale of agricultural production, water, drainage, fertilizer, pesticide, feed and feed additives and agricultural film other agricultural inputs use, straw and other crop residue management as well as aquaculture production of pollutants, governance and so on.

The main sources of life survey include: working in the tertiary industry in the unit's basic conditions and pollutant generation, emission, governance, motor vehicle emissions of pollutants, Cheng Zhen life energy structure and energy consumption, life Yongshui Liang, displacement and emissions and other pollutants.

Centralized pollution treatment facilities survey include the following: the basic situation of facilities and operating conditions, pollution treatment and disposal conditions, leachate, sludge, waste incineration residues and the generation, disposal and use situation.

Article XII of the specific scope of each pollution source and content of the census, census program approved by the State Council to determine.

Article XIII comprehensive survey of pollution sources survey methods used, if necessary, sampling methods can be used.

Pollution source census with the national uniform standards and technical requirements.

Chapter organization and implementation of pollution source census

Article XIV of the national census on pollution sources leading group responsible for leading and coordinating the work of the national census on pollution sources.

The national census on pollution sources in the State Council Leading Group Office of the environmental protection departments, responsible for the national census on pollution sources in their work.

15th local people's governments above the county level pollution source census leading group, in accordance with the China Pollution Source Census Leading Group on provisions and requirements of leadership and coordination of the administrative regions of pollution sources census.

Pollution survey local people's governments above the county level leading group office of the environmental protection departments at the same level, responsible for the administrative regions of pollution sources census daily work.

Township (town) people's governments, neighborhood offices and village (residence) committee should be to mobilize and organize the community to actively participate in and do a good job pollution source census.

16th people's government above the county level environmental protection departments and other departments concerned, in accordance with the division of responsibilities and sources Census Leading Group on request, make pollution survey related work.

Article XVII program by the China Pollution Source Census Leading Group Office of the China Pollution Source Census prepared by the China Pollution Source Census Leading Group for approval to the State Council for approval.

China Pollution Source Census program should include: the specific scope and content of the Census, Census of major pollutants, survey methods, survey implementation, and budget and other organizations.

Development of a national pollution census program, should listen to the views of relevant departments and experts.

18th The National Census Leading Group Office of the pollution sources under the China Pollution Source Census survey form programming sources, reported the State Statistics Bureau approval.

Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities source census leading group office, can require the creation of regional pollution sources census schedule of the Chief of the National Pollution Source Census Leading Group Office for approval before use.

Article XIX start-up phase in the survey, pollution sources census leading group of units of inventory carried.

Institutions above the county level establishment, civil affairs, industry and commerce, quality inspection and other powers to set up approval and registration functions of the department, should be sources of pollution to the same level Census Leading Group Office to provide its approval or registration of the unit information and to help with the inventory of work units .

Source Census Leading Group Office of the existing administrative areas should be the basic unit of directory database, based on national census on pollution sources in accordance with the program to determine the specific scope of the pollution sources census, combined with relevant units to provide information on the sources one by one to verify the inventory of pollution sources census form Unit Directory.

Diershitiao included in the scope of pollution survey of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises, should be clearly relevant agencies responsible for the pollution sources census form enterprise reporting work, other units should be designated personnel responsible for the pollution sources census form complete units of work.

Twenty-one pollution source census can work leading group office needs, employment or secondment of personnel from the units of pollution sources in the census.

Source Census Leading Group Office and the employment of staff should sign labor contracts according to law, the remuneration of labor and social insurance for its handling. Secondment of staff salaries paid by the original unit, the benefits remain unchanged.

Twenty-two census personnel should seek truth from facts, abide by professional ethics, with implementation of the survey tasks required expertise.

Pollution source census leading group of business on the census personnel training, passed the examination of a unified national census takers issued a work permit.

Article 3 shall independently exercise census personnel investigation, reporting, monitoring and inspection functions, have access to census records the object's raw material consumption, production records, running records of pollutant treatment facilities, emission monitoring records and other pollutants generated and emissions related to raw data, and the right to object to correct the census survey of pollution sources in their reporting table untrue, incomplete content.

Twenty-four survey personnel should strictly enforce the China Pollution Source Census programs may not be forged, tampered with census data, may not compel or prompt provision of false census survey objects.

Census officers pollution-finding mission, not less than 2, and should produce census takers work permit; not produce a work permit for the census takers, census objects can refuse to accept the investigation.

Article 5 shall be according to census personnel direct access to survey objects, fill objects guidance sources census survey form. Upon completion of census forms filled sources, should be signed or sealed by the survey confirmed the object. Survey of its object should be signed or sealed responsible for the authenticity of the census data.

Source Census Leading Group Office of its registration, entry of census data and census data object consistency reported for the census and its processing, finishing responsible for the accuracy of census data.

Source Census Leading Group Office of registration, entry, processing and finishing the process of census data, census data of doubt, the object should be to verify the census, census object shall speak the truth or corrections.

Twenty-six localities, departments and units are not permitted to modify the sources responsible for leading group office of the census, census of pollution sources according to law to obtain census data; may compel or prompt the Leading Group Office of Pollution Source Census, census personnel to forge or tamper with the census information; shall not refuse, resist the forgery or tampering with data of census personnel retaliation.

Chapter IV data processing and quality control

第二 17 source census leading group of the program in accordance with the national census on pollution sources and related standards, technical requirements for data processing, and timely reporting of census data.

第二 18 Source Census Leading Group Office of the pollution sources census data should be good backup and data warehousing work, establish a sound database of information sources, and strengthen the daily management and maintenance updates.

第二 19 source census leading group of the program in accordance with the national census on pollution sources, pollution sources census data to establish quality control of personal responsibility, and surveys carried out every aspect of quality control and inspection and acceptance.

Pollution sources census data do not meet national pollution census program, or related standards, technical requirements, on a survey of pollution sources leading group office can request a survey of pollution sources to re-survey the leading group office, to ensure the consistency of census data, the authenticity and validity of .

The third 10 China Pollution Source Census Leading Group Office of the unified organization of the pollution sources census data quality checks. Verification of results as the assessment of the country or in the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities an important source of pollution based on the quality of census data.

Pollution sources census data quality do not meet requirements, and the pollution sources census leading group of the leading group in the national census on pollution sources within the specified time the office re-survey of pollution sources.

Chapter V data dissemination, data management and application development

第三十一条 China Pollution Source Census Bulletin, the leading group under the China Pollution Source Census published decision.

Local pollution sources census bulletin, on a pollution survey by the Leading Group Office approved the release.

12 census object provides information and sources Census Leading Group Office of the processing, sorting the information classified as state secrets, shall indicate the level of secret and confidential in accordance with relevant state regulations.

Source Census Leading Group Office, census officials noted in the census on pollution sources in the commercial secrets of the census objects, has a duty of confidentiality.

13 Source Census Leading Group Office shall establish a pollution source census data file management system. Pollution sources census data file storage, call and file transfer should comply with relevant state regulations.

34th State shall establish pollution sources census data information sharing system.

Source Census Leading Group Office of the sources of information in the database should be established based on the pollution sources census data and information sharing platform for the development and application of survey results.

15 single pollution source census survey data object for the pollution sources census strictly limited purposes, not as an object evaluation survey is complete the total pollutant reduction plan is based, may not be used in accordance with other laws and administrative regulations of the census administrative object penalties and sewage charges basis.

Chapter VI recognize and Punishment

census in pollution have made outstanding contributions to the collective and individual, should be commended and rewarded.

The local 37th, departments, or units of any of the following acts shall be punished by the statistical agencies above the county level will be criticized; constitutes a crime, criminal liability:

(A) modify the pollution sources census data without authorization;

(B) compel or prompt source census leading group office, forged or tampered with census personnel census data;

(C) to reject and resist counterfeit or tamper with data of the census staff against retaliation.

第三 18 census staff does not perform screening program, or forgery, tampering with the census data, or force, and authorized the census to provide false data of the object, he shall be punished.

Source Census Leading Group Office, the census surveys knows who leak trade secrets census objects, the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible persons shall be punished; on the survey object damage, shall bear civil liability. 

19 pollution source census objects, one of the following acts, pollution census leading group office shall promptly inform the same level government statistical agencies of the situation, put forward opinions, people's governments above the county level shall order to correct statistical agencies, will be criticized ; circumstances are serious, can be proposed directly in charge and other directly responsible persons shall be punished:

(A) delaying making false entries or refusing to report pollution sources census data;

(B) of the buck, according to census personnel refusing or obstructing the investigation;

(C) remove, conceal, tamper with, to destroy records of raw material consumption, production records, running records of pollutant treatment facilities, emission monitoring records as well as other production and emission of pollutants related to the original material.

Unit acts listed in the first paragraph of this article, and by the statistical agencies above the county level shall be warning, and may be fined 50,000 yuan.

Self-employed households in the first paragraph of the acts listed above the county level people's government statistical agencies to be warning, and may be fined 10,000 yuan.

Fourth survey of 10 leading group office of pollution sources should be set up to report telephone and mail, accept the community census of pollution sources monitoring and prosecution of the violations, and prosecution of persons shall be given meritorious awards, on the prosecution of the offense, shall be investigated according to law .

Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions
army, armed police forces of the pollution sources census, by the People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department in accordance with State regulations and requirements of the organization and implementation.

Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps of the pollution sources census, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in accordance with State regulations and requirements of the organization and implementation.

42nd These regulations come into force from the date of publication