Business Intelligence Service for Environmental Compliance
Sri Lanka
January 20th, 2021 On December 24, 2020, Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Environment has released a draft National Policy on Chemicals Management. The draft policy addresses the life cycle management of chemicals, covering toxic …
China
January 15th, 2021 China’s General Administration of Customs on December 18, 2020 published the Announcement on Issues concerning Inspection and Supervision of Imported and Exported Hazardous Chemicals and Their Packaging (General Administration of …
China
December 14th, 2020 On November 25, 2020, the Standing Committee of the State Council of China approved the bill to amend the Production Safety Law, and decided to request the National People’s Congress, …
China
December 11th, 2020 China’s Ministry of Commerce and State Taxation Administration announced the revision of the List of Prohibited Products for Processing Trade on November 5, 2020. The revised list will come into …
China
November 30th, 2020 On 16 November, 2020, China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment published a revision of the Guidance on New Chemical Substance Environmental Management Registration (Announcement No. 51 of 2020) and relevant …
China
November 30th, 2020 On November 6, 2020, China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment released the “Technical Guidelines for Ecological and Environmental Impact Analysis for Economic and Technological Policies (Trial)”. The guideline sets out …
China
November 20th, 2020 On November 2, 2020, China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment released the Management Measures on National Carbon Trading (trial implementation; draft for comments) and Management Measures on Registration, Transactions and …
China
November 16th, 2020 The 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) adopted the CPC Central Committee’s Proposals for the Formulation of the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social …
Thailand
November 10th, 2020 Thailand announced “Notification of Director-General of Revenue Department (No. 388) regarding Categories, Criteria, Procedures, and Conditions on Exemption of Corporate Income Tax for Expenses against Biodegradable Plastic Products” in the …
China
October 31st, 2020 On September 18, 2020, Guangdong Province, China released “Guangdong Provincial Measures on Compensation for Ecological and Environmental Damage(Trial)”. The Measures stipulate the work process of the compensation parties, case …
China
October 31st, 2020 On October 13, 2020, Ministry of Emergency Management of the Peoples’ Republic of China published “Measures on Hazardous Chemical Enterprises’ Responsibility System for the Safety of Major Hazard Sources (Trial)” …
China
October 31st, 2020 On September 28, 2020, in order to implement effective sanctions against discrediting acts in the field of safe production and to improve the current management system for the list of …
Vietnam
October 28th, 2020 On October 28, 2020, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam issued the “Decision 2395/QD-BTNMT of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (hereinafter referred to as this …
China
October 26th, 2020 On September 24, 2020, the government of Zhejiang Province, China issued the Regulation of Zhejiang Province on Water Resources. It will come into force on January 1, 2021. The new …
India
October 17th, 2020 On October 17, 2020, India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change published the “Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Amendment Rules, 2020” to amend the state government’s …
China
October 13th, 2020 On September 21, 2020, the Provincial Development and Reform Commission and the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment of Guangdong released the “Catalogue of Plastic Products Restricted and Prohibited …
China
October 13th, 2020 On September 11, 2020, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China announced the Guidance on Optimization and Improvement of Environmental Protection Enforcement (draft for comments) to collect opinions. …
India
October 7th, 2020 On October 7, 2020, the Press Information Bureau of India reported that the Union Cabinet has approved the ratification of seven persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on the Stockholm Convention list. …
China
September 26th, 2020 On August 15, 2020, the Bureau of Ecology and Environment of Guangdong Province, China announced the Guidelines for Companies and Public institutions in Guangdong Province on Development of Emergency …
Thailand
September 18th, 2020 On 1 September 2020, the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) announced “Regulations of the Board of Directors of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand: Governing Rules, Procedures and Conditions …
Vietnam
September 8th, 2020 Vietnam enacted “Decision No. 1375/QD-TTg on approval of environmental protection plans in the fields of industry and trade in the period of 2020-2025” on September 8, 2020. This decision sets …
Thailand
August 28th, 2020 Department of Industrial Works (DIW), Ministry of Industry, Thailand announced “Notification of Department of Industrial Works (B.E. 2563 (2020)): Standard of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR-DIW)” dated on 2 June 2020. …
Vietnam
August 20th, 2020 On August 20th, 2020, Vietnam legislated the “Directive 33/CT-TTg on strengthening reuse, recycle, treatment and reduction of plastic waste”, setting the policy for promulgating various new regulations or amending existing …
Thailand
August 19th, 2020 On the last month article, we discussed the details of Pollution Control Department’s 3-year action plan (2020 – 2022) which will be used as an instrument to drive the national …
India
August 11th, 2020 On August 11, 2020, India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry published the notification on amending import policy of 2015-2020 Foreign Trade Policy including the ban on the import of HCFC-141b. …
Thailand
July 21st, 2020 Department of Industrial Works (DIW), Ministry of Industry, Thailand officially announced its existing chemicals inventory for the first time by the notification dated on 22 June 2020. The inventory, which …
Vietnam
July 20th, 2020 On July 20, 2020, the Prime Minister Decision “No. 1055/QD-TTg on the national plan for climate change adaptation for the period of 2021-2030 with a vision to 2050” were enacted, …
Thailand
July 17th, 2020 In Thailand, Royal Decree on Good Governance and Administrative Procedures (No. 2) B.E. 2562, required all government agencies to prepare its own action plan. By establishing a five-year plan which …
Thailand
June 29th, 2020 On May 28, 2020, the Thai Ministry of Industry promulgated “Ministry of Industry Notification: Types of Raw Materials Used at Factories and their Sources B.E. 2563 (2020)” in the Royal …
Japan
June 24th, 2020 In Japan, a decree partially amending the Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Designation Order was promulgated in the Official Gazette on June 24, 2020, and came into force on July 1, …
India
June 19th, 2020 On June 8, 2020, the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) published its Annual Report for 2019 (hereinafter referred to as the “Report”). This report covers a …
Vietnam
March 18th, 2020 In Vietnam, on 18th March, 2020, the “Prime Minister’s Decision No.09/2020/QD-TTg on measures to respond to waste incidents” was enacted. This decision was made to prepare and organize the response …
India
November 22nd, 2019 On November 22, 2019, India’s Press Information Bureau reported that central government has undertaken various regulatory measures for prevention, control and abatement of air pollution. For instance, Action Plans for …
India
October 24th, 2019 On October 24, 2019, India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry published the notification for prohibiting import of PET flakes made from used PET bottles in 2015-2020 Foreign Trade Policy. The …