What are responsibilities of airport operators regarding wastewater control at airports and aerodromes in Vietnam?

What are responsibilities of airport operators regarding wastewater control at airports and aerodromes in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 11 of the Circular 52/2022/TT-BGTVT (takes effect from 01/03/2023) stipulating responsibilities of airport operators regarding wastewater control at airports and aerodromes in Vietnam as follows:

1. Airport operators are responsible for:

a) enforcing regulations on wastewater collection, treatment, and drainage under Article 7 hereof;

b) guiding aviation-related service providers to collect, treat, and monitor wastewater quality in accordance with National technical regulation on wastewater prior to releasing. Adopting solutions for preventing direct or indirect leak of fuel, grease, oil, and chemicals into surrounding areas during operations;

c) disinfecting wastewater from aircrafts as per the law prior to treatment upon receiving warning sent by international medical inspection authority at airports pertaining to dangerous infectious diseases.

2. Aviation-related service providers are responsible for:

a) adhering to National technical regulation on wastewater prior to discharging;

b) connecting wastewater drainage system to general wastewater drainage system of airports and aerodromes or local drainage network if allowed by local authority.

3. Aircraft maintenance facilities, vehicle and equipment maintenance facilities at airports and aerodromes are responsible for developing and adopting solutions for minimizing water pollution, including:

a) preventing direct or indirect leak of fuel, grease, oil, chemicals out of airports and aerodromes during aircraft maintenance, operation of vehicles and equipment;

b) separating grease and oil from wastewater released during aircraft, vehicle, equipment maintenance activities before releasing into wastewater collection and treatment system of the airports and aerodromes;

c) performing maintenance and cleaning of aircrafts, vehicles, and equipment where systems for collecting and separating grease and oil from wastewater are installed.

4. Aircraft operators are responsible for treating or requesting competent entities to collect and treat liquid waste from aircrafts; making sure that liquid waste from aircrafts are treated in accordance with environmental protection laws.

As regulations above, airport operators are responsible for:

+ enforcing regulations on wastewater collection, treatment, and drainage

+ guiding aviation-related service providers to collect, treat, and monitor wastewater quality in accordance with National technical regulation on wastewater prior to releasing. Adopting solutions for preventing direct or indirect leak of fuel, grease, oil, and chemicals into surrounding areas during operations;

+ disinfecting wastewater from aircrafts as per the law prior to treatment upon receiving warning sent by international medical inspection authority at airports pertaining to dangerous infectious diseases.

In Vietnam: Are airport operators responsible for collecting, segregating, recycling, and reusing disposable plastic waste?

Pursuant to Clause 3 Article 12 of the Circular 52/2022/TT-BGTVT (takes effect from 01/03/2023) stipulating municipal solid waste control at airports and aerodromes in Vietnam as follows:

Municipal solid waste control at airports and aerodromes

1. Airport operators and aviation-related service providers where municipal solid wastes are produced at airports and aerodromes are responsible for:

a) adhere to regulations on segregation, collection, storage, transport, and treatment of solid waste in accordance with regulations on solid waste management under the Law on Environmental Protection of 2020;

b) assigning collection locations that meet environmental protection requirements; adopting control solutions in storage, collection, transport, and treatment stages in order to satisfy environmental requirements;

c) disinfecting solid waste from aircrafts as per the law prior to treatment upon receiving warning sent by international medical inspection authority at airports pertaining to dangerous infectious diseases.

2. Airport operators and aviation-related service providers are responsible for installing equipment for containing and segregating municipal solid waste at passenger terminals; installing instructions on segregating waste in order to segregate at source.

3. Airport operators, aircraft operators, and aviation-related service providers are responsible for limiting the use of disposable plastic products in production and service provision; collecting, segregating, recycling, and reusing disposable plastic waste; adopting solutions for minimizing, reusing, recycling, and treating plastic waste. Plastic wastes produced during operation must be collected, segregated, and transferred to recycling and treatment facilities.

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As regulations above, airport operators are responsible for collecting, segregating, recycling, and reusing disposable plastic waste in order to control solid waste control at airports and aerodromes in Vietnam.

What are responsibilities of airport operators regarding control of regular industrial solid waste and toxic waste at airports and aerodromes in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 13 of the Circular 52/2022/TT-BGTVT (takes effect from 01/03/2023) stipulating control of regular industrial solid waste and toxic waste at airports and aerodromes in Vietnam as follows:

1. Airport operators and aviation-related service providers where regular industrial solid wastes are produced are responsible for:

a) segregating regular industrial solid wastes at source in accordance with Clause 2 Article 81 of the Law on Environmental Protection;

b) treating or assigning treatment facilities to treat in accordance with Article 82 of the Law on Environmental Protection;

c) managing regular industrial wastes mixed with toxic wastes which cannot be segregated or have not been segregated in accordance with regulations on toxic wastes under the Law on Environmental Protection.

2. Toxic wastes must not be treated within airports and aerodromes. If toxic wastes are produced, declaration, segregation, collection, storage, transport, and treatment must be conducted in accordance with regulations on environmental protection.

As regulations above, airport operators where regular industrial solid wastes are produced are responsible for:

a) segregating regular industrial solid wastes at source;

b) treating or assigning treatment facilities to treat;

c) managing regular industrial wastes mixed with toxic wastes which cannot be segregated or have not been segregated in accordance with regulations on toxic wastes under the Law on Environmental Protection.

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