What responsibilities does the Commune People's Committee have in State Management of Environmental Protection?

Pursuant to Clause 3, Article 168 of the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 (effective from January 01, 2022) stipulating the responsibilities of state management for environmental protection of the People's Committees at various levels, in which:

The People's Committee at the commune level, within the scope of its duties and authority, has the following responsibilities:

- To develop, promulgate according to its authority and organize the implementation of legal documents, regulations, conventions on sanitation and environmental protection; to develop and organize the implementation of projects and tasks concerning environmental protection;

- To direct, guide, inspect, and organize the control of pollution sources; to receive environmental registrations; to prevent and respond to environmental incidents in the area in accordance with the law; to organize the management of waste sources in the area according to assignments and decentralization; to be responsible to the People's Committee at the district level for environmental pollution occurring in the area;

- To organize the monitoring, supervision, warning, environmental quality management, and waste management in the area according to its authority or as decentralized by the People's Committee at the district level; to rehabilitate and restore the environment; to conserve nature and biodiversity;

- To propagate and enhance awareness, build a sense of environmental protection in the community; to encourage people to participate in sanitation and environmental protection; to guide local community residents to include the content of environmental protection into village conventions, regulations, building new rural areas, and cultural families;

- To inspect and handle violations of environmental protection laws within its authority or transfer to the competent authority for handling as prescribed by law; to resolve complaints, denunciations, and recommendations on environmental protection within its authority;

- To mobilize and use resources for environmental protection according to the provisions of law;

- To organize the collection of environmental information, and report on the environment according to the provisions of law;

- To perform other environmental protection tasks assigned by the People's Committee at the district level.

Sincerely!