Determination of amount of environmental protection fees on wastewater in Vietnam in 2020

Determination of amount of fees payable on domestic wastewater and industrial wastewater from July 01, 2020 in Vietnam are carried out in accordance with Article 7 of Decree No. 53/2020/NĐ-CP, specifically as follows:

Firstly, regarding domestic wastewater

The environmental protection fee on domestic wastewater shall be determined as follows:

Where:

- The volume of clean water used shall be measured using the fee payer's water meter. If the fee payer self-extracts water, the volume of clean water used shall be determined according to the scope of operation, business, services or surface water/underground water extraction license declared by the organization, household business or individual business and the determination shall be appraised by the communal People’s Committee.

- Clean water selling price is the VAT-excluded water selling price set by the clean water supplier within the ward or commune.

- The fee rate is specified in Clause 1 Article 6 hereof.

Secondly, regarding industrial wastewater

- If the total average volume of wastewater discharged by a facility in a chargeable year is less than 20 m3/day, the amount of fee payable is specified in Point a Clause 2 Article 6 hereof.

- If the total average volume of wastewater discharged by a facility in a chargeable year is more than 20 m3/day, the amount of fee payable shall be calculated according to the following formula: Fq = (f/4) + Cq.

Where:

+ Fq is the amount of fee payable quarterly (VND).

+ f is the fix fee specified in Point a Clause 2 Article 6 hereof.

+ Cq is the variable fee (total amount of fee payable charged upon contaminants in wastewater) payable quarterly.

- The variable fee shall be determined by each contaminant as follows:

+ Regarding a facility that is required to carry out periodic monitoring of wastewater as prescribed by law: the base for determining content of contaminants in wastewater to serve the declaration and calculation of fees is the result of monitoring that is carried out every 03 months. If a facility is required to carry out wastewater monitoring every 06 months, the declaration and calculation of fees for the quarter in which the monitoring is not conducted shall be carried out using the result of monitoring that was conducted in the previous quarter.

The total volume of wastewater shall be determined according to one of the 03 sources of data: (i) Actual result given by a flow meter; (ii) 80% of the volume of water used; (iii) Information contained in the periodic environmental monitoring report. If (i) and (ii) or (i) and (iii) or (i), (ii) and (iii) are available, (i) will be used. If (ii) and (iii) are available, (i) will be used.

+ Regarding a facility that is required to carry out automatic and continuous monitoring of wastewater as prescribed by law: The declaration, calculation and appraisal of amounts of fees payable shall be determined every 24 hours. Content of contaminants upon which fees are charged and total volume of wastewater discharged by the facility shall be determined using the daily (24-hour) average value of measurement results. If the contaminants upon which fees are charged are not those required to undergo automatic and continuous monitoring, their content shall be determined using periodic monitoring data.

- If a facility has multiple wastewater discharge points, the variable fee applied to the facility is the total amount of variable fees determined at each wastewater discharge point.

View details at Decree No. 53/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from July 01, 2020.

Thu Ba

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