Rules for formulating and applying environmental technical regulation ambient environment quality in Vietnam

According to the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 of Vietnam, the formulation of environmental technical regulations on ambient environment quality must adhere to the following rules:

- Achieve the objectives for protecting and improving the living environment to ensure human health, development of creatures and sustainable of ecosystems; serve planning activities, environmental zoning and environmental quality assessment;

- Ensure that they are equivalent to those of developing countries and conform to national and regional natural and socio-economic conditions.

Concurrently, the application of environmental technical regulations on ambient environment quality must adhere to the following rules:

- Serve as the basis for classifying and assessing environmental quality in one location or one area;

- Serve as the basis for carrying out environmental zoning for intended purposes of management and use;

- Serve as the basis for formulating environmental quality management plans, considering issuing environmental licenses to entities that discharge waste into the environment and ensuring the discharge serves the purpose of environmental quality management in planned, zoned or classified areas.

Environmental technical regulation on limits of persistent pollutants present in raw materials, fuels, materials, products, goods and equipment must aim to protect human health and prevent environmental protection under the international treaties to which Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a signatory.

View more details at the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 of Vietnam, effective from January 01, 2022.

Ty Na

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