The Government of Vietnam encourages environmental auditing at facilities

The Government of Vietnam encourages environmental auditing at facilities (Illustration image)

Article 78 of the Draft Law on Environmental Protection (amended) has supplemented regulations on the content and encouragement of environmental auditing in Vietnam as follows:

- Contents of environmental auditing:

+ Auditing the compliance with policies, legal regulations, and environmental protection goals of organizations and facilities, including: evaluating the compliance with environmental protection policies, legal regulations, and standards of organizations and production, business, and service facilities; evaluating the implementation of environmental protection goals of organizations and facilities.

+ Auditing to evaluate the effectiveness of waste and energy management activities of organizations and production, business, and service facilities, including: collecting information and data on raw materials, materials, water, and energy used in each stage; evaluating and identifying the type, source, composition, and volume of waste generated in each stage; calculating material balance, causes of waste generation; proposing solutions to minimize waste generation.

- The Government of Vietnam issues a mechanism to encourage facilities to conduct their own environmental auditing or hire independent audit units to conduct it.

Thus, this Draft has supplemented some content on environmental auditing at facilities and encourages independent auditing.

More regulations maybe founds in Draft Law on Environmental Protection (amended 2020)

Ngoc Tai

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