Vietnam: Which organization collects environmental protection fees for wastewater?

Specifically, according to Decree No. 53/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, collectors shall collect environmental protection fees on wastewater as follows:

- Provincial Departments of Natural Resources and Environment shall collect environmental protection fees on industrial wastewater generated by facilities under their management. Every provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment, in a practical manner, shall notify the People’s Committee of province or central-affiliated city, which will direct the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment and district-level Department of Natural Resources and Environment to collect environmental protection fees on wastewater of facilities within their areas.

- Clean water suppliers shall collect environmental protection fees on domestic wastewater, which are charged to organizations, households and individuals that use clean water they supply.

- People’s Committees of wards and towns shall collect environmental protection fees on domestic wastewater, which are charged to organizations, household businesses and individual businesses within wards and towns.

Notably, Decree No. 53/2020/NĐ-CP stipulates 07 cases of exemption of environmental protection fees on wastewater, specifically as follows:

- Water that is discharged from hydropower plants.

- Seawater that is discharged after being used for salt production.

- Domestic wastewater that is generated by:

+ Organizations, households and individuals in communes;

+ Organizations, households and individuals in wards and towns where a clean water supply system is not available;

+ Non-business households and individuals in wards and towns where a clean water supply system is available that extract water themselves.

- Cooling water (prescribed by the environmental protection law) that is not in direct contact with any contaminant and is discharged through a separate conduit.

- Wastewater from rainwater runoff.

- Wastewater from fishing vessels.

- Wastewater from centralized wastewater treatment systems in urban areas (specified in the Government’s Decree No. 80/2014/ND-CP dated August 06, 2014) that has been treated in accordance with standards and technical regulations on environment prior to its discharge into water bodies.

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

Thu Ba

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