On May 13, 2019, the Government issued Decree No. 40/2019 / ND-CP stipulating amendments and supplements to a number of articles of decrees detailing and guiding the implementation of environmental protection laws. effective July 1, 2019.
Accordingly, Decree No. 40/2019 / ND-CP has the outstanding contents of regulations on the implementation of periodic environmental monitoring of production, business, service and industrial zones as follows:
Subjects to periodic wastewater monitoring include:
• Establishments, industrial parks and projects that have been put into operation with scale and capacity equivalent to those required to make environmental impact assessment reports and have a total volume of wastewater discharged into the environment;
• Establishments and projects have been put into operation, with capacity scale equivalent to those who have to register for environmental protection plans and have a total volume of wastewater discharged into the environment;
• The above mentioned facilities connect wastewater into the centralized wastewater treatment system of the industrial zone to perform periodic wastewater monitoring in accordance with the regulations of the investor of construction and business of industrial park infrastructure. .
Subjects to periodically monitor emissions include:
• Establishments, industrial parks and projects that have been put into operation with scale and capacity equivalent to those required to make environmental impact assessment reports and have a total volume of wastewater discharged into the environment;
• Establishments and projects have been put into operation, with the same capacity scale as those who have to register for environmental protection plans and have a total volume of wastewater discharged into the environment.
Subjects must identify sludge and solid waste containing hazardous components of type 1 to manage according to hazardous waste management regulations.
Thus, Decree No. 40/2019 / ND-CP has detailed regulations on subjects that must perform periodic environmental monitoring to ensure compliance with the laws of production, business and service establishments. and an industrial park aimed at sustainable economic development.