On 13/05/2019, the Government issued Decree No. 40/2019/ND-CP amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Decrees detailing and guiding the implementation of the Law on effective environmental protection. force from 01/07/2019.
Accordingly, to guide more clearly the contents related to imported scrap Government issued Decree 40/2019/ND-CP amending the Decree guiding the Law on Environmental Protection on 13/5/2019, accordingly, this Decree provided for objects permitted to import scraps, specifically as follows:
Clause 28 Article 3, Decree 40/2019/ND-CP stipulates that “Organizations and individuals having production facilities using imported scrap meet the following requirements to be permitted to import scrap as raw materials export”:
a) Meeting the requirements and responsibilities for environmental protection stipulated in Clause 2 and Clause 3, Article 76 of the Law on Environmental Protection;
b) There is an environmental impact assessment report approved by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, in which the contents of imported waste materials are used as production materials and granted a certificate of completion of environmental protection works. school or hazardous waste disposal license, including content using scrap as a production material for projects already in operation.
For newly constructed projects, they must meet the requirements prescribed in Article 16b and Article 17 of Decree No. 18/2015 / ND-CP.
c) Having a certificate of satisfaction of environmental protection conditions in importing discarded materials as production materials according to law provisions”.
The Decree No. 40/2019 has issued new and positive changes in environmental-related activities. In which new regulations on imported scrap are the most important content. This is a very important legal document, abolishing, amending, replacing and supplementing many contents of other Decrees on environmental protection in order to better manage environmental protection. Through the promulgation of legal documents to regulate this issue, the state has shown positive signs, contributing to minimizing environmental pollutants.