On May 7, 2018, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Environmental Monitoring and Improving the Quality of Environmental Monitoring Data last September, requiring all regions and departments to formulate detailed implementation plans based on actual conditions to promote implementation. Today, Beijing's Implementation Plan for Deepening Environmental Monitoring Reform and Improving Environmental Monitoring Data Quality was officially released. It is clearly planned to carry out interference and record, and the district and municipal environmental protection departments with outstanding fraud problems can disclose and interview their government officials; All enterprises, organizations and individuals should be severely punished for cheating on environmental monitoring data. The ultra-low emission dust meter should be included in the information disclosure publicity system to complete an illegal and limited action.

Cheating outstanding people will be interviewed

The implementation plan specifies that the leadership responsibilities should be strengthened. The district and municipal environmental protection departments with outstanding fraud problems can disclose and interview their government officials, and instruct the district government to investigate and rectify. The district and municipal environmental protection departments interviewed by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, according to the clues of the problems transferred by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and in accordance with the relevant provisions, together with the relevant units, put forward punishment suggestions to the relevant responsible persons, and handed them over to the district party committee and the government for handling according to discipline and law, and presented the handling results in writing to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the municipal party committee and the municipal government.

In accordance with the relevant requirements of the Central Committee, it is important to guard against the influence of the use of positions by Party and government leading cadres and relevant staff members, assign ultra-low CEMS systems to tamper with and fake environmental monitoring data, restrict and deter environmental monitoring data quality supervision laws, affect and disturb the investigation and responsibility tracking of the fraud of environmental monitoring data, and assign environmental monitoring organizations and personnel the goal and mission of environmental quality improvement audit. The interference of Party and government leading cadres and relevant staff in environmental monitoring will be included in the municipal environmental protection supervision, and once verified, they will be strictly held accountable in accordance with relevant provisions.

The environmental monitoring organization and personnel shall perform the recording duties and responsibilities according to the relevant provisions of the national environmental monitoring intervention marking and recording, and shall provide instructions, letters, oral opinions or hints for the party and government leaders and relevant staff to intervene in environmental monitoring, so as to achieve the whole process marking, legal extraction, media storage, archiving and inspection. Those who do not truthfully record or conceal improper interference and cause serious consequences shall be criticized and warned.

Who signs the monitoring data

It is proposed in the plan that the data quality responsibilities of environmental monitoring organizations should be precisely defined, and the responsibility system of "the person who makes the number shall assume the responsibility and the person who signs the responsibility" should be established. The environmental monitoring organization and its personnel shall be responsible for the authenticity and accuracy of its monitoring data. Environmental monitoring organizations shall carry out monitoring activities in accordance with the national and municipal environmental monitoring norms. The sampling and analysis personnel, reviewers and authorized signatories are responsible for the authenticity of the original monitoring data and monitoring statements for life.

In case of illegal operation or direct tampering or falsification of monitoring data, the responsibilities of relevant personnel shall be investigated in accordance with the law and discipline. Implement the environmental monitoring quality management system. The environmental monitoring organization shall obtain the qualification certificate of the inspection and testing organization according to law, and establish a quality management system covering the whole process of point distribution, sampling, on-site testing, sample preparation, analysis and testing, data transmission, evaluation, inductive analysis, statement preparation, etc. Establish the internal quality control regulations of the environmental monitoring organization, carry out the daily protection of monitoring equipment according to the regulations, and regularly carry out the verification and calibration of monitoring instruments and the quantity traceability. The instruments and equipment specially used for online active monitoring and monitoring shall meet the requirements of relevant environmental protection specifications, and the reference materials used shall be certified reference materials or traceable reference materials.

Illegal acts are included in credit supervision

The plan specifies that the monitoring quality supervision and inspection of environmental monitoring organizations should be strengthened, and the fraud of monitoring organizations and personnel should be severely investigated and dealt with. If environmental monitoring organizations and personnel cheat or participate in cheating, the environmental protection, quality and technical supervision departments, supervision organs and public security organs shall deal with or punish them according to laws and regulations; If it is suspected of committing a crime, it shall be transferred to the judicial organ to investigate the criminal responsibilities of the relevant responsible person according to law.

Together, if the personnel engaged in the protection and operation of environmental monitoring equipment implement or participate in tampering, falsifying active monitoring data, disturbing active monitoring equipment, and damaging the environmental quality monitoring system, the VOCs online monitoring system will be severely punished according to law. If environmental monitoring organizations cheat and cheat in the provision of environmental services and are responsible for the environmental pollution and ecological damage, in addition to the punishment according to law, procuratorial organs, social organizations and other organs prescribed by law file civil public interest lawsuits, or administrative organs authorized by the municipal government file ecological environmental damage compensation lawsuits according to law, Environmental monitoring organizations may be required to undertake joint and several responsibilities with other responsible persons for environmental pollution and ecological damage.

In addition, the plan also proposes to promote joint punishment. The environmental protection departments at the municipal and district levels shall disclose the environmental monitoring data that has been punished according to law to deceive enterprises, organizations and personal information to the public, and incorporate them into the municipal public reputation information service platform according to law. The illegal information of enterprises shall be incorporated into the enterprise reputation information publicity system according to law, so as to complete a law breaking and restriction.

Origin: Zhang Hang, reporter of Beijing Evening News