China Issues National Environment and Health Action Plan
Year:2007 ISSUE:35
COLUMN:NEW PRODUCT AND TECHNOLOGY
Click:325    DateTime:Dec.18,2007
China Issues National Environment and Health Action Plan        

The "National Environment and Health Action Plan (2007-2015)" jointly formulated by several ministries and commissions including the Ministry of Health and the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) has recently been issued.
   It is proposed in the document that during 2007-2015 China will develop an all-round coordination mechanism for the environment and health, formulate systems for the promotion of the coordinated development of environment and health work and systems for the evaluation of health hazards caused by environmental pollution and complete the comprehensive evaluation of existing laws, regulations and standards for environment and health. During 2010-2015 efforts will be made to perfect the standards for environment and health, conduct the share of monitoring information, improve the evaluation, projection and pre-warning of environment and health hazards and achieve the multi-departmental coordination in dealing with environmental pollution emergencies.    
   In the improvement of laws and regulations on environment and health, research on the legal systems for compensation of environmental pollution injuries will be made, legal responsibilities for environmental pollution will be strengthened, specific methods for the assessment of the environmental pollution extent and the indemnification procedure and scope and methods for the legal aids to victims will be formulated.