The Research On Discharge Standard Of Pollutants In China

The system of pollutant discharge standard is a kind of legal system of environmental protection which the center is discharge standard. Its formulation and execution is important content related to other system. The basic principle of pollutant discharge standard,which is the core, plays an important role in the understanding of the system.It is to achieve environmental quality standards, combined with the economic and technical conditions and environmental characteristics to restrict the pollutant and other kinds of harm into the environment.The discharge standard has special subject to formulated,purpose,content and implementation which indicated the environmental management and objective effect.The discharge standards for pollutants were justly sparsely stipulated in other industrial and hygienic standards in the initial post-liberation period, without independent status. The main purpose is not for environmental protection. In 1973, the issuance of “Three-Waste”Standards marked the initial shaping of its system. Through rapid development after reform and opening-up, a comparatively system is formed now.Apart from basic principles related to the discharge standards for pollutants, the formulation and modification of such standards, system, contents and implementation are also important parts of the system.The formulation and modification of the discharge standards for pollutants, which aim at realizing the environmental quality standards, is an important way for the environmental protection department to realize its power. Compared with other types of environmental standards, the process of formulating and modifying the discharge standards for pollutants is more closely connected with the society and economy.Meanwhile, after development for years, our country generally formed the discharge standards for pollutants dominated by the discharge standards for industrial pollutants and supported by discharge standards for comprehensive pollutants. All regions have the right to formulate the discharge standard system for pollutants for their local discharge standards according to their own practical situations;Besides, the discharge standards for pollutants in our country play the special role in civil affairs, administration, criminal affairs and other fields and very widely used.However, since our country’s environmental protection cause was started rather late and our national conditions are sophisticated, there are still a lot of defects in our relevant environmental protection systems, compared with those in the western developed countries.The discharge standard system for pollutants is not exceptional either. So we must carry out certain investigations for such defects and put forward improvement plans accordingly.