Multinational Corporations Should Promote the Ability and Level of the Conservative Law

Speaking to the media on the 9th, the spokesman of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) spokesperson Tao Detian told the media about the 130 post-environmental inspections of multinational corporations that had environmental violations. They did not find environmental violations that occurred during the investigation, but three companies had other environmental violations.
According to reports, the 130 multinational corporations that were inspected by this time have all been investigated and put into place, and no environmental violations have been found during the investigation. However, there are three companies that have other environmental violations. They are: Onofa Decoration Materials (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., the company's heavy oil furnace dust, sulfur dioxide exceeded the standard, untreated waste water discharged directly, the Shanghai Minhang District Environmental Protection Bureau is in the investigation and investigation ; Shanghai Zhongyuan Kawasaki Heavy Industry Steel Structure Co., Ltd., the company exceeded the noise level, Shanghai Baoshan District Government on August 27 last year has made a deadline for governance decisions; Jinmai Food (Chengdu) Co., Ltd., the company "three simultaneous" The facilities were not fully in place, the sewage exceeded the standards, the environmental protection facilities were not accepted, and no application for postponed trial production was submitted. The main project was put into production. Sichuan Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau had ordered it to stop production and impose fines.
Since November 2007, the State Environmental Protection Administration has conducted special post-inspection inspections on multinational companies that have committed environmental violations between 2004 and 2007. The post-environment inspectors involved 19 provinces and autonomous regions including Hebei, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Shandong, Fujian, Anhui, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and Guizhou. The 130 multinational corporations in the municipality directly under the Central Government include food, fermentation, chemical, machinery manufacturing, electronics, and papermaking industries. Most of these transnational corporations are from developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan. They have both world-renowned brands and “world top 500 companies.” They have a good reputation for environmental protection. In recent years, a series of environmental violations have taken place in China.
Tao Detian said that environmental responsibility not only requires the efforts of local Chinese companies, but also requires the participation of multinational corporations. Multinational corporations should strive to improve the ability and level of the autonomous ring conservative law, establish and improve the internal environmental management system and mechanism, and actively assume corporate social environmental responsibility. He said that in the future, the State Environmental Protection Administration will continue to increase government environmental law enforcement and promote law-abiding businesses to comply with the law; at the same time, it will actively guide enterprises to establish and improve the internal environmental management system through the establishment of environmentally friendly companies and the implementation of the enterprise environmental supervisor system. And mechanisms to improve the environmental self-discipline ability and level.

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