The 2024 Training Workshop on Combating Environmental Crimes Involving Hazardous Waste and Falsification of Pollution Source Monitoring Data was launched in Haikou, the capital of South China's Hainan province, on April 16.
The workshop was jointly organized by the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP), the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), and the Ministry of Public Security (MPS). Nearly 200 key professionals from procuratorial organs, ecological and environmental departments, and public security organs participated in the training program.
The training session is tailored to the practical needs of local authorities in enforcing laws and handling cases, and focused on addressing the common challenges in handling the cases in relation to environmental crimes involving hazardous waste and falsification of monitoring data about pollution sources, and providing feasible solutions.
Problems in investigating and transferring evidence in the cases of environmental crimes involving hazardous waste, and in handling environmental violations due to illegal disposal of wasted engine oil, will also be targeted.
Experts working in the frontline of law enforcement and judiciary trials were invited to give lectures, and group discussions among the trainees were organized during the training.
In recent years, the SPP, working together with the MEE and the MPS, has carried out special campaigns to crack down on environmental crimes involving hazardous waste and the falsification of monitoring data by relevant pollutant discharging units, and to rectify acts of falsification by third-party environmental service organizations.
In cracking down on crimes of environmental pollution, the coordination among the three institutes has become more seamless, gradually forming an integrated and collaborative law enforcement and judicial model known as the "Six Joint Campaigns" (namely, joint deployment on the launch of special campaigns, joint consultation on work situations, progress and effectiveness, joint supervision over the progress of the case handling, joint commendation of outstanding units, joint release of typical cases, and joint organization of training sessions).
Eleven types of acts, including illegal emissions, dumping, utilization and disposal of waste machine oil and waste-containing mineral oil, waste packaging containers, waste acid, and surface-treatment waste, as well as the falsification of automatic monitoring data or interference with auto-monitoring facilities, will be the focus of this year's crackdown.
