Chương I Nghị định 19/2015/NĐ-CP: Quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope of adjustment

This Decree stipulates in detail: Point dd, Clause 1, Article 38; Clause 5, Article 61; Clause 3, Article 68; Clause 7, Article 70; Clause 3, Article 75; Clause 5, Article 104; Clause 3, Article 146; Clause 2, Article 151; Clause 3, Article 167 of the Law on environmental  protection, including:

1. Environmental renovation, restoration and deposit making for environmental renovation, restoration of mineral extraction activities.

2. Control of land environment pollution.

3. Protection of handicraft village environment.

4. Environmental protection for importing activities and used ship breaking.

5. Certifyation of environmental management system; liability insurance for damages to the environment and handling of facilities which cause serious environmental pollution.

6. Incentives and support for environmental protection activities

7. Participation of residential community in environmental protection.

Article 2. Subjects of application

This Decree applies to organizations, agencies, households and individuals operating in the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, including the mainland, islands, waters and airspace.

Article 3. Interpretation of terms

In this Decree, the following terms are construed as follows:

1. Environmental renovation and restoration are activities to bring the environment and ecosystem in the effected environmental area closer to the original state of the environment or achievement of standards and regulations on safety, environment in service of purposes useful to human being.

2. Deposit making for environmental renovation and restoration is that the organizations or individuals deposit an amount of money in the Vietnam Environment Protection Fund or the local environmental protection fund (referred to as environmental protection fund) to ensure the responsibility for the environmental renovation and restoration of organizations and individuals for mineral extraction activities.

3. Plan for environmental renovation and restoration is the solutions to environmental renovation and restoration in mineral extraction activities approved by the competent state authorities.

4. Waste treatment is the process of using technological and technical solutions (different from pre-processing) in order to reduce, eliminate, isolate, burn, destroy or bury waste and hazardous elements in such waste.

5. Waste treatment facilities includes the hazardous waste treatment facility, the domestic solid waste treatment facility and normal waste treatment facility

6. Technical infrastructure for protection of handicraft village receiving the encouraged development includes the centralized water drainage, collection and treatment of wastewater system, point system and means of collection, gathering and transport of normal solid waste and hazardous waste and trees in public areas.

7. Environmentally friendly technologies are the ones causing less harm to the environment compared with similar ones during operation.

8. Environmentally friendly facilities are the one meeting criteria of effectively using energy, water saving, reduction, re-use and re-cycling of waste.

9. Environmentally friendly products are the ones meeting criteria of eco-label criteria and eco-label certification.

10. Residential community is the community of people living in the same hamlet, village, mountain village, highland village, residential group and residential point.