Chapter III
IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS
Article 18. Transitional provisions
1. Contagious disease hospitals and clinics, cemeteries, waste dumping sites, toxic chemical plants, and production and processing establishments discharging hazardous wastewater, which are operating in water source protection corridors, may not expand their scale and shall adopt measures to control and closely supervise the quality of wastewater and wastes before discharging them into soil and water sources.
The operating establishments which pollute water sources shall work out solutions to the situation within time limits prescribed by provincial-level People’s Committees (except establishments operating in intra-provincial water source protection corridors) or by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (if establishments operate in inter-provincial or trans-national water source protection corridors). If the establishments are unable to remedy the pollution, the provincial-level People’s Committees and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment shall propose the Prime Minister to decide on suspension of their operation or on their relocation.
2. For hydroelectric and irrigation reservoirs for which the schemes on planting of protection corridor markers have been submitted before this Decree takes effect, Decree No. 112/2008/ND-CP of October 20, 2008, on integrated management, protection and exploitation of resources and environment of hydroelectric and irrigation reservoirs still applies.
Article 19. Effect
1. This Decree takes effect on July 1, 2015.
2. To annul the provisions of Clause 1 of Article 3; Article 6; Clauses 3, 4 and 5 of Article of Decree No. 112/2008/ND-CP of October 20, 2008, on integrated management, protection and exploitation of resources and environment of hydroelectric and irrigation reservoirs.
Article 20. Implementation responsibility
1. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related ministries and sectors in, guiding the implementation of this Decree.
2. Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies, chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees and related organizations and individuals shall implement this Decree.-