Measures for the Administration of Environmental Statistics

Measures for the Administration of Environmental Statistics Order of the State Environmental Protection Administration (No. 37) The Measures for the Administration of Environmental Statistics, which have been adopted at the sixth executive meeting of 2006 of the State Environmental Protection Administration on October 18, 2006, are hereby promulgated and shall come into force as of December 1, 2006. The Interim Measures for the Administration of Environmental Statistics promulgated by the State Environmental Protection Administration on June 15, 1995 shall be simultaneously repealed. Director of the State Environmental Protection Administration Zhou Shengxian November 4, 2006 Measures for the Administration of Environmental Statistics Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 For the purpose of strengthening the environment statistical administration, and guaranteeing the accuracy and timeliness of environment statistical materials, these Measures are formulated in accordance with the Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the Statistics Law ) and the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Statistics Law. Article 2 The tasks of environmental statistics are to make statistical surveys and analyses of the information about the environmental situation and the environmental protection work, provide statistical information and consultation, and exert statistical supervision. The contents of environmental statistics shall include the environmental quality, environmental pollution, treatment and control of environmental pollution, ecological protection, nuclear and radiation safety, environmental administration and other matters relating to environmental protection. The types of environmental statistics can be divided into: general survey and special survey, regular survey and irregular survey. Regular surveys include statistical annals, statistical semi-annals, quarterly reports and monthly reports, etc. Article 3 The administrative structure under unified leadership with each level assuming responsibility for its own work shall be implemented for environment statistical work. The environmental protection administrative department of the State Council shall, under the operational guidance of the statistics administrative department of the State Council, conduct uniform administration of the national environment statistical work, formulate the rules, standards and work plans for environmental statistics, organize to carry out the scientific research on environmental statistics, arrange and guide the national environment statistical work, collect, administrate and promulgate national environment statistical materials. The local environmental protection administrative department at or above the county level shall, under the guidance of the environmental protection administrative department at the higher level and the statistics administrative department at the same level, take charge of the environment statistical work within its own jurisdiction. Article 4 The environmental protection administrative department at each level shall strengthen the construction of its environment statistical capacity, incorporate the construction of environment statistical information into its development plans, establish and improve the environment statistical information system, use modern information technology to furnish its own department and its subordinate statistical institutions in a planned manner, enhance the ability to handle the environment statistical information, and satisfy the requirements of its own jurisdiction to the environment statistical information. Article 5 The environmental protection administrative department at each level shall, according to national environment statistical tasks as well as the environment administrative requirements of its own region and department, strengthen the leadership and supervision over the environment statistical work from the following aspects: (1) Incorporating the environment statistical cause into the work plans for environmental protection, and organizing the implementation thereof; (2) Establishing and improving environment statistical institutions; (3) Arranging and safeguarding the expenditures for environment statistical work; (4) Timely finishing the statistical tasks assigned by the environmental protection administrative department at the higher level according to the laws or regulations, taking measures to safeguard the accuracy and timeliness of statistical data, and not deleting statistical data at will; (5) Carrying out the scientific research in the aspect of environmental statistics, and improving environment statistical rules and methods; and (6) Establishing a system of rewards and punishments for the environment statistical work. Article 6 The organs, organizations, enterprises, public institutions and individual industrial and commercial households subject to the environmental statistics shall, according to the relevant laws, regulations and these Measures, faithfully provide environment statistical materials, and shall not make any false report, conceal, refuse to report, delay the report of, forge or alter any statistical materials. Chapter II Environment Statistical Organs and Personnel Article 7 The environmental protection administrative department of the State Council shall set up a special statistical organ to uniformly take charge of the environment statistical work. The relevant bodies (offices and bureaus) under the environmental protection administrative department of the State Council shall be responsible for the professional statistical work within their respective functions. The environmental protection administrative department at or above the county level shall determine the organs to assume environment statistical functions, set up posts, and designate personnel to uniformly take charge of the environment statistical work. Article 8 The statistical organ in the environmental protection administrative department at each level (hereinafter referred to as the environment statistical organ) shall assume the following responsibilities: (1) Formulating the rules and plans for environment statistical work, and organizing the implementation thereof; (2) Establishing and improving the system of environment statistical indices, and uniformly administering environment statistical survey projects; (3) Carrying out environment statistical analysis and forecast; (4) Carrying out environment statistical quality control and supervision, and taking measures to safeguard the accuracy and timeliness of statistical materials; (5) Collecting, gathering and verifying environment statistical materials, establishing an environmental statistical database and administering it, and providing environment statistical information as published to the outside; (6) Submitting environment statistical materials to the statistics administrative department at the same level and the environmental protection administrative department at the higher level according to the provisions; (7) Guiding the environmental protection a......