This Act is formulated to raise the quality of the environment, advance the health and well-being of citizens, preserve environmental resources, and pursue sustainable development by promoting environmental protection. The Act consists of 41 Articles divided into 5 Chapters: General Provisions (I); Planning and Protection (II); Control and Relief (III); Guidance, Monitoring, Incentives and Penalties (IV); Supplementary Provisions (V). The Act provides for the overall environmental policy directions, principles and environmental basic system. The Executive Yuan shall establish a sustainable development commission to be responsible for relevant strategies and policies on sustainable development matters. The central government shall establish a system in which those who pollute or destroy the environment pay, and shall establish an environmental impact assessment system to prevent and reduce the negative impact of government policies or development activities on the environment. Government entities shall carry out reasonable plans for land development and use and promote such plans. Measures shall be taken by government entities at all levels in the following fields: to protect nonrenewable resources, and shall regularly conduct surveys and assessments on rare resources that have surpassed limits or are nearing limits and undertake improvement or restrictive measures; to protect the marine environment, enhance coastal area management, and control groundwater overuse, ground subsidence, and coastal erosion; to control carbon dioxide emissions and establish related plans to mitigate the greenhouse effect; to conduct research and establish environmental and health risk assessment systems, adopt preventive and medical healthcare measures, reduce health risks, and prevent or lessen diseases related to the environment; to strengthen nuclear safety management and control, protections against radiation; etc.
مقاطعة تايوان الصينية · 2002-12-11