Rules tightened to better guard ozone layer

Premier signs amendment improving regulation on enterprises' discharges

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has signed an amendment to a regulation overseeing ozone-depleting substances, as the country strives to implement the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, according to a media release from the State Council, the nation's Cabinet.

The amendment rules that enterprises that generate ODS incidentally in their production process should not discharge the substances directly. Instead, they should dispose of them in an environmentally friendly manner.

It also stipulates that companies that produce and consume such substances in large quantity and those that generate a large amount of ODS incidentally should install automated monitoring devices, which will be connected to the monitoring systems of environmental authorities.