Department of Environmental Protection: Environmental pollution insurance after four years and strive to promote

Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Yang Chaofei policies and regulations in a few days ago, "the national environmental pollution liability insurance pilot work conference," said Department of Environmental Protection decided to Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Ningbo, Shenyang and carry out environmental liability insurance pilot , In 2012 after fighting throughout the country to promote environmental pollution liability insurance.

Yang Chaofei said that the environmental pollution liability insurance pilot prone to pollution incidents enterprise, storage of dangerous chemicals transport business, hazardous waste disposal business, landfill and sewage treatment plants, focusing on various types of industrial parks, and explore the environment Pollution liability insurance for the basic ways to build on the basis of the database, and gradually explore environmental risk assessment system, corporate environmental risk management system, environmental pollution, damage assessment and compensation system, insurance system and monitoring system of liability risk-sharing system.

Yang Chaofei recommendations issued preferential policies to encourage insurance companies. For example, companies will cover the cost of funds in the pre-tax, or business to pay the sewage charges by a certain percentage of subsidies to enterprises as the cost of insurance; the establishment of environmental pollution damages special fund to address more than the limit of insurance over the issue of compensation; in the future The introduction of environmental taxes to raise revenue, funding arrangements must be used to encourage enterprises to purchase environmental liability insurance.