National plan for waste incident response for the period 2023

The national plan for waste incident response for the period 2023 - 2030 aims to ensure centralized and unified direction in state management of waste incident response and remediation; mobilize and effectively use resources, respond and overcome consequences in a timely manner; closely coordinate with functional agencies from central to local levels in mobilizing and using resources to respond and overcome consequences when waste incidents occur. Apply and effectively implement the "4 on-site" motto, proactively respond and overcome consequences quickly; build an organizational system with sufficient capacity to respond and overcome consequences, minimizing damage to people, the economy , society and the environment. Strengthen international exchange and cooperation on early warning and prevention of cross-border waste incidents.

To achieve that goal, the Plan has forecasted basic situations of incidents such as: incidents of normal solid waste (domestic waste, industrial waste...), incidents of hazardous solid waste (solid hazardous medical waste, solid hazardous waste), incidents of liquid waste (sludge, wastewater), incidents of gaseous waste (emissions). Thereby, measures to prevent, respond to and overcome the consequences of incidents are proposed, and tasks are assigned to ministries, branches and localities.

Some new points in the National Plan for responding to waste incidents for the period 2023 - 2030 that localities and businesses need to note:

1. On response hierarchy

a) Responding to national waste incidents: The National Committee for Incident, Disaster Response and Search and Rescue advises the Prime Minister and directly directs and manages response and overcoming consequences.

b) Responding to provincial-level waste incidents: The Provincial People's Committee directly commands and directs the Response and Remediation Forces.

c) Responding to waste incidents at district and grassroots levels: The People's Committee at district level and facility owners directly command and direct response forces to overcome consequences.

2. Regarding the issuance of the Waste Incident Response Plan:

a) The National Committee for Incident, Disaster Response and Search and Rescue develops a National Plan for Waste Incident Response.

b) The People's Committee at the provincial level issues the Provincial Waste Incident Response Plan; the People's Committee at the district level issues the District Waste Incident Response Plan.

c) The project owner and facility are responsible for promulgating and organizing the implementation of a waste incident response plan in accordance with the content of environmental incident prevention and response in the decision approving the results of the appraisal of the environmental impact assessment report or environmental license.

d) National, provincial and district-level waste incident response plans are developed and issued every 5 years and updated, adjusted and supplemented annually when there are changes in conditions leading to changes in content, increasing the scale, or exceeding the response capacity compared to the plan.

3. Outline of layout and content of waste incident response plan:

a) Outline of the layout and content of the provincial and district-level waste incident response plan specified in Appendix I issued with Decision No. 146/QD-TTg;

b) Outline of the layout and content of the grassroots waste incident response plan specified in Appendix II issued with Decision No. 146/QD-TTg.