National plan for waste incident response for the period 2023

The National Plan for Responding to Waste Incidents for the 2023-2030 period aims to ensure centralized and unified direction in state management of responding to and overcoming waste incidents; mobilize and effectively use resources, respond and overcome consequences promptly; closely coordinate with functional agencies from the 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 are proposed to prevent, respond to and overcome the consequences of incidents, 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 directs 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 and Disaster Response and Search and Rescue develops a National Plan for Waste Incident Response.

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

c) The project owner and facility are responsible for issuing and organizing the implementation of the 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 are updated, adjusted and supplemented annually when conditions change, leading to changes in content, increasing scale, or exceeding 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.