On January 9th, 2018, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued administrative penalty decisions against Shandong Kama Automobile Manufacture Co., Ltd. and Shandong Truck-King Automobile Co., Ltd. for violations of air pollution regulations. The two companies were penalized with fines in the amounts of 31,742,102.89 RMB and 7,036,317.64 RMB, respectively. The Ministry of Environmental Protection requires environmental protection bureaus at all administrative levels to fully comply with and implement the newly amended Law on Air Pollution Control, and it will severely penalize the manufacture of automobiles that exceed prescribed emissions controls and the fabrication of information on pollution-control devices. The two cases are the first penalties levied after the 19th CPC National Congress, and they are meant to set an example and strongly deter similar illegal environmental pollution activities.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection ordered Kama Company to suspend production in order to remedy its fabrication of information on pollution control devices, misrepresentation of substandard products as quality products, and falsification of its emission inspection results in order to market its products. All illegal gains were confiscated and a fine equal to double the value of the products was imposed. The confiscation and the fine amounted to a total of 31,742,102.89 RMB.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection ordered Truck-King Company to remedy its offense of manufacturing automobiles that exceeded emission control standards. It confiscated Truck-King Company’s illegal gains and imposed a fine equal to double the value of the products. The confiscation and the fine amounted to a total of 7,036,317.64 RMB. Mr. Weiyong Tian, Director of the Environmental Inspection Office of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, pointed out that the Ministry’s direct imposition of tens of millions of RMB in administrative penalties on the automobile manufacturers in these two typical environmental protection cases clearly demonstrates the Ministry’s “zero tolerance” policy toward illegal emissions.
(Source: Legal Daily)
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