Interim Measures for Hearing the Administrative License in Respect of Environmental Protection.

These Measures are enacted in accordance with the Administrative License Law and the Environmental Impact Assessment Law, aiming at regulating the administrative license in respect of environmental protection, guaranteeing and supervising the administration carried out in accordance with law by the administrative department in charge of environmental protection, improving the scientificity, impartiality, reasonableness and democracy of the administrative license in respect of environmental protection and safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations. The Measures consist of 38 Articles.
Article 5-7 provide for the scope for application of a hearing, including: (1) A hearing on the implementation of administrative license in respect of environmental protection shall be organized under the provisions of laws, regulations and rules; (2) The administrative department in charge of environmental protection deems it necessary to hold a hearing on the implementation of administrative license in respect of the major environmental protection involving the public interest; or (3) An applicant or interested party claims to hold a hearing in accordance with the law, when the administrative license in respect of environmental protection directly involves the interests between the applicant and others. The Measures further make provisions for: hearing host and attendances, procedures for hearing, offences and penalties, etc.