Measures for the Accountability of Party and Government Leaders for Damage to the Ecological Environment (for Trial Implementation).

These Measures, consisting of 19 Articles, are enacted for purposes of accelerating the building of the ecological civilization, establishing a sound institutional system of the ecological civilization, and intensifying the functions of the Party and government leaders for the conservation of ecological environment and resources.
The local Party committees and governments at various levels shall assume the overall responsibilities for the conservation of the local ecological environment and resources, the major leaders of the Party committees and governments shall assume the primary responsibilities and other relevant leaders shall assume the corresponding responsibilities within the scope of their functions. Article 5 provide for the circumstances where the liabilities of the major leader of the corresponding local Party committee or government shall be investigated, including: The decision the major leader makes is contrary to policies, laws, and regulations relating to the ecological environment and resources; By violating the positioning of the main functional areas or breaking through the ecological red line of resources and environment and the urban development boundary, the major leader blindly makes decisions regardless of the carrying capacity of the resources and environment, causing serious consequences; etc.