Measures for Coordination Work between Administrative Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in Environmental Protection.

These Measures, consisting of 39 Articles, are enacted for the purposes of further refining the mechanism for the coordination work between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice in environment protection, punishing environmental criminal conduct in accordance with the law, practically maintaining public health, and advancing the building of ecological civilization.
These Measures shall apply to suspected environmental crimes cases dealt with by the environmental protection authorities, public security authorities and the people's procuratorates. The Measures provide for the working mechanisms to be followed on the collaboration between the environmental protection authorities, public security authorities and the people's procuratorates for the application of the law, refining notification of leads, referral of cases, resource sharing, information release, etc. The people's procuratorates shall conduct legal supervision according to the law of the referral of suspected environmental crimes cases by the environmental protection authorities and the docketing of referred cases by public security authorities.