Evaluation and ranking of several enterprises according to the Binh Duong green Book criteria in 2022

Abstract

Since 2010, the authorities of Binh Duong province has focused on encouraging and prompting establishments that perform well in environmental protection through the form of Binh Duong Provincial Green Book every two years. This is for the purpose of honoring the establishments operating in Binh Duong province that good at environmental protection, creating the motivation to improve environmental management and more businesses will be encouraged in doing well in environmental protection; thereby bringing positive results in the province's environmental protection work. In 2022, to follow up the innovations in environmental protection regulations and to contribute to the implementation of the state's policy on environmental protection as prescribed in Clause 8 Article 5 of the Law on Environmental Protection in 2020, the process and set of criteria for assessing in Binh Duong provincial Green Book have been adjusted in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Environmental Protection 2020, Decree 08/2022/ND-CP and Circular 02/2022/TT-BTNMT. The results applied in 95 enterprises in many different industries and areas in Binh Duong province showed that 53.25% of enterprises met the criteria of the Green Book. The set of evaluation criteria has a total score of 108 points, including 03 groups of main criteria and sub-criteria focusing on assessing compliance with environmental regulations and standards and industrial hygiene; compliance assessment of environmental procedures, records and related matters; and incentive scoring criteria. Each criterion group is scored based on its importance. Based on the actual survey results, the ranking of each enterprise is based on the score calculated according to this set of criteria. Up to 46.75% of enterprises did not meet the criteria due to many objective and subjective reasons, some of which are mainly as follows: Lack of certification of completion of environmental protection works or the waste treatment systems as prescribed in Decree 40/2019/ND-CP; the non-standard/normative of the results of environmental analysis at the time of survey; operating not in accordance with the approved Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA); and lack of approved environmental records. This assessment result has been used as a basis by the People's Committee of Binh Duong province to commend and reward enterprises with good achievements in environmental protection work in the province.