Recently, it was learned from the Department of Transportation of Anhui Province that the third meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress of Anhui Province deliberated and adopted the Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Ship Pollution in the Yangtze River of Anhui Province (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations), which will come into effect on October 1 this year.
The Regulations, as the first regional coordinated legislation in the field of transportation in Anhui Province, strictly implement the legal requirements such as the Yangtze River Protection Law, and base the local legislation in Jiangsu and Shanghai on the actual work in Anhui Province. Focus on key areas such as prevention and control of water pollution from ships in the Yangtze River, prevention and control of air pollution, prevention and control of pollution from related operations, emergency disposal of accidents and regional cooperation, and refine, improve and standardize them, so as to provide local legislative basis for promoting joint prevention and control of pollution from ships in the Yangtze River Delta region. In the
next step, the Department of Transportation of Anhui Province, together with the Yangtze River Maritime Safety Administration, relevant units directly under the provincial government, relevant municipal people's governments and their relevant departments, will earnestly study, publicize, implement and implement the Regulations, accelerate the development of green shipping in Anhui Province, and work together to create a beautiful ecological picture of the Yangtze River with clear water and green banks.