May 17, 2024

Ministry of Environmental Protection: Accelerating the Establishment of Environmental Pollution Liability Insurance System

In response to the severe situation of China's environmental pollution accidents, relevant officials of the Ministry of Environmental Protection said this afternoon that they will accelerate the formulation of policies and regulations and establish an effective environmental pollution liability insurance system.
Decentralizing Corporate Risks The 2010 China High-Level Green Economy Policy Symposium, sponsored by the China Association of Environmental Journalists, opened at Peking University on the afternoon of the 15th. The theme of this seminar is environmental pollution liability insurance.
During the keynote speech, Yang Chaofei, chief engineer of the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s nuclear safety program, said that at present, China’s environmental pollution accidents are on a high-risk situation, and industrial accidents in some local industries are frequent, seriously polluting the environment, endangering people’s health and social stability, especially some pollution. Accident victims cannot receive timely compensation and are prone to mass incidents.
According to a 2008 survey conducted by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, 81 percent of the 7575 large-scale heavy chemical industry projects are located in environmentally sensitive areas such as river waters and densely populated areas; 45% are major sources of risk. In 2009, there were 18 blood lead accidents alone. In 2010, pollution accidents such as PetroChina and Zijin Mining continued in succession and the overall deterioration of the environment was not completely contained. At the same time, China's corresponding environmental pollution prevention mechanism has flaws.
"If we want to fundamentally solve these problems, we must proceed from reality, strengthen the mechanism for responding to pollution accidents, and establish a long-term mechanism for environmental protection." Yang Chaofei said that the environmental pollution liability insurance system is a very important long-term environmental protection Effect mechanism.
He said that environmental pollution liability insurance is an independent market activity that operates under the supervision and guidance of the government, is a cooperative contract under the dual influence of the legal system and the law of value, and is a new type that reduces environmental risks and increases operating profits. Insurance.
Yang Chaofei believes that environmental pollution liability insurance can diversify the risks of enterprises, improve the ability of enterprises to prevent risks, assist victims in a timely manner, and protect the interests of victims. Its implementation is conducive to the establishment of a pollution accident rescue mechanism to reduce the government's burden, but also conducive to expanding social supervision, reduce the risk of environmental pollution, and improve the ability to deal with environmental risks.
"Accelerating the establishment of China's environmental pollution liability insurance system is an important attempt to use market methods in the field of environmental protection," Yang Chaofei said.
In 2008, the Guiding Opinions on the Work of Environmental Pollution Liability Insurance jointly formulated by the State Environmental Protection Administration and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") was officially announced.
According to the requirements of the Opinions, the two departments were involved in the production, operation, storage, transportation, and use of hazardous chemicals companies and petrochemical companies and hazardous waste disposal companies prone to pollution accidents in 2008, especially those that have experienced major pollution accidents in recent years. And the industry to carry out pilot work on environmental pollution liability insurance.
The "Opinions" clearly state that "environmental pollution liability insurance" is an insurance policy in which a company is liable for damages when a pollution accident occurs to a third party. The road map for completing the environmental pollution liability insurance system will be divided into two steps: First, during the “11th Five-Year Plan” period, an environmental pollution liability insurance system in line with China’s national conditions will be initially established; the second step, by 2015, Basically improve the environmental pollution liability insurance system, and promote it throughout the country. Risk assessment, loss assessment, responsibility determination, accident handling, and fund payment and other mechanisms are continuously improved.
Need to speed up the pilot program. According to the reporter's understanding, China's environmental pollution liability insurance policy started late on the whole. In recent years, some progresses have been made in some local pilots, but due to factors such as related policies, systems, and supporting publicity, it has resulted in In the actual operation encountered many flaws.
In the first two years, among the three types of companies that tried to take the lead in the two sectors, there was not much interest in environmental pollution liability insurance. Some industry giants, including PetroChina, Sinopec, etc., said at the time that they “supported the implementation of environmental pollution liability insurance, but it is not appropriate to include large chemical companies in the scope of the compulsory insurance for environmental pollution.” These companies also Whether insurance can meet the protection needs of environmental risks has doubts. In some places, there are also difficulties in advancing the "Opinions."
Zhu Yujuan, a staff member of Chongqing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, told reporters that at present, enterprises generally have low enthusiasm for environmental pollution liability insurance pilot projects. There are three main types of situations: First, they consider that their companies are completely free of environmental risks and do not need to purchase environmental pollution liability insurance; The second is that they can purchase, but they are skeptical about the insurance company's insurance products and service quality. Third, the government has asked for similar insurance coverage such as safety liability insurance. Environmental pollution liability insurance is duplicate insurance.
However, this situation has changed. This afternoon, China Ping An Property Insurance Co., Ltd., China People's Property and Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd., as well as officials from the Hunan Environmental Protection Agency and Chongqing Environmental Protection Bureau all expressed their recognition of the environmental pollution liability insurance.
Chen Zhongyu, deputy general manager of China People's Property Insurance Co., Ltd., told reporters that establishing an environmental pollution liability insurance system can not only shift the risks faced by the company, but also promote the strengthening of enterprises through mechanisms such as rate leverage, disaster prevention and loss prevention, and economic compensation. Risk management, enhance safety precautions, reduce pollution risks, and most importantly, the system can achieve prompt and effective compensation and pollution cleanup afterwards, safeguard the interests of third parties, and reduce government pressure.
According to Chen Zhongyu, as of July 2010, the company has 10 subsidiaries that have developed and filed special environmental pollution liability insurance products, and nine branches have already issued a single underwriting business. On May 8th, a phosphorus chemical fertilizer smelter in Yunnan was leaked due to the waste of phosphorus slag. Combined with heavy rain, pollutants flowed into nearby fish ponds, causing property damage. It has been filed and claims work is being carried out in an orderly manner.
Ping An Property & Casualty Co., Ltd. participated in the investigation and development of environmental pollution liability insurance for the first time. Wu Zhijun, deputy general manager of Hunan Branch of Pingan Insurance Co., Ltd., told reporters that after nearly a year of research and development, in April 2008, Pingan P&C's self-developed environmental pollution liability insurance products were filed with the China Insurance Regulatory Commission and formally introduced to the market. In July of that year, the first environmental pollution liability insurance policy was issued, with a compensation limit of 500,000 yuan. In the past two years, Ping An of China has provided insurance protection against environmental pollution liability insurance for more than 350 companies, and has provided a total of more than 3.5 billion yuan in risk protection.
As one of the pilot cities for national environmental pollution liability insurance, Hunan Province has so far received 28 companies' environmental protection accidents and received insurance company services and compensation. The total amount of pending and pending claims totaled nearly 2.81 million yuan.
Xie Li, Deputy Director of the Department of Environmental Protection of Hunan Province, told reporters that at the end of September 2008, an insured Zhuzhou pesticide plant had a hydrogen chloride leak, which caused damage to surrounding crops. The damaged farmers gathered in the factory and demanded compensation. tension. The insured Ping An Company dispatched people to the scene to investigate and collect evidence immediately after hearing the news, and actively participated in the negotiation of the claims between the company and the peasants, and finally reached a compensation agreement that was satisfactory to all companies, farmers, and insurance companies.
Yang Chaofei said that it is necessary to speed up the pilot project of environmental pollution liability insurance, improve relevant laws and regulations at the national level, and strengthen the management of environmental pollution risks for insured companies.

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