Heavy metals industry will implement compulsory insurance of the environment

  At present, according to the environmental protection, welding jig designated by the circ on the principle of compulsory liability insurance of environmental pollution, on the basis of the relevant industry situation investigation, next year will be in heavy metal industry such as full implementation of compulsory liability insurance pilot pollution of the environment.

It is understood that the pilot will be in accordance with the "first point behind, after the first" principle, on the basis of summarizing the experience, gradually expanding the scope of the pilot cities, the pilot, the implementation of the pilot study and establish the provincial environmental pollution liability insurance, strive for the provincial basic work in place before the end of the year, 2014 full implementation.

Environmental pollution liability insurance in enterprise pollution accidents cause damage to a third party in accordance with the law shall bear the liability to pay compensation for the subject matter of the insurance, also known as the green insurance. Enterprise environmental pollution accident, except by the corresponding punishment according to law, but also for the pollution victims compensation and compensation.

Due to environmental pollution events involve wide, the compensation amount is huge, companies often cannot afford, easy to cause the final but the consequences of paying by local governments. After covered by insurance against liability for environmental pollution, the enterprise in the event of pollution accident, can obviously reduce burden of compensation, pollution victims can get economic compensation timely and reliably. At the same time as the insurance rates pegged to the enterprise environmental management, will help to improve environmental protection level.

Introduced in 2009 in hebei province "byelaw of reducing emissions, hebei province, has made environmental pollution liability insurance written into the relevant provisions, in 2010 completed the preliminary research of environmental pollution liability insurance.

In 2011 for the social universal attention of machine tool casting of heavy metals, dangerous chemical industry as the key point, take the lead by baoding city in related industries to carry out the pilot. Baoding city completed a total of 53 enterprises environmental pollution liability insurance of insurance, insurance amount 90 million yuan; 2012, the city a total of 57 insurance enterprise, insurance amount of 80 million yuan. In August 2012, hebei province, the first enterprise of sudden environmental pollution incidents caused by flooding ring insurance claims case, get paid in boye county.