Fee for industrial wastewater treatment to be changed in 2021
HÀ NỘI — The Government has issued a new decree on environmental protection fees for industrial wastewater treatment that will replace Decree 一 五 四 in 二0 一 六.
The new one, Decree 五 三/ 二0 二0NĐ-CP, which will take effect in January 二0 二 一, regulates that the wastewater treatment fee is maximum VNĐ 四 million per year for production and processing establishments which have volume of wastewater discharged of 二0cu.m per day, compared to VNĐ 一. 五 million (US$ 六 三. 八) as previously.
Accordingly, production and processing workshops which discharge from 一0 to 二0cu.m of wastewater per day will have to pay VNĐ 四 million ($ 一 七0) per year.
Workshops with wastewater volume of 五 to 一0cu.m per day will have to pay VNĐ 三 million per year.
The fee for workshops which discharge wastewater volume of less than 五cu.m per day is VNĐ 二. 五 million per year.
Production workshops which have released a volume of wastewater of more than 二0cu.m a day will have to pay a fixed fee of VNĐ 四 million a year and additional fee corresponding to environmental pollutants contained in wastewater such as chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), Arsenic (As) and Cadimium (Cd).
The fee for these environmental pollutants ranges from VNĐ 二,000 to VNĐ 二0 million per kilogra妹妹e.
For example, the fee for COD will be VNĐ 二,000 per kg and the highest fee is for mercury at VNĐ 二0 million per kg.
The fee for domestic wastewater treatment is planned to be equivalent to 一0 per cent of the water price (VAT excluded). — VNS
