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Interim Provisions On The Food Waste Disposal Management In Lanzhou City

Original Language Title: 兰州市餐厨垃圾集中处置管理暂行规定

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Provisional regulations for the management of catering kitchen garbage in the city of Land

(The third regular meeting of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Länder on 22 March 2010 considered the adoption of Decree No. [2010] No. 2 of 30 March 2010 for the People's Government of the Länder (effective 1 May 2010)

Article 1 promotes the use of the resource cycle, in accordance with the Act on Environmental Control of Solidal Wastes in the People's Republic of China, the State Council Regulation on Urban Integrity and Sanitation, and the Land Towns and Sanitation Management Approach, which incorporates the actual use of the city.

Article 2, paragraph 2, applies to the generation, collection, transport, handling and monitoring of kitchen garbage in the administration of the city.

Article 3 refers to the garbage and the residues generated by food processing, catering, unit feeding and residues other than the daily lives of the population. Among them, the kitchen garbage refers to the residues of food residues and food-processing wastes; the residue of residues from unused flourable vegetable oils and cooking residues and residues from oil-sidues, oil tanks, etc.

Article IV governs the management of integrated surveillance by the municipal authorities for the central disposal of meals.

Regional, district and municipal authorities are responsible for the generation, collection, transport and handling of routine monitoring management of kitchen garbage in the region.

The integrated administrative law enforcement sector in urban management violates the provisions for the centralized disposal of meals.

Article 5 Food medicine surveillance management is responsible for the supervision of the catering consumption chain, and is charged with the production of food for cooking garbage for feeding.

Quality-technical supervision management is responsible for the supervision of the food production chain, and is mandated by the Food Productive Unit to carry out food production for cooking garbage.

The business administration is responsible for the supervision of the food flow chain and for the sale of the residues by law.

The agricultural administration is responsible for the supervision of the planting plantations and the use by law of the garbage for livestock and poultry, which is not dealt with in an environmentally sound manner.

Other relevant sectors, such as health, environmental protection, public safety and commerce, should be guided by their respective responsibilities in the management of the kitchen waste disposal oversight.

Article 6: The principle of quantification, resourceization, irreversibility” and “person generation, responsibility” for the collection, transport and disposal of the kitchen garbage should ensure the soundization.

To advocate for the reduction of the generation of cooking garbage through net vegetables, improved food processing processes and civilization.

To encourage and support the development and installation of cooking garbage-processing technologies, scientific research and process improvements to catering for garbage, and to promote resource use of cooking garbage.

Article 7, any unit or individual, has the right to report and complain about violations of the provisions of the garbage disposal.

Upon receipt of reports and complaints, the relevant meals surveillance management shall be subject to verification in a timely manner, in accordance with their respective statutory functions and shall communicate the results to the removal, the complainant.

Article 8.

The catering for garbage is included in the urban garbage system, with specific approaches and fees for the management of which are governed by municipal prices, the financial sector will be established with the municipal authorities to cater for sanitation, followed by the approval of the Government of the city.

Article 9.

The market operating model for the collection, transport and handling of cement garbage should be determined by fair competition, such as tendering, in units that have obtained the operation of garbage disposal services in urban areas.

The collection, transport and disposal of kitchen garbage should form a network system that should be aligned with the overall urban planning and land-use planning.

Article 10: The garbage generation unit shall comply with the following provisions:

(i) Within 30 days of the publication of the present provision, a kitchen garbage declaration process has been made available to the district, district and municipal authorities in the region;

(ii) Storage of cooking garbage and other garbage storage;

(iii) Within standard containers that meet the catering stocks and maintain the integrity of storage containers, producing residues, and providing for the installation of contaminated treatment facilities such as oil-sidues or oil tanks;

(iv) A collection of the garbage generated within 24 hours of the collection of units authorized by the law for urban garbage disposal services.

The kitchen garbage is prohibited to refer the kitchen garbage to units or individuals who do not have access to urban garbage disposal services.

Article 11. Activities in the collection, transport and handling of catering services should be authorized by law to the municipal authorities for the management of sanitation in urban areas for the clearance of urban garbage disposal services.

Approvals for the collection, transport and treatment of garbage in this city are carried out by the municipal authorities in charge of sanitation, in accordance with the State Department's provisions for the granting of administrative licences for administrative projects to be retained.

Article 12 units applying for the collection and transport of kitchen garbage shall meet the following conditions:

(i) The applicant is a corporate legal person registered under the law and registered capital is not less than $3 million in the national currency;

(ii) A kitchen garbage transport vehicle with the functions of preventing the proliferation of infrequents, the defence of remains, and the leakage;

(iii) A sound technology, quality, safety and monitoring management system and effective implementation;

(iv) Licence of lawful road transport, vehicle route;

(v) There are fixed office and mechanical, equipment, vehicle parking sites.

The units requesting for the processing of the catering kit should meet the following conditions:

(i) The applicant is a corporate legal person registered under the law and registered capital is not less than $5 million in the national currency;

(ii) The location of the kitchen garbage disposal facility is in line with urban and rural planning and access to planning licence documents;

(iii) Daily processing capacity is not less than 100 tons;

(iv) There are at least five persons with primary and higher technical functions, including specialized technical personnel such as environmental works, machinery, environmental monitoring; technical heads have experience in the processing of refrigeration services for more than five years and have higher-level technical qualifications;

(v) A well-developed regulatory system for the operation of processes, equipment management, environmental monitoring and protection, financial management, production security, measurement statistics, and effective implementation;

(vi) Improved wastewater treatment programmes for residues such as wastewater, waste and residues;

(vii) Development of pre-emptions to control pollution and emergencies.

In the course of the intensive disposal of kitchen garbage, collection, transport and disposal services, the following provisions should be observed:

(i) Prohibition of the placement of a kitchen garbage into the watercourse or otherwise dumping;

(ii) Prohibition of the provision of catering kitchen garbage to the collection, processing units or individuals without permission from the competent authorities;

(iii) Prohibition of direct or processing the production of garbage as livestock feeds;

(iv) Prohibition of the use of residues or their processing products for food processing.

Article 15. Units engaged in the collection and transport of garbage should comply with the following provisions:

(i) A specialized transport equipment and tools that are consistent with environmental standards and integrity and are not compromised;

(ii) Exclusive transport and non-removable, dripage, remains in the transport process;

(iii) The daily collection of kitchen garbage (including statutory holidays) will be produced and the day-to-day collection will be achieved;

(iv) A kitchen garbage on the day to be delivered to units that have been approved for the operation of the urban garbage disposal services.

Article 16 units dealing with meals should be subject to the following provisions:

(i) Resistance of facilities, equipment for treatment of garbage should be assured; the need for screening should be reported to the municipal authorities on 15 days in advance;

(ii) The establishment of security institutions and dedicated security managers, the sound and implementation of security management systems, the provision of security facilities, the development of security emergency prestiges and the safe operation of facilities;

(iii) Effective pollution control measures in the process, in accordance with the relevant provisions of environmental protection;

(iv) Prohibition of the receipt, processing of the kitchen garbage delivered by units or individuals that have not been authorized for the operation of garbage disposal services;

(v) Prohibition of the sale of food residues after the processing of residues;

(vi) Registration statistics on the origin, quantity, type and operation of the kitchen garbage and the issuance of relevant statements to the host city's administrative authorities;

(vii) The kitchen garbage and its processing products shall not be used for food processing and shall not be used as feeds.

Article 17 Administrative authorities in charge of sanitation should conduct oversight inspections of the production, collection, transport and processing of kitchen garbage in the current administration area.

The inspected unit or the individual should, if any, provide material related to the contents of the examination, not be misleading or concealing the facts, without denying or blocking the inspection.

Article 18 Departments such as urban sanitation, urban law enforcement and their staff members, in violation of the provisions of the centralized disposal supervision for cooking garbage, have one of the following acts, which are administratively disposed of by the unit or the inspectorate to the principal holder, the head and the person directly responsible; and in serious circumstances constitute a crime, criminal responsibility is held by law:

(i) Non-compliance with the oversight responsibilities under the law;

(ii) In violation of the provisions of the disposal of the catering kitchen garbage units and the catering garbage disposal units, it is not promptly checked or checked;

(iii) Inadequate and timely and effective measures to the effect of the cooking of garbage disposal or may lead to environmental pollution;

(iv) Reports, complaints of violations of the provisions of the catering kitchen disposal, are not promptly investigated or detected.

Article 19 Contrary to this provision, one of the following acts has been committed by the municipal law enforcement authorities to reorder the deadline and to provide warnings; the delay is not rectified by a fine of more than 5,000 dollars:

(i) The procedures for the production of a kitchen garbage for competent authorities, as required;

(ii) No provision for the storage of cooking garbage and other garbage;

(iii) The garbage of the meal kit is privately placed into the watercourse or otherwise dumped.

In violation of this provision, the garbage generated by the meal kit was handed over to the units that had not been authorized by the law for the operation of the urban garbage disposal services, which were ordered by the urban law enforcement authorities for a period of time to be converted to warning, and the impossibility of the delay was fined by over 3,000 dollars.

Article 21, units engaged in the collection and transport of cooks, violates this provision, consists of one of the following acts, being retroactive and warnings by the municipal administration of law enforcement authorities; and a fine of up to 1 million yen of 2000:

(i) No provision is made to meet environmental standards and integrity and to complete the collection of containers, specialized transport equipment and tools;

(ii) Inadequate transport as prescribed, and in the course of transport, loss, slack and remains;

(iii) No kitchen garbage will be collected on a daily basis (including statutory holidays);

(iv) The transfer of kitchen garbage to units that are subject to approval by urban garbage disposal services is not provided.

In violation of this provision, a unit dealing with meal kitchen garbage has one of the following acts, which is responsible for the cessation of the offence by the city's law enforcement authorities, a period of time being retroactive, a warning; and a fine of up to 1 million yen of 2000:

(i) No statistical declaration of the origin, quantity, type and operation of the kitchen garbage as required;

(ii) The establishment of security institutions and the dedicated security manager, the sound and implementation of the security management system and the provision of security facilities;

(iii) To ensure the safe operation of facilities, without the provision of a security emergency advance case;

(iv) Failure to maintain maintenance by providing for the maintenance of the kitchen waste disposal facilities, equipment cannot sustainably operate;

(v) There is no need for the revision to be made available to the competent authorities on a prescribed time frame.

In violation of this provision by a unit dealing with meal kitchen garbage, one of the following acts is committed by the urban law enforcement authorities to put an end to the offence and to provide a warning; and a fine of up to 3,000 k million yen was imposed by the late replacement.

(i) Inadequate implementation of the relevant provisions of environmental protection, pollution control measures taken in the course of disposal lead to secondary contamination;

(ii) Products produced do not meet national quality standards;

(iii) To receive, deal with units or individuals that do not have access to urban garbage disposal services for the delivery of kitchen garbage.

Article 24 of the Act on Food Security of the People's Republic of China provides for the confiscation of proceeds of violations, food products operating in violation of this provision and items such as instruments, equipment, raw materials, etc.; less than 1 million yen of the goods produced in violation of the law; and a fine of more than 500,000 dollars of the value of the goods in excess of the amount of shipment;

(i) Removal of food residues after processing;

(ii) For food processing and feeding.

Article 25 may apply to administrative review or administrative proceedings in accordance with this provision by the parties.

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