Planning regulation to be ready by year end

The Planning Environmental Impact Assessment regulation (EIA), whose draft is now available for comment, is likely to be officially released this year, a senior environmental official said on the weekend.

Yang Chaofei, director of the policy, law and regulations department in the Ministry of Environmental Protection, told a forum jointly held with Greenpeace that the feedback process on the draft amendment would be finalized by Wednesday.

The draft will then be submitted to relevant authorities for review before its eventual release by the State Council at the end of the year.