By , 2008-03-08 12:00:00
China will strengthen supervision of exports and ban those which will lead to environmental pollution, said Zhang Lijun, vice- director of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA).
Mr. Zhang said ¡°environmental protection departments will set up a database to collect information of those exporters who violate environmental protection rules and also keep details of efforts made to clean up their act by these exporting companies.¡±
Mr. Zhang said the SEPA would enhance information exchanges with the Ministry of Commerce to strengthen the supervision.
The SEPA and MOC have issued a notice earlier that exporters would be banned from trading abroad for one to three years if they were found seriously violating environmental protection rules.
Analysts said the measures were the harshest ones the MOC had adopted to crack down on environmental violations in the last four years.
There has been a shift in the style of punishments doled out by the SEPA to polluters in recent years.
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