Daejeon City Special Judicial Police Crack Down on 8 Companies Including Unreported Air Emissions

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Daejeon City Special Judicial Police announced on the 8th that they recently conducted a planned investigation and uncovered eight companies violating environmental laws, including unreported air emission facilities and violations of environmental measurement agency management standards.

The planned investigation targeted air emission facilities such as furniture manufacturing and automobile painting facilities located near residential areas, as well as environmental measurement agencies.

The main violations included ▲ six cases of poor management such as delayed submission of documents related to measurement agency contracts ▲ two cases of operating unreported air emission facilities, totaling eight cases.

Among the companies caught, six environmental measurement agencies failed to comply with related regulations by delaying the submission of documents related to measurement agency contracts, and two companies were caught for installing and operating 15 kW wood sawing facilities generating fine dust near residential areas without reporting the installation of air emission facilities.

The city’s special judicial police will file criminal charges against the violators at these business sites and notify the relevant departments and autonomous districts to impose sanctions such as suspension of operations, suspension of use orders, and compliance orders.

Meanwhile, according to the city, the Ministry of Environment has recently amended and enforced laws requiring environmental measurement agencies to submit and have reviewed contract-related documents in advance to the Environmental Management Corporation, the agency managing measurement agency contracts, when entering into measurement agency contracts.

This measure reflects the frequent cases of poor management, such as collusion between environmental measurement agencies and target companies leading to false measurements during environmental pollutant measurement.

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