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Under any of the following circumstances, enterprises shall adopt compulsory cleaner production examination: 
(1) Pollutant discharge exceeds the norms specified by the State or local authorities, or does not exceed the norms specified by the State or local authorities but exceeds the norms for the total amount of major pollutant discharge control ; 
(2) Exceeding the norms of energy consumption limit per unit product,which constitutes high energy consumption. 
(3) Using toxic or harmful raw materials in the production or discharging toxic or harmful substances in the course of production. 
Enterprises whose pollutant discharge exceeds either the national or local discharge standards shall make rectification in accordance with the relevant lawson environmental protection. 
Enterprises under compulsory cleaner production examination shall report the examination results to the comprehensive coordination departments of cleanerproduction and the departments of environmental protection under the localpeople's governments at or above the county level where they are located, publish such results through principal local media and receive supervision by the public,except where the results involve trade secrets. 
The relevant departments under local people's governments at or above the county level shall supervise the compulsory cleaner production examination conducted by enterprises, and shall, where necessary, organize evaluation of the effects of cleaner production implemented by enterprises. The relevant costs thereof shall be incorporated into government budgets at the same level.Departments or entities undertaking the evaluation shall not charge any fees from the enterprises subject to evaluation.

Preface
Publication Note

Under the guidance of the policy of promoting socialist democracy and building a sound socialist legal system formulated at the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party，the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee have，since 1979，enacted many important laws.These laws have been compiled and published in succession by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.

In order to acquaint readers abroad with China's laws and with what China has achieved in building a new legal system，the collections in Chinese entitled the Laws of the People's Republic of China，covering the period of 1979-2011，have been translated into English and published in 23 volumes at the Foreign Languages Press，the Science Press，and the Law Press respectively.We are now publishing，as Volume 24，the English edition of The Laws of the People's Republic of China（2012）at the Law Press.The publication note in the Chinese edition is not included.

This Volume（Vol.24）includes the laws and the decisions amending the laws，which were adopted by the National People's Congress or its Standing Committee in 2012.

This English edition represents a collective effort by specialists in law and in English translation working under the aegis of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.We wish to pay tribute to Tong Xiaohua，who revised and finalized the translations.Besides，a number of organizations provided the draft translations of the laws related to their work，and Xia Jihong and Da Ji did much work in the translation and preparation of this Volume.We wish to express our sincere thanks to all the persons and organizations that contributed to the publication of this Volume.

In spite of the great care taken by the translators and editors to produce an accurate translation，shortcomings and oversights are hardly avoidable，and criticism from readers will be appreciated.

In case of discrepancy between the English translation and the original Chinese text，the Chinese edition of The Laws of the People's Republic of China shall prevail.

The laws to be formulated by the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee will be translated into English and published in forthcoming volumes.