Listed company environmental information notification system will be built

After one year of experimentation, the State Environmental Protection Administration officially issued the “Guidance Opinions on Strengthening the Environmental Protection Supervision of Listed Companies” on February 25. This guideline will focus on the environmental protection verification system and environmental information disclosure system of listed companies to curb excessive expansion of the “two high” industries and prevent capital risks. Pan Yue, deputy director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, said that "green securities" is the third environmental economic policy following "green credit" and "green insurance."
The Opinions require that companies that are engaged in thermal power, iron and steel, cement, electrolytic aluminum and trans-provincial “two-high” industries (13 heavily polluting industries) apply for IPO or refinancing must be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the SEPA. Environmental verification. According to the Notice of the China Securities Regulatory Commission on the Notice of the Application Documents for the IPO Application of the Heavy Pollution Industry Production and Operation Companies, if the heavy pollution industry production and operation company applies for initial public offering of stocks, the application documents shall provide verification opinions of the State Environmental Protection Administration; In case of verification opinions, the application will not be accepted. According to this, the environmental verification opinion will be one of the necessary conditions for the CSRC to accept the application.
Pan Yue said that SEPA will also explore with the Securities Regulatory Commission the establishment of a mechanism for the coordination and information notification of environmental supervision of listed companies, and regularly notify the China Securities Regulatory Commission of the environmental information of listed companies and listed companies that have not disclosed environmental information as required by the Environmental Information Disclosure Measures. List, relevant information will also be announced to the public. The State Environmental Protection Administration will also select the “Two-High” industrial sector to conduct pilot environmental performance evaluations of listed companies and publish the annual environmental performance index and ranking of listed companies.
According to reports, at present, the disclosure of China's listed companies on their own environmental information is still not in place. In the annual report of listed companies in 2006, only 50% of companies disclosed environmental information, and most of the disclosures were qualitative descriptions. Useful environment The amount of information is small, and some companies subject to environmental administrative sanctions have not disclosed it in a timely manner. In the first round of environmental protection verification conducted by the State Environmental Protection Administration, Hebei Weiyuan Biochemical Co., Ltd., Guangdong Wanxing Inorganic Pigments Co., Ltd. and other companies failed to pass the audit.