Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/16
By: Wu Hsin-yun and Flor Wang 

Taipei, Oct. 16 (CNA) A raft of air pollution fees is being drafted and is expected to take effect in next spring, in an effort to better protect Taiwan’s environment and its people’s health, an Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) official said Monday.

Drafting of the rules is expected to be finalized by the end of this year and is scheduled to be put in place in April at the earliest, said Tsai Hung-teh (蔡鴻德), director-general of the EPA’s Department of Air Quality Protection and Noise Control.

By that time, around 8,000 factories that regularly emit PM2.5 particles will be required to pay air pollution fees, which are estimated to generate NT$1.2 billion (US$39.8 million) that will be used for air pollution control, according to Tsai.
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