RESHUFFLE: The bills, if passed by the Legislative Yuan, would upgrade the EPA to a ministry of environmental resources and the COA to a ministry of agriculture
Taipei Times
Date: May 04, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
The Executive Yuan yesterday approved 43 draft amendments to the Organizational Act
From left, Atomic Energy Council Deputy Minister Chiu Tzu-tsung, Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai, Directorate-General of Personnel Administration Minister Jay Shih, Cabinet spokesman Hsu Kuo-yung, Environmental Protection Administration Minister Lee Ying-yuan, Deputy Minister of the Interior Hua Ching-chun, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Chen Chi-chung and Executive Yuan Office of Science and Technology Executive Secretary Tsai Zse-hong attend a news conference at the Executive Yuan in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
of the Executive Yuan (行政院組織法), which, if passed by legislators, would implement a long-awaited restructuring of government, including upgrading the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to a ministry of environmental resources.
According to the draft amendments, the ministry of environmental resources would take over part of the responsibilities that fall under the Council of Agriculture (COA), the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC).
Those include forestry and wildlife conservation, water and soil conservation, and weather forecasting.
Unlike other agencies involved in the restructuring, the proposed environment ministry would be practically an entirely new agency rather than the product of an internal reorganization, Directorate-General of Personnel Administration Minister Jay Shih (施能傑) told a news conference in Taipei. [FULL STORY]