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Title: Resource Recycling Act CH
Category: Ministry of Environment(環境部)
Chapter 3 Operational Management
Article 15
The central competent authority shall announce renewable resource items that must be reused.
The central competent authority in consultation with the central industry competent authority and reuse industry competent authority shall determine collection, transport, and storage methods, facilities standards, reuse standards, records, and other binding matters with regard to the reuse of recycled resources.
The central industry competent authority shall announce renewable resource items that must be recycled.
The central industry competent authority in consultation with the central competent authority and recycling industry competent authority shall determine collection, transport, and storage methods, facilities standards, recycling standards, records, and other binding matters with regard to the recycling of recycled resources.
Enterprises may submit reuse or recycling plans for items not yet officially announced as recycled resources and apply to the central competent authority or central industry competent authority for approval as renewable resource items.
The central competent authority or central industry competent authority shall determine the format and content of the reuse or recycling plans in the foregoing paragraph.
Article 16
Recycled resources and recycled products shall meet national standards. The central industry competent authority in consultation with the central competent authority shall announce standards for items for which there are no national standards.
Regulations in Chapter 4 Assistance and Incentive Measures of this Act are not applicable if recycled resources or recycled products fail to meet standards pursuant to the foregoing paragraph.
Article 17
The central competent authority in consultation with the central industry competent authority may restrict or prohibit the import or export of recycled resources so as to effectively recycle and reuse domestic recycled resources.
The central competent authority in consultation with relevant agencies shall determine the restriction, prohibition, and related management of the import or export of recycled resources in the foregoing paragraph.
Article 18
Enterprises officially announced and designated by the central competent authority shall report to the central competent authority their production, storage, collection, transport, reuse, recycling, import, export, transit, or transshipment of recycled resources via the Internet and in accordance with the format, items, content, and frequency required by the central competent authority. If authorized by the central competent authority, however, enterprises may report by some means other than the Internet.
Article 19
Any recycled resources not recycled or reused in accordance with regulations shall be considered waste, and shall be recycled, cleared, and disposed of pursuant to the Waste Disposal Act.
Any recycled resources that cannot be reused or recycled shall be cleared and disposed of pursuant to the Waste Disposal Act.
Article 20
For waste that is required to be recycled pursuant to the Waste Disposal Act and that is also a renewable resource as officially announced pursuant to this Act, recycling, storage, and the collection, safekeeping and utilization of recycling, clearance and disposal fees shall be subject to the regulations of the Waste Disposal Act.
Article 21
The competent authority and industry competent authority, or a commissioned professional organization, may dispatch personnel bearing identification documents to enter enterprise or renewable resource recycling and reuse operational, working, or business premises to perform inspection and request relevant information.
Relevant businesses may not evade, obstruct, or refuse any inspections or requests in the foregoing paragraph.
Before commissioning a professional organization to independently perform the inspection in Paragraph 1, the competent authority and industry competent authority shall announce the commissioned tasks and basis for such inspection and shall notify the premises to be inspected.