Promoting Ecological Progress with Procuratorial Services
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of relevant policies and measures, promote citizens to exercise the right to know, to
participate in environmental affairs, to plead, and to supervise environmental affairs,
and thus enhance the public’s rational understanding and scientific participation in
environmental protection.
Fourth, we should promote the establishment of a sound multi-party settlement
mechanism for environmental and resource disputes. The legal supervision power of
procuratorial organs is exercised not only throughout environmental criminal litigation, but also in the procuratorial work related to administrative and public-interest
litigation: they supervise not only the courts to exercise impartial justice and but also
administrative organs to administer according to law, thus playing an important and
irreplaceable role in facilitating the settlement of conflicts and disputes over the environment and resources. We must follow and develop the “Fengqiao Model” in the new
era, step up efforts to resolve conflicts and disputes over environmental protection,
and promote the integration of diverse forces and resources and the linkage between
mediation, arbitration, administrative reconsideration, administrative adjudication,
administrative litigation, and procuratorial supervision. Organically connect. The
goal is to form a multi-party settlement mechanism for environment and resource
disputes based on information and resource sharing, complementary advantages, and
win-win cooperation, and prevent the escalation of these disputes into criminal cases
or mass petitions.
4 Strengthening Team Building and Establishing a Team
of Prosecutors with Comprehensive Environmental
Knowledge and Legal Expertise
Environmental cases are hard to handle for they often involve knowledge and multiple
laws and regulations in such fields as environmental protection, land, forestry,
water conservancy, and atmosphere, with high proof standards. To strengthen the
environment-related procuratorial work, we must work to set up specialized organs
and cultivate specialized talents.
One is to establish a specialized department for legal supervision over
environment-related procuratorial work. Specialized procuratorial organs are platforms and carriers to improve the professional level of environment-related procuratorial work. For example, the Huzhou Municipal Procuratorate was the first in
Zhejiang Province to open a prosecutor’s office in the ecology and environment
bureaus at the municipal and county levels, and establish a daily liaison mechanism
for case consultation, information sharing, and clue transfer. The Quzhou Municipal Procuratorate of Zhejiang has established a four-in-one working mechanism
consisting of “punishment, repair, prevention, and protection,” promotes the model
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of relevant policies and measures, promote citizens to exercise the right to know, to
participate in environmental affairs, to plead, and to supervise environmental affairs,
and thus enhance the public’s rational understanding and scientific participation in
environmental protection.
Fourth, we should promote the establishment of a sound multi-party settlement
mechanism for environmental and resource disputes. The legal supervision power of
procuratorial organs is exercised not only throughout environmental criminal litigation, but also in the procuratorial work related to administrative and public-interest
litigation: they supervise not only the courts to exercise impartial justice and but also
administrative organs to administer according to law, thus playing an important and
irreplaceable role in facilitating the settlement of conflicts and disputes over the environment and resources. We must follow and develop the “Fengqiao Model” in the new
era, step up efforts to resolve conflicts and disputes over environmental protection,
and promote the integration of diverse forces and resources and the linkage between
mediation, arbitration, administrative reconsideration, administrative adjudication,
administrative litigation, and procuratorial supervision. Organically connect. The
goal is to form a multi-party settlement mechanism for environment and resource
disputes based on information and resource sharing, complementary advantages, and
win-win cooperation, and prevent the escalation of these disputes into criminal cases
or mass petitions.
4 Strengthening Team Building and Establishing a Team
of Prosecutors with Comprehensive Environmental
Knowledge and Legal Expertise
Environmental cases are hard to handle for they often involve knowledge and multiple
laws and regulations in such fields as environmental protection, land, forestry,
water conservancy, and atmosphere, with high proof standards. To strengthen the
environment-related procuratorial work, we must work to set up specialized organs
and cultivate specialized talents.
One is to establish a specialized department for legal supervision over
environment-related procuratorial work. Specialized procuratorial organs are platforms and carriers to improve the professional level of environment-related procuratorial work. For example, the Huzhou Municipal Procuratorate was the first in
Zhejiang Province to open a prosecutor’s office in the ecology and environment
bureaus at the municipal and county levels, and establish a daily liaison mechanism
for case consultation, information sharing, and clue transfer. The Quzhou Municipal Procuratorate of Zhejiang has established a four-in-one working mechanism
consisting of “punishment, repair, prevention, and protection,” promotes the model