RULES, REGULATIONS AND NEQS

Rules

1. Compounding of Offences and Payment of Administrative Penalty Rules 2015

2. Hospital Waste Management Rules, 2005

3. Pakistan Biosafety Rules 2005 (Amended 2024)

4. The Pollution Charge for Industry (Calculation and Collection) Rules, 2001 

5. Self-Monitoring and Reporting by Industries Rules, 2001-Amended 

6. Environmental Samples Rules, 2001 

7. Environmental Tribunal (Procedure and Functions) Rules, 1999

Regulations

1. Single-use Plastics (Prohibition) Regulations, 2023

2. National Environmental Quality Standards (Certification of Environmental Laboratories) Regulations, 2000

3. Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Review of IEE and EIA) Regulations, 2000

National Environment Quality Standards

1. National Environmental Quality Standards for Ambient Air, Drinking Water and Noise vide No.( S. R.O. 1062(I)/2010 &  S.R.O. 1063(I)/2010 & S.R.O. 1064(I)/2010)

2. National Environmental Quality Standards for Motor Vehicle Exhaust and Noise Vide No.(S.R.O 72(KE)/2009)

3. National Environmental Quality Standards (Self-Monitoring and Reporting by Industries) Rules, 2001

4. Revisied National Environmental Quality Standards For Municipal and Liquid Effluents (mg/l, Unless Otherwise Defined)& NEQS for Gaseous Emissions(mg/Nm3 Unless Otherwise Defined) Vide No.S.R.O. 549 (I)/2000

5. National Environmental Quality Standards Relating to Municipal and Liquid Industrial Effluents vide S.R.O. 742 (I)/93 & S.R.O. 1023 (I)/95

Draft Rules and Regulations 

(The draft Rules / Regulations,  are placed for information, review and input from the public and the concerned stake holders.)

1. Handling, Manufacture, Storage, Import of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Substances Rules, 2024

                               (Requested,  views/comments/inputs, by 31st January 2024)

2. Hospital Waste Management Rules, 2022.  

3. Initial Environmental Examination and Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations, 2022