7.6
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Staff of the EP D
provide
some advice in the
course of
inspection visits, but this has to be limited to
the degree of abatement of pollution required and
to be achieved.
This advice is often
advice on
the standards
comp le mented
by a general indication of the nature of the
measures that should be adopted. This level of advice has
in the past been sufficient to enable a high proportion of
those concerned to take the action necessary to achieve
compliance.
7.7
Both
technical assistance and advice ma y
be
obtained from the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC), a
organisation.
non-profit-making
Government-subvented
HKPC's environmental manage ment di vision specialises in
pollution control work.
But even the HKPC cannot, under
present arrangements, reach out to a sufficient number of
sma 11 factories and work shops,
price they are willing to pay.
or
provide services at a
THE WAY FORWARD:
INSPECTION AND INVESTIGATION
7.8
The
Government
presence.
must work towards providing
establish and maintain a credible
The EP D has drawn
sufficient resources to
inspection and investigation
up
internal performance measures for inspecting every
category of offence, and investigating complaints.
ΤΟ
i mprove responses to local communities the Government plans
to regionalise control activities.
7.9
role
in
systematic
The private sector can also play a significant
'environmental auditing'
evaluation
the periodic and
by company management of the impact
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