Marine Pollution Control Act Article 9

Competent authorities shall, in accordance with marine environment categories, install marine environment monitoring stations or facilities in their respective marine jurisdictions, officially publish monitoring results at regular intervals and adopt appropriate control measures. When necessary, each industry competent authority may notice restrict the use of a marine area.Interfering with or damaging monitoring stations or facilities installed by competent authorities pursuant to the foregoing paragraph shall be prohibited.All categories of port management authorities and enterprises shall evaluate the use of the port zones under their jurisdiction, conduct water quality and sediment testing in the port zones and adopt measures in accordance with this Act and other related regulations to prevent, eliminate and mitigate pollution in the port zones under their jurisdiction. When necessary, the special municipality, county or city competent authorities and relevant agencies shall cooperate to adopt appropriate control measures.All categories of port industry competent authorities shall provide guidance for pollution abatement in the port zones under their jurisdiction.The central competent authority in consultation with each industry competent authority shall determine the marine environment monitoring items, monitoring stations or facility installation standards and sampling analysis methods in Paragraph 1 and the regulations of water quality and sediment testing of all categories of ports and other relevant matters in Paragraph 3.