Environmental Monitoring and Audit

It needs great vigilance to ensure a project's environmental performance
reaches the goals that impact assessments set. In 1992 the EPD set up a
monitoring and audit team, and subsequently Environmental Project
Offices in West Kowloon and in Kwai Tsing, to tackle environmental
problems with the Airport Core Projects in these areas.

Monitoring and audit have now become an integral part of the EIA
process. Often they extend beyond the construction of a project into its
operation. Hong Kong's environmental monitoring and audit activities have
been highly rated by international peer review. The department has
published a revised Environmental Monitoring and Audit Manual to
provide general guidance. In 1997, the department managed about 89
monitoring and audit programmes for major projects, including the Airport
Core Projects.

[Back] [Forward]