Reasons for Proposal
Recently, fertilizer business entities which produce fertilizers from food waste load and bury fertilizers, which are unfertilized properly in farmland or forest land, by unjustifiable collusion with users, etc., in the process of providing bulk fertilizers (supplied directly to farmland by truck, etc.), which causes serious environmental pollution such as odor, soil pollution, water pollution and many civil complaints of residents.
The current Act, however, has no specific regulation for the storage, distribution, and management of such food waste fertilizers. As a resulst, by maliciously exploiting it, some fertilizer producers are causing serious damage to the rural residents, such as foul odors and polluting drinking water sources, farmland and forest land.
In particular, the food waste fertilizers are being loaded and buried in clean, natural rural areas to avoid management supervision, which results in all kinds of odor and pollution.
Accordingly, this Amendment requires fertilizer producers, etc., to report the type of fertilizer, date and amount of supply to the competent local governments in advance when fertilizer producers, etc., supply bulk fertilizers directly to farmland; limits the supply of the fertilizers that may cause contamination; prohibits them from supplying or using the fertilizers outside the prescribed purposes; imposes management obligations such as prevention of environmental pollution in the production, distribution, and storage of fertilizers; and prescribes that the fertilizer producers who do not report in advance and have caused environmental pollution may receive criminal punishment in addition to measures such as recollection and disposal (Article 14, and Article 19-2 newly inserted, etc.).
Major Provisions
Require any fertilizer business entity to report to the head of the competent local government in advance if he/she sells and supplies bulk fertilizers (Article 14-1)
Issue an order against owner of fertilizers to take necessary measures if there is no fertilizer business entity for the fertilizer that violates the harmful ingredients specified in the legal standards (Article 19)
Impose fertilizer producers a fertilizer management obligation such as preventing environment polluting behavior and prohibiting the sale of fertilizers with the potential for contamination (Article 19-2)
