The current Act requires an industrial waste discharger, who intends to entrust waste treatment to someone, to entrust waste treatment after verifying whether the entrusted person has the capability to treat wastes in compliance with the standards for and methods of waste treatment and imposes an administrative fine not exceeding three million won when he/she violates it and requires a waste treatment business entity not to accept the entrustment of wastes treatment if it is impracticable to treat them at his/her own treatment facility or exceeds his/her disposal capacity and imposes an administrative fine not exceeding ten million won when he/she violates it.
However, the cases that waste treatment business entities leave wastes unauthorized after entrusting more wastes than their own capacities are constantly arising.
Therefore, the amendment aims to raise the standard amount of administrative fines to prevent the problem of waste being left unauthorized; imposing an administrative fine not exceeding 10 million won on an industrial waste discharger who does not verify whether the entrusted person has the capability to treat wastes and an administrative fine not exceeding 20 million won on a waste treatment business entity who accepts the entrustment of wastes treatment which is impracticable to treat them at his/her own treatment facility or exceeds his/her disposal capacity (Article 68).

Increase the administrative fine to impose an administrative fine not exceeding 10 million won on an industrial waste discharger who does not verify whether the entrusted person has the capability to treat wastes (Article 68)