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Strengthening the seasonal management system for fine dust
Vehicles are also repressed outside the metropolitan area
Target of ‘20% reduction in direct emissions’
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The government will implement a seasonal management system from next month to March to deal with the period of high concentration of fine dust in winter. It is a policy to manage fine dust emissions with a reinforced seasonal management system, such as the implementation of restrictions on the operation of vehicles with grade 5 emissions in the metropolitan area and the establishment of specific reduction targets.
On the 2nd, the government held the ‘Fourth Special Committee on Fine Dust Countermeasures’ at the Government Complex in Seoul on the 2nd and deliberated and decided on the ‘Second Implementation Plan for Seasonal Management of Fine Dust’. The seasonal fine dust management system was first introduced last year as a system that applies more stringent measures than usual to reduce and manage fine dust emissions from December to March of the following year.
First, the government decided to completely restrict the operation of the metropolitan area to vehicles that do not have an emission reduction device (DPF) attached among fifth-class vehicles in the country. Vehicles registered in areas other than the metropolitan area are also subject to repression. Among around 1.78 million fifth-class vehicles nationwide, there are 1.46 million vehicles that have not undergone low-pollution measures. During the application period of the seasonal management system, a fine of 100,000 won per day is imposed on vehicles with a low pollution level 5 operating in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do and Incheon between 6 am and 9 pm.
It is explained that the purpose of the government is to induce low-emission measures rather than the operational restrictions themselves, so if the low-emission measures are completed by November next year, the fine can be refunded or canceled. In the case of repression in two or more attempts per day, a fine will be imposed only in the first place of detection. Beginning with the third seasonal management system, which will take effect at the end of next year, we are reviewing ways to gradually expand the restrictions on Class 5 vehicles outside the metropolitan area. Along with this, the government will promote regular measures such as early decommissioning of fifth grade vehicles, support for the DPF, and subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles and hydrogen vehicles.
Unlike the first seasonal management system, it also set specific targets, such as a 20% reduction in direct ultrafine dust emissions. To continue the ‘Cheongcheon Plan’, a Korea-China cooperation system concluded in November last year, it plans to focus on exchanges such as meetings with environment ministers.
/ Reporter Jo Ji-won [email protected]
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