On August 5, 2022, the All-China Environment Federation Committee of VOCs Emission Control (ACEF-VOCs) released the group standard “Guideline for Comprehensive Evaluation of Volatile Organic Compounds Abatement Effect in Industrial Enterprise” (hereinafter referred to as the Guideline), which came into force immediately.
Considering the specific conditions of industrial enterprises of different scales and different VOCs abatement equipment/technologies, the Guideline specifies general rules, requirements and methods of the VOCs abatement effect evaluation, as well as the reporting contents. In addition to the self-evaluation of industrial enterprises, the Guideline also applies to the official evaluation conducted by the departments of ecology and environment at all levels in China.