It has been more than one year since MEP started to implement the Measures for the Registration of Hazardous Chemicals for Environmental Management (trial) (MEP order 22). Only recently in April, 2014 did the Ministry officially issue the List of Hazardous Chemicals of Priority Environmental Concern, which includes 84 chemical substances. The list is the basis upon which the regulation is implemented. Companies producing or using chemicals in this list will have a series of regulatory obligations to comply with including submitting a risk assessment report and reporting release and transfer data. According to the Measures, companies are required to publically release information on pollutant discharge and transfer data by March every year. The MEP is taking the substantial step of collecting information of chemicals from individual companies in order to better ascertain the chemicals currently circulating in the marketplace.