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These Instructions of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment aims to ensuring relations, cooperation, coordination between the public-private sectors and community, and implementing each sector's obligation to prevent and control pollution, according to the Environmental Protection Law. These Instructions establish the following objectives: to prevent, control and reduce unavoidable pollution generated from hazardous substances, to reduce the impact in a timely manner in order to meet the Environmental Quality and/or National Pollution Control Standards. The Pollution Control shall be based on the following principles: 1) Focus on prevention and prioritize reduction. The third option is restoration. 2) Ensure law enforcement; 3) Application of technologies and engineering measures. 4) Monitor operations from pollution generating activities in a timely manner; 5) to inspect and assess the impacts of pollution; 6) to compensate when there are negative impacts to the social and ecosystems; 7) Intergrade pollution prevention and control into each period of NSDP; and 8) Awareness raising.; The type of pollution and pollution control methodology are related to the following areas: Air pollution (mostly generated by hazardous substances and pollution to air of each type of activity, such as from industrial facilities, electric facilities using coal, construction, transport, agriculture, mining and urban activities); Soil pollution (mostly generated in land used for facilities or for illegal land use, uncontrolled mining, chemical consumption in electricity and electronic equipment, chemical contamination from agriculture, toxic chemicals, and hazardous waste etc.); Water pollution (mostly generated by the load of bacteria and hazardous chemical contamination from each type of activity's primary source), etc. In addition, it establishes roles and responsibilities of public and private sector citizens to control sources of pollution from soil, water and each type of interference depending on type of business.; These Instructions are divided into seven Chapters as follows: Objectives and principles (Chap. I); Type of pollution and pollution control methodology (Chap. II); Pollution load control (Chap. III); Process of pollution load authorization and license (Chap. IV); Pollution Control Agency (Chap. V); Monitoring and reporting (Chap. VII); and Final Provision (Chap. VII).