Reform and Analysis of the Division of Legal Responsibility between Enterprises and Third-Party Governance under Environmental Pollution

Table 2

Comparison of environmental pollution crime and penalty between “Criminal Law Amendment 8” and “Criminal Law Amendment 11.”

	Legal punishment grade	Maximum sentence	Determination of the circumstances of “fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years”	When competing with other crimes
Criminal Law Amendment VIII	Grade 2 “serious environmental pollution” and “especially serious consequences”	If the consequences are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of up to seven years	The consequences are particularly serious	Nothing
Criminal Law Amendment 11	Grade 3 “serious environmental pollution,” “serious circumstances,” “four felony cases applicable to a prison term of more than seven years”	Under any of the following four circumstances, the maximum term of imprisonment is 15 years	Serious circumstances	Be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions on heavier punishment