대기오염물질총량규제 및 배출권거래제도에 대한 검토 - 수도권대기환경개선에관한특별법과 관련하여 -

Reveiw of the Special Act on the Seoul Metropolitan Air Improvement: the Total Mass emissions Managements and the Tradable Permit ProgramsRhee, V-AnTotal mass emissions managements or the tradable permit programs have not been well known in Korea. Without past experiences of the quantitative management, the tradable permit program will be enforced in the Seoul metropolitan area in July 2007. This article evaluated the tradable permit program which is totally new environmental regulations to Korea in the perspectives of efficiency and equity. In theory, the tradable permit program ensures the environmental goal of the total mass emissions management efficiently. However, as long as local governments make unilateral decisions of initial emissions permits for the quantitative managements, it is not easy to satisfy equity of regulated facilities regardless of whether or not both programs ares used for the quantitative managements. On the other hand, Korea does not provide regulations for trading markets which enable tradable permit program to maximize advantages of the tradable permit programs. Local governments should provide a trading market where facilities can sell purchase emissions permits at any time, keeping the latter's secrets. Banking, in principle, should not be allowed, but partially regulated banking allowed by Special Acts seems to be reasonable. In addition to efficiency of the tradable permit program, issues of how to deal with new or modified sources should be dealt with, since they will affect efficiency of trading markets and are related with equity.