해양환경관리법상의 해양환경개선부담금

The marine environmental improvement charges are imposed and levied to (1)the behavior of waste disposal into the ocean that emit waste ,which has remarkable influence on the marine environment or marine ecology; (2) the behavior of the ships or the marine facilities that emit pollutants to the ocean. In this case, the improvement charges are estimated depending on the kinds of pollutants and the amount of emission, and calculated by multiplying the amount of emission by the charge per unit, and then applied to the assigned coefficient of each pollutant. The marine environment improvement charges are introduced to stably secure the fishery development fund, which was established for securing the financial source needed for the marine environment improvement, especially for the preservation of the fishery resource. In principle, Korea is implementing the ban of waste dumping into the ocean. Nevertheless, it is drastically increasing due to the economical reason that the expense of the waste dumping into the ocean is more inexpensive than that of waste disposal into landfill. Considering this situation, the marine environment improvement charges are expected to deter the behavior of waste dumping into the ocean by imposing the financial burden and guide the people's behavior to consistent governmental policy. With this respect, this paper researches the marine environmental improvement charges relating to defining the specific requirements of its imposement, estimating method and charge rate.