The Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan carried out a Registered Professional Environmental Engineer certification case review. The objectives were to understand the quality and defects of certification processed by certified engineers. The review results may be used to guide the improvement of certification of engineers to upgrade the quality of certified Professional Environmental Engineers. Also, Starting in 2006, the EPA carried out the review of the operation of registered professional engineering organizations. The key points focused on work drafts inspection. This year, the review of the operation of registered professional engineering organizations found that the common shortcomings among 5 registered professional engineers was that "the certification files were not declared accurately"and"the original working manuscript did not have execution seal and signature. These cases comprised 29% of the shortcoming showing that the writing of the original working manuscripts needs to improve. In water pollution and stationary pollution source certification cases, the major shortcomings were found in 52% and 30% of cases, respectively. There were no significant improvement, compared against 48% and 20% of shortcomings found in 2007 respectively. But further analyzed an imperfection content, it showed that the differences between the contents review and approval documentations and the site conditions reduced significantly, while error and inconsistency in the approval documentations were incresed. In addition, to effectively control the business of professional engineer certification, this program established the Registered Professional Environmental Engineer basic database. Through an Internet database, information was provided to every level of environmental control management organizations to make available basic information on professional engineers, including their certification status, review results, and award and punishment received, to implement the review and control of professional engineer certifications.

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