Clean Air Act -- Adopted 2017-07-16 (25/04/1396)

2024-01-25

Editorial note: This is a complete, article-by-article translation of Iran's Clean Air Act, prepared for general informational purposes. Statutory penalty amounts and cross-referenced "degree" fines (under Article 19 of the Islamic Penal Code) change over time through subsequent amendments and inflation adjustments, and this translation should not be relied upon as a substitute for current legal advice from a licensed Iranian attorney. This article should be reviewed by a member of our legal team before publication.

Clean Air Act -- adopted 25/04/1396 (July 16, 2017), with subsequent amendments and additions

Article 1. The terms used in this Act have the following meanings:

Air pollution: the release of one or more pollutants -- whether solid, liquid, or gaseous pollutants, ionizing or non-ionizing radiation, odor, or noise -- into the open air, whether naturally occurring or man-made, in an amount and for a duration that alters air quality in a way that is harmful to human health and living organisms, ecological processes, or structures and monuments, or that destroys or reduces the level of public welfare.
Permissible pollutant-emission limits: the permissible level of pollutant output from sources of air pollution.
Sources of air pollution are as follows:

-- Natural sources: including dust storms, sandstorms, forest and rangeland fires, volcanoes, and sea spray aerosols.

-- Man-made sources, including:

(a) Mobile sources: any source, such as motorized or non-motorized vehicles, that causes pollution as a result of movement.

(b) Stationary sources: any source, such as industries, mining operations, agriculture, service, commercial, administrative, and household sectors, that causes the release of pollutants from a fixed location.
The Organization: for brevity, in this Act the word "Organization" refers to the Department of Environment.
Emergency conditions: circumstances in which, due to continued atmospheric stability (as announced by the Meteorological Organization) or an increase in pollutant concentration (as announced by the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education in cooperation with the Organization), conditions seriously endanger human health and the environment in the short term.

Article 2. All persons, agencies, and institutions, whether governmental or non-governmental, including agencies whose inclusion under this Act requires express mention, and all persons located in free trade-industrial zones, special economic zones, townships, and industrial areas, are required to observe the provisions of this Act. The Organization is responsible for overseeing proper enforcement of this Act.

The technical regulation on controlling and reducing the pollution covered by this Act shall be prepared by the Organization and approved by the Council of Ministers.

Article 3. In emergency conditions, the Organization, in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior and with Council of Ministers approval, must impose temporary prohibitions or restrictions of time, place, and type to prevent harmful effects and to address sources of air pollution, and must immediately inform the public through mass media. Once the emergency conditions are resolved and air pollution has decreased, the Organization shall lift the prohibitions and restrictions imposed and inform the public accordingly.

Note 1: The amount and method of fines, and the suspension of units that disregard the Organization's order, as well as of owners of motor vehicles entering prohibited areas, shall be approved by the Council of Ministers based on a joint proposal of the Organization and the Islamic Republic of Iran Police, and shall be sent to the Islamic Parliament for the necessary legislative action.

Note 2: Under these conditions, all relevant agencies and bodies, within the bounds of legal regulations, are required to cooperate and observe the requirements announced by the Organization. Officials and managers who refuse to comply with this provision shall be subject to Article 576 of the Islamic Penal Code (Book Five -- Ta'zirat).

Note 3: The Organization is required to prepare the executive regulation for managing emergency conditions, and to update it, in cooperation with the Ministries of Health, Treatment and Medical Education; Interior; and Industry, Mining and Trade, as well as the Islamic Republic of Iran Police, and to have it approved by the Council of Ministers within a maximum of six months of this Act's promulgation.

Article 4. The production and import of all types of motor vehicles is subject to compliance with the permissible pollutant-emission limits under this Act, as announced by the Organization. Manufacturing and production standards for permissible fuel-consumption limits, and the import of standard-compliant parts related to combustion or affecting vehicle emissions -- such as exhausts, filters, and catalytic converters -- are determined, controlled, and supervised by Iran's National Standards Organization, and legal action is taken against violators.

Registering license plates for any type of motor vehicle, whether domestically produced or imported, requires compliance with the permissible pollutant-emission limits under this Act and confirmation from the Organization. The Organization is required to prevent the continued production and import of vehicles that do not comply with the permissible emission limits defined under this Act. Pre-selling or selling such motor vehicles is prohibited.

Note: The Organization is required, in cooperation with Iran's National Standards Organization, to raise the permissible pollutant-emission limits to current global standards during the implementation period of the Sixth Five-Year Economic, Social, and Cultural Development Plan of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Article 5. All domestic automakers and importers of foreign vehicles are required to provide their customers' vehicles with a full warranty for at least two full years or forty thousand kilometers, whichever occurs first. All mechanical and electronic parts, equipment, warning devices, and replaceable components belonging to vehicles that are responsible for controlling vehicle pollutant emissions are covered by full warranty during this period, and in case of failure, the cost of correction, repair, adjustment, and replacement of the part shall, as applicable, be borne free of charge by the domestic automaker or the foreign automaker's representative.

Note: In addition to observing the minimum warranty set out in this article, importers and distributors of foreign vehicles are required to extend any additional services and warranties offered by the manufacturer to domestic users.

Article 6. In order to ensure the correct technical and safety performance of vehicles and to control air and noise pollutants, periodic technical inspection of all motor vehicles -- light, medium-heavy, heavy, and motorcycles -- used by governmental, public, and non-governmental sectors is mandatory, to be carried out at regular intervals by centers approved by the Organization.

Note 1: The exemption period for technical inspection, from the date of manufacture, is set at four years for private and government vehicles and one year for public vehicles. The Traffic Police are required, where the owner of a vehicle subject to this article fails, after the exemption period ends or the technical inspection certificate expires, to visit an authorized inspection center and obtain a technical inspection certificate, to impound the vehicle and issue a fine, for each day of operation without the said certificate, in accordance with the Driving Violations Act.

Note 2: Where the operators and staff of authorized technical inspection centers, or the officers and supervisors overseeing their performance, issue a technical inspection certificate in violation of the provisions of this article, they shall be sentenced to the maximum punishment for the offense of issuing a false certificate under Article 540 of the Islamic Penal Code (Book Five -- Ta'zirat and Deterrent Punishments, adopted 23 May 1996, and subsequent amendments).

Note 3: Technical inspection centers that violate the regulations governing establishment, operation, and the tariff for conducting the relevant inspections shall, upon notice from the Organization, the Ministry of Interior, or the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, be sentenced to a sixth-degree fine under Article 19 of the Islamic Penal Code adopted 21 April 2013, and, if the violation is repeated, shall, as applicable, be sentenced to suspension of their operating license for between one month and one year, or permanent revocation of the operating license.

Revenues collected under this article, once deposited into the Treasury, shall be spent, within the framework of the annual budget laws, on organizing, training, and improving oversight of technical inspection centers by the Municipalities and Rural Districts Organization and the Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization.

Note 4: The rate for technical inspection certificate issuance services under this article shall be determined by the Ministries of Interior and of Roads and Urban Development and approved by the Council of Ministers.

Note 5: Issuing technical inspection certificates for rail, air, and maritime vehicles shall be carried out by the relevant executive agency, based on the standards and regulations of the relevant international organizations, and responsibility for controlling and overseeing such certificates rests with the Organization.

Note 6: Vehicle sellers are required, when conducting a transaction, to provide a valid technical inspection certificate.

Article 7. Municipalities, the Islamic Republic of Iran Police, relevant ministries, and organizations are required to design and organize the movement of motor vehicles and the urban transportation system in a manner that, while reducing air pollution, also meets the needs of daily urban travel.

Note: The executive regulation for this article, which shall include permissible hours and zones for urban travel and provisions for the preferred and increased use of public transportation, shall be prepared by the Ministry of Interior, the Islamic Republic of Iran Police, and the Organization within a maximum of three months from the date this Act is promulgated, and approved by the Council of Ministers.

Article 8. All natural and legal persons owning motor vehicles -- light, medium-heavy, heavy, and motorcycles -- are required to retire their vehicles once they reach the age at which they are considered worn-out (farsoodeh), and to insure their liability in this regard with one of the domestic insurance institutions supervised by the Central Insurance Company of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Determining the age at which vehicles are considered worn-out, and the insurance requirements for the various types of motor vehicles covered by this article, shall be set out in a regulation that, based on a joint proposal of the Organization, the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade, Iran's National Standards Organization, and the Central Insurance Company of the Islamic Republic of Iran, shall be approved by the Council of Ministers within a maximum of three months after this Act is promulgated.

Carrying cargo or passengers, issuing a technical inspection certificate, obtaining third-party insurance, buying and selling, transferring, and operating worn-out motor vehicles is prohibited. The Traffic Police of the Islamic Republic of Iran Police shall fine worn-out vehicles for each day of operation, on the basis of unauthorized entry and movement of vehicles in roads, zones, and areas where such operation has been declared prohibited.

Note 1: The Government is required to use the savings achieved through improved fuel management resulting from the implementation of this Act to provide the mechanisms and facilities necessary to replace worn-out public transportation vehicles with new vehicles.

Note 2: The Government is required to allocate a line item in the annual budget for granting low-cost financing, at a four percent (4%) fee with a ten-year repayment period, to replace existing worn-out vehicles and motorcycles, and to have this approved by the Islamic Parliament.

Article 9. The Ministry of Interior is required, in cooperation with the Ministries of Industry, Mining and Trade and of Economic Affairs and Finance (the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration), to renew the urban public transportation fleet -- prioritizing cities with a population over two hundred thousand -- within five years, using the revenue sources under Article 6 of this Act, through grants, subsidies, financing, or eliminating the commercial profit margin on the import of gasoline-electric (hybrid) vehicles, electric vehicles, and electric motorcycles.

Note: Domestically produced gasoline-electric, electric motorcycles, and electric vehicles are exempt from value-added tax.

Article 10. The Ministry of Interior is required, using general municipal revenues and its own general budget under the budget law (each at fifty percent), to increase the intra-city public transportation fleet by five percent (5%) annually, prioritizing metropolitan areas and cities with a population over five hundred thousand.

Article 11. Any construction, expansion, change of production line, or relocation of production, industrial, and mining units is subject to compliance with the regulations issued by the Organization. The Organization is required to respond to inquiries requesting establishment and operating permits within a maximum of one month, and, in the event of a refusal, to provide the reasons for it to the inquirer in writing. Failure to respond within the stated period shall be treated as approval.

A commission shall be formed in each province, comprising one of the Governor's deputies designated by the Governor (chair), the Director General of the provincial Department of Environment (secretary), the Director General of the provincial Standards and Industrial Research office, the Director General of the provincial Industry, Mining and Trade office, the head of the provincial Agricultural Jihad Organization, the Director General of the provincial Inspection Organization, and the relevant county governor (farmandar).

If the applicant objects, the above provincial authority shall review the dispute within a maximum of one month and, if the activity is found not to be a polluting one (based on the laws and directives issued by the Organization), shall issue the appropriate permit; otherwise, it shall reject the request. The commission's secretariat is located at the Department of Environment's General Office in each province.

Note 1: The commission is required to base its opinions on matters under this article -- including the boundary, buffer zone, and distance from cities and villages -- solely on the basis of their polluting effect.

Note 2: Violators of the decisions and resolutions of the Organization and the commission (where reviewed by the commission) are required, in addition to paying a pollution-remediation fine, to compensate for the damage caused.

If the damage is not compensated, or the decisions of the Organization or the commission are disregarded, the matter shall be referred back to the commission, and, upon the commission's approval, the activity shall be suspended and the violator referred, on the complaint of the relevant Department of Environment's General Office, to the judicial authority, which shall, upon issuing its judgment, sentence the violator to a fourth-degree fine under Article 19 of the Islamic Penal Code adopted 21 April 2013.

Note 3: Large and medium-sized units and projects, whether currently operating or new, that are subject to environmental assessment under applicable laws and regulations, are required to install and operate real-time online monitoring systems and to transmit up-to-date data to the Organization's monitoring center. Issuance and renewal of their operating licenses is contingent on compliance with this note.

Note 4: All centers and industrial and production units, as determined by the Organization, are required to undertake air-pollution sampling and measurement, within a feasible time frame and within the framework of self-declaration, as part of monitoring.

Article 12. The Organization is required to identify all industrial, production, mining, service, public, and workshop centers and units whose pollution exceeds the approved permissible limit, and to notify the owners, officials, managing directors, or the highest-ranking decision-maker of the unit -- specifying the type and extent of the pollution, the size of the affected area, and the area's sensitivity -- so that, within a deadline set by the Organization, they may remedy the pollution, change production, change the production process, or shut down their work and activity (depending on the type of pollution and the nature of the relevant control process). During the period in which the status of these units is being determined, a fine for creating and releasing pollution shall, under the provisions of this Act, be imposed on the said units.

Note 1: The decision on the complete shutdown of the work and activity of factories, large mines, and major polluting units that have national and regional impacts rests with a headquarters made up of the Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade, the head of the Organization, the Governor, and the highest-ranking official of the relevant agency.

Note 2: If the provisions of this article are not implemented by the end of the set deadline, the Organization shall prevent the unit from continuing its activity and shall refer the violator, under the provisions of this Act, to the competent judicial authority for prosecution. In addition to compensating for the damage caused, the production unit shall be sentenced to pay a cash fine equal to three to five times the damage caused to the environment.

The punishment set out in this note also applies to owners, officials, and managers of factories, units, and production workshops, oil and gas industries, power plants, and other polluting production, service, and mining units that, after being shut down, independently and without obtaining the Organization's permission, reopen and continue their activity.

Note 3: The permissible air-pollutant emission limits shall be proposed by the Organization and approved by the Council of Ministers.

Article 13. Within a maximum of one year after this Act takes effect, all industrial, production, mining, service, public, and workshop centers, whether governmental or non-governmental, are required to use the approved standard fuel. If suitable fuel is not available, the said units are required to take whatever measures are necessary to ensure that the pollutants released remain within the permissible air-pollutant emission limits.

Article 14. Where, in the Organization's determination, reducing or eliminating pollution caused by industrial, production, mining, service, public, and workshop centers is only possible by relocating all or part of their production lines, facilities, or premises to suitable locations, or where the activity of these centers in residential areas endangers the health of residents of those areas, the owners and managers of the unit are required, within the deadline set out in the relocation plan, to proceed with relocating the relevant unit. A party that fails to comply with this article shall be sentenced to pay a cash fine equal to three percent (3%) of that unit's annual gross revenue.

Note: The location, timing, deadline, and necessary funding sources, facilities, and incentives for relocating the aforementioned units shall be set out in a regulation that, on the Organization's proposal and in cooperation with the relevant ministries, shall be prepared within a maximum of three months from the date this Act is promulgated and approved by the Council of Ministers.

Article 15. Newly established townships, centers, and industrial and production units are required, depending on climate, to allocate at least ten percent (10%) of the space allotted for the construction of the relevant unit to creating forested green space and planting trees suitable for the region. Operation of these units is contingent on compliance with this article and the Organization's confirmation of compliance.

Article 16. Persons who obstruct inspections by the Organization's officers for the purpose of sampling and determining the level of pollution resulting from the activity of industrial, production, mining, service, public, and workshop centers, or who fail to provide the documents, records, and information required by the Organization, or who provide false documents, records, and information, shall be sentenced to at least a seventh-degree fine, and, if repeated, to at least a fourth-degree fine, under Article 19 of the Islamic Penal Code.

Note 1: All medium-sized centers and units with fifty or more employees that are subject to this Act are required to establish a Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) unit and to employ an environmental specialist for sampling, measurement, monitoring, and continuous control of air pollution.

Note 2: Accredited and cooperating laboratories that submit a false report shall also be sentenced to a sixth-degree fine under Article 19 of the Islamic Penal Code, and, if repeated, shall have their accreditation suspended or revoked.

Note 3: The Organization's inspection of classified facilities shall be governed by a regulation that, on a joint proposal of the Organization, the Ministries of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, and Intelligence, and the Atomic Energy Organization, shall be prepared within a maximum of three months from the date this Act is promulgated and approved by the Council of Ministers.

Article 17. All operators of stationary sources of air pollution are required to observe the permissible pollutant-emission limits in their boiler rooms and combustion systems. These centers are also required, while taking the necessary measures to prevent the release of pollutants into the open air, to use suitable fuel (preferably city gas), and are required to have an annual technical inspection of their boiler-room systems and combustion systems carried out by companies accredited by Iran's National Standards Organization, in accordance with the permissible pollutant-emission limits.

Note 1: Owners, officials, or heads of administrative, health, medical, service, public, and commercial centers that cause air pollution shall, if, after receiving one written warning from the Organization, they fail to take action to remedy the pollution within the set deadline, be sentenced, as applicable, to an eighth-degree fine under Article 19 of the Islamic Penal Code, and, if repeated, in addition to the maximum fine, shall, upon the Organization's request and the judgment of the competent judicial authority, be sentenced to a temporary shutdown of between six months and two years.

Note 2: Household pollution sources in metropolitan areas with a population over five hundred thousand shall be subject only to a cash fine.

Note 3: The executive regulation for this article -- including incentive-based methods in the first stage followed by mandatory methods, the manner of overseeing its implementation, and the costs of inspections at the periodic inspection centers covered by this article -- shall be prepared by the Organization, in cooperation with the Ministries of Petroleum, Interior, Roads and Urban Development, and Health, Treatment and Medical Education, and Iran's National Standards Organization, within three months from the date this Act is promulgated, and approved by the Council of Ministers.

Article 18. The Ministry of Petroleum is required, within a maximum of three years after this Act takes effect, to supply domestically produced fuel -- including gasoline, gas oil, fuel oil, and kerosene -- in accordance with the approved national standard. The Organization is required to prevent the production of non-standard fuel.

After the deadline set out in this Act, Iran's National Standards Organization is required to prevent the import of fuel that does not meet the national standard. The Ministry of Petroleum, Iran's National Standards Organization, and the Organization are required to publish a performance report on this article every six months.

Article 19. The Ministry of Energy is required to develop, produce, and supply renewable and clean energy in a manner that ensures that at least thirty percent (30%) of the country's annual increase in required electricity capacity is supplied from renewable energy sources.

Article 20. Stockpiling hospital and industrial waste in public roads and open spaces, or burning it, and stockpiling household and construction waste in public roads and open spaces outside the locations designated by municipalities and rural district administrations, or burning it, as well as burning plant residue on agricultural land after harvest, is prohibited, and a violator shall, as applicable, be sentenced to a sixth-degree fine under Article 19 of the Islamic Penal Code.

The Ministry of Agricultural Jihad is required to inform operators in the agricultural, nomadic, and natural-resources sectors of the provisions of this article through appropriate means.

Note 1: The definitions of waste set out in this article are governed by the Waste Management Act adopted 10 May 2004.

Note 2: The Government and municipalities are required, within three years after this Act is promulgated, to create, with the assistance of the private sector, the conditions for converting this waste into energy or fertilizer for various cities.

Note 3: In exceptional cases where burning plants or plant residue is the only way to dispose of pests, diseases, and plant contamination, action shall be taken in accordance with conditions formulated and announced by the Ministry of Agricultural Jihad with the Organization's confirmation.

Article 21. The Ministry of Roads and Urban Development is required, when preparing comprehensive and detailed plans for cities, townships, and new cities, and guide plans for rural areas or the development of these areas, to plan in such a way that a separate chapter of the plan's studies is devoted to examining environmental issues, and that the design of cities, townships, and residential complexes -- in terms of green space and open space, the compatibility of adjacent land uses and observance of legal buffer zones, the road and transportation network, building-density regulations -- is suited to climate conditions, environmental criteria approved by the Organization, and the regulations, conditions, and health-impact standards approved by the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education.

Article 22. Within a maximum of ten years after this Act is promulgated, municipalities of cities with a population over fifty thousand are required, in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and county natural-resources offices, to bring their per-capita green space up to at least fifteen square meters. Production and supply of the necessary saplings (low-water-need, hardy, native species) is the responsibility of the natural-resources offices, and planting, maintenance, and operation is the responsibility of the municipalities. The Ministry of Energy is required to supply the necessary water resources from the treated wastewater of the relevant city, conditional on the municipality's use of modern irrigation methods.

The executive regulation for this article shall be prepared by the Ministry of Interior, in cooperation with the Ministries of Energy, Agricultural Jihad, and Roads and Urban Development, and the Organization, within six months from the date this Act is promulgated, and approved by the Council of Ministers.

Article 23. The Government is required, in compliance with Article 77 of the Constitution, to take the necessary action -- in coordination and cooperation with relevant international bodies and with the participation of affected and contributing countries in the region -- to create regional and international cooperation aimed at preventing dust events and reducing the damage and destructive consequences thereof at the national and regional level.

Article 24. The Ministry of Agricultural Jihad (Forests, Rangelands and Watershed Management Organization) is required, in addition to implementing the prescribed desertification-control projects, to take action against at least three hundred thousand hectares annually to combat the dust phenomenon -- with priority given to desertification-control operations in critical areas, hotspots, and sensitive ecosystems -- in order to control areas prone to desertification and dust production within the country, whether directly or with the participation of the public, local executive agencies, and international organizations, in compliance with Article 77 of the Constitution, and domestic non-governmental organizations. The Government is required to allocate the necessary funding for implementing the operations under this article in the annual budgets each year.

Article 25. The Organization is required, in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy, to determine the environmental water requirements of rivers, wetlands, estuaries, lakes, and ecosystems, and the Ministry of Energy shall, depending on conditions of wet years, normal years, and drought, annually allocate the water rights for the above items.

Article 26. The Ministry of Roads and Urban Development (the Meteorological Organization of the Country), in cooperation with the Organization, is required to complete the national warning and early-warning network for flood, storm, and dust events within a maximum of two years after this Act is promulgated.

Article 27. The Ministries of Agricultural Jihad (Forests, Rangelands and Watershed Management Organization), Roads and Urban Development, and Interior, using the funds set out in the budget line items, and municipalities and rural district administrations, using financial resources at their disposal -- including duties and public funds -- over five years, subject to the Organization's confirmation, are required to create green buffer zones around highways and green belts around cities and villages affected by dust events, using modern irrigation methods and prioritizing the use of urban and rural treated wastewater.

Note 1: The Ministry of Energy is required to supply and allocate the necessary water resources from the surplus water resulting from converting traditional irrigation methods to modern irrigation methods in the areas covered by this article, and, in case of a resource shortfall, to provide the necessary allocation from produced wastewater or other sources.

Note 2: The Ministry of Interior (Municipalities and Rural Districts Organization) is required to allocate at least twenty percent (20%) of its available resources to developing the green belt under this article and to pay it to municipalities and rural district administrations.

Article 28. The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Organization and other state media are required to broadcast, as advertising or educational media programs at fifty percent (50%) of the cost, programs approved by the Organization on raising awareness of and combating air pollution and dust events, provided that media regulations are observed in such programs, in the area of culture-building, capacity-building, education, and information dissemination. The method of compensating the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Organization and other state media for this cost shall be set out in the annual budget.

Article 29. Creating any form of noise pollution from stationary and mobile sources is prohibited. In the case of stationary sources, the offender shall be sentenced to a seventh-degree fine under Article 19 of the Islamic Penal Code.

Note 1 (amended 23 May 2024): The Police are required to require the driver of a motor vehicle, for a first offense, to pay a cash fine equal to two million (2,000,000) rials; for a second offense, to pay double the said fine; and, if the offense is repeated more than twice, to pay a cash fine equal to six million (6,000,000) rials.

Note 2: The executive regulation for this article shall be prepared by the Organization, in cooperation with the relevant agencies, within a maximum of three months from the date this Act is promulgated, and approved by the Council of Ministers.

Article 30. The Organization is required, in cooperation with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, to prevent the release, beyond the determined limits, of all radio waves, electromagnetic waves, and ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, and, in order to ensure that the level and intensity of ionizing and non-ionizing waves and radiation in the open air does not exceed the determined limits, to establish the relevant monitoring network.

Natural and legal persons who fail to observe the determined limits on the emission of the waves and radiation covered by this article shall, for a first offense, be sentenced to a fifth-degree fine under Article 19 of the Islamic Penal Code, and, if repeated, in addition to the maximum fine, shall be sentenced to confiscation of the related property and equipment.

Note: The determined limits on the emission of the waves and radiation covered by this article shall be formulated by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, in joint cooperation with the Organization, the Ministries of Information and Communications Technology and of Health, Treatment and Medical Education, and Iran's National Standards Organization, in compliance with Article 22 of the Radiation Protection Act adopted in 1989, within six months from the date this Act is promulgated, and approved by the Council of Ministers.

Article 31. The Islamic Republic of Iran Police and the Organization's Protection Unit are required, acting as judicial officers, to take the necessary action -- within the framework of laws and regulations -- against polluting units or relevant natural or legal persons, in cases of flagrant offenses under this Act, either on their own initiative or upon notification from the Organization, or, upon becoming aware of non-flagrant offenses under this Act, with the opinion of the relevant county's prosecutor.

Article 32. To handle violations and offenses under this Act, a specialized branch shall be designated in each judicial district, as determined by the Head of the Judiciary.

Note 1: Those employees of the Organization who have completed the training course for judicial officers under the supervision of the relevant prosecutor shall be designated as judicial officers for the purpose of implementing the provisions of this Act.

Note 2: The Ministry of Agricultural Jihad (Forests, Rangelands and Watershed Management Organization) and the Organization are exempt from paying any litigation costs in civil and criminal lawsuits arising from the activities, duties, and legal obligations related to this Act.

Article 33. One hundred percent (100%) of the revenue generated from the implementation of this Act shall be deposited into the account of the State Treasury, to be spent solely, within the framework of the annual budget, on the obligations under this Act and on addressing sources of air pollution. Twenty percent (20%) of the said funds shall be allocated, through the National Environment Fund (a public non-governmental institution), to providing financing to sources of air pollution for the purpose of remedying and reducing air pollution.

Adjustment of the amount of the fines for environmental damage set out in this Act shall be prepared every two years by the Organization, in cooperation with the relevant agencies, and approved by the Islamic Parliament in the budget bill.

Article 34. As of the date this Act takes effect, the Air Pollution Prevention Act adopted 23 April 1995 and its subsequent amendments and additions, the legislative decision regarding the Air Pollution Prevention Regulation adopted 20 July 1975 by the Joint Parliamentary Commissions, the Act Authorizing the Establishment of the Institute of Standards of Iran adopted 23 May 1960, the Act on Supplementary Provisions to the Act Establishing the Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran adopted 15 December 1970, and the Charter of the Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran adopted 30 June 1965 are repealed, and the following amendments shall apply:

(a) The following text is added to the end of clause (20) of the Municipalities Act adopted 1 July 1955 by the Joint Parliamentary Commissions: "This clause shall be implemented in compliance with the Clean Air Act."

(b) In Note 1 of Article 2 of the Automobile Consumer Protection Act adopted 13 June 2007, the phrase "one year" is amended to "two years," and "thirty thousand kilometers" is amended to "forty thousand kilometers."

(c) In Article 9 of the Driving Violations Act adopted 27 February 2011, the phrase "more than five years" is amended to "four years for private and government vehicles and one year for public vehicles."

(d) The word "Institute" in the title and text of the following Acts shall be amended to "Organization":

The Act on Iran Standards Institute Membership in the International Organization for Standardization, adopted 11 November 1964.
The Act Authorizing the Membership of the Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran in the World Federation of Industrial and Technical Research Organizations and the European Committee on Concrete, and the Membership of the Soil Mechanics Technical Laboratory in the said Committee, adopted 20 June 1977.
(repealed 3 October 2017) -- The Act Amending the Laws and Regulations of the Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran, adopted 14 February 1993, and its amendments adopted 3 June 1997 and 21 April 2006.

The foregoing Act, consisting of thirty-four articles and thirty-nine notes, was adopted at the public session of the Islamic Parliament on Sunday, 16 July 2017, and was confirmed by the Guardian Council on 2 August 2017.

Speaker of the Islamic Parliament -- Ali Larijani