A 05/06-10

Legislative Council

Legislative Council
Agenda

Wednesday 7 December 2005 at 11:00 am

I. Tabling of Papers
Subsidiary Legislation / InstrumentsL.N. No.
1.Registered Designs Ordinance (Amendment of Schedule) Regulation 2005215/2005
2.Trade Marks Ordinance (Amendment of Schedule 1) Regulation 2005216/2005
3.Patents Ordinance (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2005217/2005
4.Layout-Design (Topography) of Integrated Circuits (Designation of Qualifying Countries, Territories or Areas) (Amendment) Regulation 2005218/2005
5.Designation of Libraries (No. 2) Order 2005219/2005
6.Tax Reserve Certificates (Rate of Interest) (No. 9) Notice 2005220/2005

Other Papers

1.No.36-Emergency Relief Fund Trustee's Report on the Fund and Audited Statement of Accounts and Director of Audit's Report for the year ended 31 March 2005
(to be presented by Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food)

2.No.37-Annual Report of The Prince Philip Dental Hospital by its Board of Governors, and Audited Statement of Accounts and Auditor's Report for the Hospital, for the period from 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005
(to be presented by Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food)

II. Questions

1. Dr Hon Joseph LEE Kok-long to ask: (Translation)

It has been reported that in a recent sample test on plastic disposable tableware conducted by the State General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, about half of the samples were found to contain excessive amount of recycled plastic that would release toxic and carcinogenic chemicals when coming into contact with hot, fatty or acidic substances. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the places of origin of the plastic disposable tableware used in Hong Kong, together with their respective market shares;

    (b)of the details and specific results of the chemical tests conducted on the 30 collected samples of plastic disposable food containers by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in the past three years, and whether it plans to conduct more sample tests; and

    (c)whether it will introduce legislation to stipulate that the package labels of plastic disposable tableware products shall include information about the raw materials used as well as the heat and acid resistance of the products, so that the catering sector and consumers can make informed choices?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food

2. Hon CHAN Kam-lam to ask: (Translation)

A local consortium sold part of its interest in the local container terminal business to the Port of Singapore Authority in July this year, and invested more than HK$10 billion last month in expanding the container terminals at Yantian port in Shenzhen. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)whether it has contacted the consortium to find out the reasons for its divestment of the local container terminal business;

    (b)whether it has assessed the impacts of the northerly relocation of business by Hong Kong businessmen on the economic outlook of Hong Kong; if it has, of the outcome of the assessment; and

    (c)of the measures to maintain the competitiveness of Hong Kong's port business?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Economic Development and Labour

3. Dr Hon KWOK Ka-ki to ask: (Translation)

Some front line doctors of the Hospital Authority ("HA") have reflected to me that HA is considering restructuring the services of public hospitals in Hong Kong. This has upset its staff and affected their morale. Regarding the services provided by public hospitals, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)whether HA is restructuring the various services of public hospitals, including accident and emergency services; if so, of the reasons for the restructuring; the services that need to be restructured due to under- or over-utilization; and the arrangements being made at present, findings of the reviews conducted and the relevant data in relation to the restructuring of services;

    (b)of the utilization rate of the main services of various public hospitals in Hong Kong over the past three years, broken down by disease; and

    (c)of the resources that had been cut by HA during the past three years for Ruttonjee Hospital, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital and other hospitals in relation to hospital services, staffing and funding, etc; and whether HA has assessed the impact of the reductions on clinical services?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food

4. Hon LI Kwok-ying to ask: (Translation)

The Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization will be held in Hong Kong next week. In the light of the fact that when the conference was held in various places in the world previously, demonstrations, violence, or even terrorist attacks occurred, resulting in hundreds of people being injured, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the contingency measures to be taken by various public hospitals, together with details of the special arrangements for accident and emergency, specialty, surgery and in-patient services;

    (b)of the likely impact on the surgery and in-patient services at various public hospitals, and the measures to minimize such impact; and

    (c)whether it will cooperate with various paramedic organizations, private hospitals and international rescue organizations to cope with a possible situation where a large number of injured people need medical treatment; if so, of the details?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food

5. Hon Frederick FUNG to ask: (Translation)

Regarding public consultations and opinion polls, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)whether policy bureaux and departments are required to follow uniform guidelines and standards which specify the circumstances where public consultations and opinion polls are to be conducted, and how to ensure the independence and impartiality of the processes and conclusions of these consultations and polls; if so, of the details of the guidelines and standards; if not; the reasons for that; and the mechanism in place to ensure that the contents of the questionnaires designed by policy bureaux and departments are impartial and non-leading;

    (b)of the circumstances in which the authorities will consider commissioning non-governmental organizations to conduct opinion polls; how the responsibilities for opinion polls are divided between the authorities and the organizations concerned, including whether the contents of the questionnaires are designed by these organizations, and whether conclusions of the polls are drawn by them independently; if so, how the authorities ensure that the organizations concerned will not have a bias in favour of the Government's intention when designing the questionnaires, or draw conclusions of the polls in favour of the Government's wish, in an attempt to win future awards from the Government to conduct opinion polls; if not, how the authorities ensure the independence and impartiality of the polls; and

    (c)whether the authorities will, in their future publication of the results of the opinion polls conducted by the Government itself or non-governmental organizations commissioned by the Government, ensure no selective release of those parts which are to their advantage and, at the same time, make public all relevant information about the polls including the methodology used for the polls, names of the organizations commissioned, full text of the questionnaires and their designers, the dates at which the polls are conducted, sampling methods, sample sizes, response rates and error ranges, etc, to facilitate monitoring by the public; if not, the reasons for that?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Home Affairs

6. Hon LAU Kong-wah to ask: (Translation)

Regarding the enhancement of the safety of public light bus ("PLB") operations, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)given that some liquefied petroleum gas ("LPG") PLBs are not provided with the relevant type approval certificates from the car manufacturers, resulting in the PLB owners concerned not being able to install specifications-compliant seat belts on their vehicles, of the percentage of such PLBs in all LPG PLBs in Hong Kong;

    (b)whether it will explore the ways to help the owners concerned to obtain the required information from the car manufacturers, so that they can install the seat belts on their PLBs as soon as possible; and

    (c)whether it will consider assisting the owners of all PLBs in Hong Kong in installing seat belts on their PLBs, and enhancing publicity and education on the requirement that passengers on PLBs must wear seat belts?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works

*7. Hon SIN Chung-kai to ask: (Translation)

The United States, Canada, Australia and some European countries have opened up the frequency band between 26.96 - 27.41 MHz (known as the Citizen Band) for short-range two-way radio communications of the general public. Their respective spectrum management authorities have designated Channel 9 for emergency communications and deploy staff to constantly monitor the contents of the communications to ensure that rescue agencies can provide immediate rescue services. As the Administration is planning to open up the Citizen Band and designate Channel 9 solely for emergency communications, such as those of the picnickers in distress, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)whether it will, by drawing reference from the practices of the above countries, deploy staff to monitor Channel 9 constantly; if it will, of the details, including the department responsible for the monitoring; if not, the reasons for that;

    (b)whether it will install antennae in remote areas and along popular hiking trails to ensure that the monitoring staff will have clear reception of distress signals; if it will, of the locations where antennae will be installed, as well as the scheduled completion dates of the installation works; and

    (c)how it will impart to the public, especially the picnickers, that Channel 9 is solely for emergency communications and the proper use of the channel, such as whether it will collaborate with non-governmental organizations, and of the timeframe of such efforts?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology

*8. Hon CHEUNG Man-kwong to ask: (Translation)

Regarding the issue of the naming of local institutions of higher education ("institutions") as university, in particular the Hong Kong Institute of Education ("HKIEd"), will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the conditions, procedures and laws that the institutions must comply with before they are granted self-accreditation for the degree programmes they offer ("self-accreditation") and can be named as university;

    (b)of the organization which deals with applications from institutions for being named as university and the membership of the organization; whether institutions, which do not accept the decision on their applications or dispute their applications with the organization, have the opportunity to express their grievances; if so, of the procedure involved; if not, how it ensures that their applications are dealt with fairly and equitably;

    (c)whether the institutions that have been granted self-accreditation have to take the initiative to apply or have to be invited by the Government or the University Grants Committee for being named as university, and the details of the process involved;

    (d)whether HKIEd, which has been granted self-accreditation, meets the requirements to be named as university; if so, of the timetable and procedures for it to be so named; if not, the conditions, procedures and laws that HKIEd has to comply with before being named as university, and whether the relevant conditions are different from those required of other universities in their naming processes;

    (e)of the time gaps between granting self-accreditation to local universities and their being named as university; whether there are any institutions which have not been named as university after being granted self-accreditation; if so, of the names of such institutions and the reasons for their not being named as university, and whether they know the reasons to enable them to conduct reviews; and

    (f)regarding universities and other institutions, which have been granted self-accreditation, whether there are legal requirements governing the provision of courses, award of degrees, academic status, remunerations for their staff and application for government funds; if so, whether the requirements applicable to these universities are different from those applicable to these institutions; if they are different, of the details; and whether the authorities will need to allocate additional funds to HKIEd as a result of its being named as university?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Education and Manpower

*9. Hon WONG Kwok-hing to ask: (Translation)

Under the existing legislation, certain types of machines (such as bulldozers and loaders) used on construction sites may be operated only by persons who have attended a relevant recognized training course and have been awarded a valid certificate by the course provider. I have received a number of complaints that the relevant courses and tests for construction workers are only conducted in the daytime, which affects their livelihood. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the current number of holders of the qualifying certificates, together with the names of the recognized course providers, for each type of machines;

    (b)of the respective numbers of qualifying certificates for each type of machines which will expire in the current year and each of the next two years;

    (c)of the criteria adopted for accrediting the course providers; and

    (d)whether it will review the current certification system, including shortening the duration of the courses, increasing the number of course providers and reducing the course fees?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Economic Development and Labour

*10. Hon Albert HO to ask: (Translation)

Regarding the medical services provided by the Hospital Authority through the various hospital clusters, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the current populations served by individual hospital clusters, their respective numbers of general beds, doctors and nurses per 1 000 persons, as well as the amount of provisions for each cluster;

    (b)of the reasons for the cluster, which currently has the smallest numbers of beds and medical and nursing staff per 1 000 persons as well as the smallest amount of provisions, being given fewer resources than other clusters, and the number of additional medical and nursing staff and the amount of additional resources required for upgrading the services provided by this cluster to the average standard of individual clusters; and

    (c)whether it plans to improve the services provided by the hospital cluster which is most short of resources and to extend the hospitals in that cluster; if so, of the details of the plan; if not, the reasons for that?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food

*11. Ir Dr Hon HO Chung-tai to ask: (Translation)

It has been reported that recently a series of traffic accidents were caused allegedly by the dangerous driving of public light bus ("PLB") drivers and some PLB passengers not wearing the seat belt as required by the law were killed. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council of:
    (a)the number of prosecutions instituted against PLB passengers not complying with the legal requirement to wear seat belts since the law came into operation in August last year;

    (b)the total number of traffic accidents involving PLBs (including both green minibuses and red minibuses) and the casualties in the past three years, and whether there is an upward trend; and

    (c)the total number of traffic accidents in the past three years involving PLBs crossing double white lines, speeding and jumping red lights?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works

*12. Hon Audrey EU to ask: (Translation)

On the 7th of last month, the Government announced that it had decided to grant Heung Yee Kuk ("HYK") a piece of land in Shatin, the area of which is about 4 240 square metres, by way of a Private Treaty Grant ("PTG") at a nominal premium of $1,000 for HYK to construct its new premises. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)whether it had considered the financial position of HYK before making the decision to grant the land; if it had, of the details; if not, the reasons for that;

    (b)whether HYK has to return the existing site of its premises to the Government upon relocation to the new premises; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that; and

    (c)of the details of the cases in which the Lands Department granted land to non-profit-making organizations by way of PTG at nominal premium over the past five years, including the names of the grantees, the sizes and locations of the lots, the premiums, the land use and the years in which the leases will expire?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Home Affairs

*13. Hon KWONG Chi-kin to ask: (Translation)

Will the Government inform this Council of the following data between 1997 and 2004:
    (a)the number of employed persons for the groups aged between 40 to 49 and 50 to 59, broken down by industry, occupation and education level (i.e. Form 3 or below, Form 4 to Form 7, tertiary education or above); and

    (b)the number of unemployed persons in the above age groups, broken down by the industry in which they were previously employed?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Economic Development and Labour

*14. Hon MA Lik to ask: (Translation)

Starting from the 2000-01 school year, public-funded primary and secondary schools may apply for the Capacity Enhancement Grant ("CEG") to procure outside services or employ temporary staff on top of their normal establishment, in order to relieve the workload of their teachers so that they may have more capacity to concentrate on performing the following three major tasks: curriculum development, enhancing students' language proficiency, and coping with the diverse and special learning needs of students. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the respective amounts and percentages of CEG spent on the above three tasks in each of the past three school years;

    (b)of the amount and percentage of CEG spent on employing staff in each of the past three school years, and the total number of such staff, together with a breakdown of the number by the nature of their duties; and

    (c)whether it has assessed the effectiveness of providing CEG to schools in relieving the teachers' workload; if it has, of the outcome of the assessment?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Education and Manpower

*15. Hon CHEUNG Hok-ming to ask: (Translation)

In late June this year, as long as an applicant for triggering of land for auction or tender offers, in respect of a certain site, a price which is not lower than 80% of the open market value of that site as assessed by the Administration, the authorities will accept the application concerned. Since the implementation of the measure, only a few applications for triggering sites have been received, with no application received in September and October at all. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council whether:
    (a)it has assessed the reasons for the lukewarm response; if it has, of the results of the assessment, and the improvement measures it will take; and

    (b)it will consider resuming scheduled land auctions to ensure that the target on revenue from land sale will be met?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands

*16. Hon LEE Wing-tat to ask: (Translation)

Since the publication of the Fifth Report of the Constitutional Development Task Force, the officials concerned have attended press conferences, radio programmes as well as meetings of the Legislative Council and District Councils in recent days to explain the contents of the Report. Regarding the Government's efforts in explaining to the public the contents of the Report and collecting their views, will the Government inform this Council whether:
    (a)an independent opinion poll will be conducted on the recommendations contained in the Report; if so, when it will be conducted; if not, the reasons for that;

    (b)residents' meetings will be organized in the 18 administrative districts in the territory for the officials concerned to explain the contents of the Report and collect residents' views; if not, whether they will attend forums or residents' meetings organized by community organizations in various districts to collect residents' views; and

    (c)it will conduct an opinion poll and public consultation on the public demand for a timetable on universal suffrage so as to ascertain what timetable will be acceptable to the public, in order that the aspirations of Hong Kong people for a timetable on universal suffrage can be reflected to the Central Government?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Constitutional Affairs

*17. Hon TAM Heung-man to ask: (Translation)

Regarding the reprovisioning of the Central Government Offices, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the total number of parking spaces for government vehicles and vehicles for personal use of civil servants at the existing Central Government Offices, and the areas and locations of the respective car parks;

    (b)of the daily numbers of government vehicles and vehicles for personal use of civil servants which are not allocated parking spaces at the Central Government Offices and which enter and exit these offices and the passengers carried; and

    (c)among those mentioned in items (a) and (b), the numbers of vehicles that will be allocated parking spaces at the new Central Government Offices on the Tamar site, as well as the percentage of such numbers in the total number of parking spaces at the new Central Government Offices?
Public Officer to reply : Chief Secretary for Administration

*18. Hon Fred LI to ask: (Translation)

Since the increase of the fixed penalty for public cleanliness offences to $1,500 in late June 2003, the seven enforcement departments issued around 55 100 fixed penalty notices ("FPNs") up to end-August 2005. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the annual number of FPNs issued respectively by these enforcement departments during the above period;

    (b)of the number of cases of non-payment of fines demanded by the FPNs issued, broken down by reasons of non-payment; and

    (c)whether it has reviewed annually the position in enforcing the legislation on public cleanliness offences by various government departments; if so, of the major difficulties encountered in their enforcement actions and the solutions; if not, the reasons for that?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food

*19. Hon Andrew CHENG to ask: (Translation)

Regarding the patronage of franchised buses, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the respective current average daily total patronage on the bus routes whose fares are $9.9 or below, between $10 and $14.9, and $15 or above;

    (b)of the bus routes on which fare concessions are offered to passengers who take the same route (or route of the same group) for the return trip on the same day and prepay the return trip fare with Octopus cards on the forward trip, the details of such concessions, the current average daily total patronage on such routes and the total number of trips taken by passengers who take advantage of such concessions;

    (c)of the bus routes on which concessions on the return trip fare are offered, without the requirement of its prepayment on the forward trip, to passengers who take the same route (or route of the same group) for the return trip on the same day, the details of such concessions, the current average daily total patronage on such routes and the total number of trips taken by passengers who take advantage of such concessions; and

    (d)given that some franchised bus companies had offered a one-dollar flat fare concession for the elderly on holidays and terminated this concession on 1 June this year, of the respective average daily total patronage on these routes by elderly passengers on holidays during the three-month periods immediately before and after the termination of the concession?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works

*20. Hon Albert CHAN to ask: (Translation)

It has been reported that while the South Korean authorities had banned the import of live eels and eel products from China since 26 July this year after test results showed the presence of malachite green in such food products, the Hong Kong Government took no immediate action either to ban the import of eel products from the Mainland or conduct relevant tests. It was only on the day after 16 August when the Guangdong provincial authorities recalled eel products for export that the Government advised the public not to consume eels for the time being, but it still did not ban the import of eel products. However, the Government gazetted the Harmful Substances in Food (Amendment) Regulation 2005 on 26 August, prohibiting the sale of food containing malachite green in Hong Kong with immediate effect. I have learnt that the Government subsequently seized or forfeited large quantities of eel products which had been legally imported before the commencement of the Regulation, and warned traders that they were liable to prosecution if they were found selling eel products containing malachite green. The traders suffered heavy losses as a result of being unable to sell their eel products in stock. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the reasons for its policy on the control of malachite green in foods being lax at first and becoming strict afterwards;

    (b)of the legal basis for seizing or forfeiting the eel products which had been legally imported before the commencement of the above Regulation; and

    (c)whether it will compensate the traders concerned; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food

*For written reply.

III. Members' Motions

  1. Democratic political system

    Dr Hon YEUNG Sum: (Translation)

    That, as Hong Kong people have taken to the streets many times to strive for the dual elections by universal suffrage, this Council urges the Hong Kong SAR Government to seriously consider submitting a report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to reflect to it Hong Kong people's strong aspirations for universal suffrage, and to propose in the report a timetable and a roadmap for universal suffrage that are acceptable to Hong Kong people, so that the Chief Executive and all Members of the Legislative Council can be elected by universal suffrage as soon as possible.

    Public Officer to attend : Secretary for Constitutional Affairs

  2. Endeavouring to improve air quality

    Hon James TIEN: (Translation)

    That, further to the passage of my motion on "Vigorously reducing air pollution" by this Council last year, I put forward a proposal on "Collaborating in tackling cross-border air pollution" jointly with 92 members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at its meeting in March this year; the proposal received positive response from the State Environmental Protection Administration of China which has indicated that it will continue to take the lead and coordinate the work in this regard in order to enhance cooperation between Hong Kong and Guangdong on the environmental protection front; in this connection, this Council urges the Government to adopt the following complementary measures more positively with a view to curbing the trend of continuing deterioration of air quality in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta ("PRD") region:

    On the cooperation between Hong Kong and Guangdong:

    (a)endeavouring to achieve as early as possible the emission reduction targets for 2010 regarding the four types of pollutants;

    (b)expediting the formal commissioning of the PRD regional air quality monitoring network and other effective measures, so as to expeditiously unify the emission standards and regulatory regimes between Hong Kong and Guangdong;

    (c)expeditiously implementing the emissions trading pilot scheme;

    (d)stepping up negotiations with the Mainland authorities to provide business operators who have installed air pollution control systems in their plants in the PRD region with tax relief on depreciation of the relevant systems;

    (e)maintaining close cooperation with the State Environmental Protection Administration of China to promote the prevention and control of regional air pollution;

    On the local front:

    (f)introducing legislation to require motorists to switch off the engines of their vehicles while waiting, and according priority to regulating emissions from idling engines of private cars and government vehicles; and

    (g)on condition that there is no additional burden of electricity charges on the public or the industrial and commercial sectors, urging the two power companies to expedite various emission reduction projects and use more environmentally friendly fuels, so that the emission reduction targets originally set for 2010 can be achieved as early as possible.

    Amendments to motion
    (i)Hon CHOY So-yuk: (Translation)

    To add ", as amended by other Members," after " 'Vigorously reducing air pollution' "; to add "and enhancing the transparency in the dissemination of the monitoring information," after "effective measures,"; to add "and the Guangdong Environmental Protection Bureau" after "State Environmental Protection Administration of China"; to add "as well as idling engines of vehicles in school and hospital premises" after "government vehicles"; to delete "and" before "(g)"; and to add "; (h) further promoting the incentive scheme for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) light buses and extending it to light goods vehicles; (i) considering the provision of additional sites for setting up LPG filling stations; (j) actively engaging in research and development regarding the utilization of renewable energy, formulating a policy on renewable energy, setting utilization targets for renewable energy, requesting the two power companies to follow such policy and targets, stipulating in the Scheme of Control Agreements with the power companies the proportion of renewable energy to be used in electricity generation, and providing economic incentives to encourage the power companies to use more renewable energy; at the same time, formulating measures to promote the incorporation of renewable energy equipment into the power supply network; (k) vigorously introducing other types of environmentally friendly vehicles and environmentally friendly fuels, and formulating related incentive measures; (l) actively studying the feasibility of increasing the fines for smoky vehicles; (m) formulating a comprehensive and effective policy on energy conservation, with the Government taking the lead in implementing energy conservation measures in various departments and setting higher energy conservation targets, with a view to promoting community-wide involvement in energy conservation; (n) expeditiously implementing the regulatory scheme for products containing volatile organic compounds on which the Government and the trades have reached a consensus; (o) stepping up the testing of emissions from vehicles to ensure their compliance with Hong Kong's emission standards; and (p) expediting the implementation of the 'Indoor Air Quality Management Programme' and joining hands with the industrial and commercial sectors in actively promoting the programme, thereby preventing poor indoor air quality from harming the public's health" after "environmentally friendly fuels".

    Amendment to Hon CHOY So-yuk's amendment
    Hon Jeffrey LAM Kin-fung:     (Translation)

    To delete "further promoting" after "(h)" and substitute with "prolonging"; to delete "extending it to" after "light buses and" and substitute with "promoting the switch of"; to add "to LPG" after "light goods vehicles"; to delete "considering" after "(i)" and substitute with "expediting"; to delete "other types of" after "vigorously introducing"; and to delete "and" after "environmentally friendly vehicles" and substitute with "which run on a combination of petrol and electricity, hydrogen or natural gas, etc, including heavy and medium goods vehicles as well as buses; offering tax concessions and introducing".

    (ii)Hon SIN Chung-kai: (Translation)

    To add "fuel and" after "unify the"; to add "(f) setting up a matching grant fund, which can accept donations from the business sector, with the objectives of encouraging and subsidizing business operators in the PRD region to develop and promote emission treatment equipment, and taking forward projects that can help clean the air in the PRD region, while at the same time establishing a dedicated committee to manage the fund;" after "control of regional air pollution;"; to delete the original "(f)" and substitute with "(g)"; and to delete the original "(g)" and substitute with "(h)".

    Public Officer to attend : Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works

Clerk to the Legislative Council