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ally, MESTECC wrote to the ASEAN Secretariat for a special tele NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC FACILITY AND EQUIPMENT
conference to be held at the Ministers’ level to discuss transboundary haze (NSFE) SHARING
issues. This thus allowed for the ASEAN platform to be leveraged more
effectively in addressing the issue. MESTECC has developed an online National Scientific Facilities and
Equipment (NSFE) via website and mobile app. The NSFE initiative
In addition, the Government has also identified and would implement does not only increase the rate of asset sweating rate of the Government’s
three long term measures to address the haze issues. Firstly, by speaking out scientific equipment but also allows for the industry’s R&D fund to be
firmly to request for member countries particularly Indonesia to comply utilised more efficiently by avoiding overlaps in new equipment purchases.
with the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution. Secondly,
by reviewing the new legal requirements under the Transboundary Haze To date, NSFE has offered other parties the opportunity to use more than
Pollution Act 2014 to take actions on individuals or corporations who 1,200 Government’s scientific facility worth at least RM100,000 for each
conduct open burning and cause haze in Malaysia. Thirdly, the Government equipment. They include researchers and industries, particularly the small
has allocated RM3 million for research as an effort to find innovative and medium entreprenerurs, through rentals and analytical services.
solutions for effectively extinguishing peat fires.
YB Puan Yeo Bee Yin reviews the preparation of cloud seeding operation in Selangor, YB Puan Isnaraissah Munirah Majilis demonstrates the National Scientific Facilities and
Perak and Penang on 19 September 2019. Equipment (NSFE) mobile app at the media conference following the launch of NSFE
on 11 April 2019.
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conference to be held at the Ministers’ level to discuss transboundary haze (NSFE) SHARING
issues. This thus allowed for the ASEAN platform to be leveraged more
effectively in addressing the issue. MESTECC has developed an online National Scientific Facilities and
Equipment (NSFE) via website and mobile app. The NSFE initiative
In addition, the Government has also identified and would implement does not only increase the rate of asset sweating rate of the Government’s
three long term measures to address the haze issues. Firstly, by speaking out scientific equipment but also allows for the industry’s R&D fund to be
firmly to request for member countries particularly Indonesia to comply utilised more efficiently by avoiding overlaps in new equipment purchases.
with the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution. Secondly,
by reviewing the new legal requirements under the Transboundary Haze To date, NSFE has offered other parties the opportunity to use more than
Pollution Act 2014 to take actions on individuals or corporations who 1,200 Government’s scientific facility worth at least RM100,000 for each
conduct open burning and cause haze in Malaysia. Thirdly, the Government equipment. They include researchers and industries, particularly the small
has allocated RM3 million for research as an effort to find innovative and medium entreprenerurs, through rentals and analytical services.
solutions for effectively extinguishing peat fires.
YB Puan Yeo Bee Yin reviews the preparation of cloud seeding operation in Selangor, YB Puan Isnaraissah Munirah Majilis demonstrates the National Scientific Facilities and
Perak and Penang on 19 September 2019. Equipment (NSFE) mobile app at the media conference following the launch of NSFE
on 11 April 2019.
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