The current standard is developed for the purpose of implementation of Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China; promoting the application of information technology in environmental protection and standardizing and guiding the compilation of documentation format of environmental dataset. The current standard specifies the content and format requirements of documentation format of environmental dataset. Annex A of the current standard is a normative annex. Annex B is an informative annex. The current standard is released for the first time.