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Environmental regulation based on the technological standards, under the condition of
acceptable risk to the environment and human health;
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Step-by-step elimination of the practice of setting the temporary above permitted
standard emissions and discharges.
Secondly, on the 15th of April, 2014, the State Program of the Russian Federation
“Environment 2012 to 2020” was approved by the RF Government Decree № 326. Taking into
account the priorities of the state policy in the field of environmental protection the objective of
the Program is to improve environmental safety and preservation of natural systems. It includes
financing for a subprogram named “Regulation of Environmental Quality” which consists of
over 70 billion rubles from the federal budget.
The transition to the new state regulation system in the field of environmental protection will
take about 10 years. The main tasks of the transition to this system are presented in the Table 3.
Period
Main tasks
2013-
- Put all objects of economic activity on the state records;
2017
- Differentiation of enterprises according to the degree of impact
- Adaptation of sectoral BREFs to the Russian conditions;
- Enterprises must prepare the action plans to reduce the negative impact on
the environment.
From
2019
- A ban on putting into operation new facilities whose emissions / discharges
do not correspond to the BAT, except for those companies that received a
building permit before 01.01.2019
- Implementation of the transition to integrated environmental permits and
declaring of the negative impact on the environment.
From
2020
- Increase in the coefficients to the rates of payments for emissions / discharges
of harmful substances (pollutants) within the temporarily permissible emissions
/ discharges carried out with their excess
From
- Administrative restrictions will address the existing businesses
2025
Table 3: Main tasks of the transition to the new system of state regulation in the field of environmental
protection
In accordance with the “Plan of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian
Federation for 2013 to 2018”, by the fourth quarter of 2017, the normative legal acts necessary
for the implementation of the Federal Law N 219-FZ must be approved, Russian sectoral
BREFs published and organizational measures for the functioning of a new system of integrated
environmental permits implemented.
It is expected that not less than 30 major companies will have integrated environmental permits
by the fourth quarter 2018 and will have begun to realize ecological modernization programs.
Regulation of Environmental Protection for Environmentally Hazardous Facilities in the Russian Arctic