Report
06.07.2017
In the Assembly Hall of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia in Moscow, an open meeting of Rosprirodnadzor took place under the chairmanship of Artem Sidorov, the head of the Federal Service “The extended responsibility of producers and importers for recycling goods that have lost consumer properties”.
One of the priorities of the state policy in the field of environmental protection is the waste management in order to prevent their harmful effects on natural components and public health, as well as the involvement of waste in economic circulation as additional sources of raw materials.
The provisions of the Federal Law No. 458-FL, adopted on December 29, 2014, consolidated the foundations for implementation in the Russian Federation of a new incentive mechanism for the waste-processing industry, known throughout the world as the “Extended producer responsibility”, or EPR, whose main purpose is to stimulate the return to the cycle of waste, which are to be used as secondary resources, including those that are now buried in landfills and dumps without the extraction of valuable components. EPR can be implemented in three ways: by self-disposal of waste, by attracting counterparties that have a license for disposal, or through the payment of eco-tax.
The recycling rates will be revised only upwards, and, accordingly, to pay the environmental charge will not be profitable soon, but it will be economically and environmentally attractive to recycle on their own or to conclude contracts for recycling with the existing processing enterprises.
Rosprirodnadzor has established effective interdepartmental interaction with the Federal Tax Service, the Federal Customs Service, Rosstat, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation in identifying unconscientious importers and producers of goods that are either obliged to comply with the disposal standard or pay environmental charges.
An agreement has been reached with the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation that if Rosprirodnadzor discovers the facts of failure to report on the types of goods for which maximum disposal standards and environmental charges have been established, the materials will be forwarded by the Service to the appropriate prosecution authorities to consider the issue of initiating criminal proceedings.