The Committee on Environmental Policy, Use of Natural Resources and Elimination of Consequences of Chornobyl Disaster recommends that the Parliament rejects the Bill on Amendments to the Law "On the Legal Status of the Territory radioactively contaminated in the Result of Chornobyl Disaster" (re Permission to conduct certain Types of Activity in the Guaranteed Voluntary Resettlement Area and in Area of Enhanced Radio-Ecological Control)

21 December 2009, 11:25

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The Bill (Reg. No. 5245) excludes the following provisions from Clauses 16 and 18 of the Law  "On the Legal Status of the Territory radioactively contaminated in the Result of Chornobyl Disaster": "to prohibit construction of new and extension of operating enterprises directly not connected with the provision of public radio-ecological and social security; applying of pesticides, herbicides, weed and pest-killer chemicals without a special permit of the Cabinet of Ministers; construction of health resorts, children camps and new enterprises harmful to public health and the environment".  

 

The Committee members expressed a number of remarks concerning the Bill. Thus, the Bill fails to provide adequate economic and environmental arguments concerning the amendments to be introduced. 

 

The People´s Deputies deem necessary to employ the procedure envisaged by Part 5 of Clause 2 of the effective Law while tackling the issues of economic revival of radioactively contaminated territories.