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 Waste" (re Waste by Production of Ferrous and Nonferrous Metal)
17 May 2010, 12:32
The bill (Reg. No. 6187) introduces
amendments to clauses 9 and 10 of the Law "On Waste", pursuant to which mining
and smelting enterprises are considered as the owners of waste originated during
production and concentration of iron-ore and manganic
feed stock, production of ferrous and nonferrous metal and their alloys (dross,
final tailings). Under the bill, if the state enterprise is privatized and the
property right for the collected waste is transferred to a new owner, this
waste "shall not be re-privatized by the state."
The Committee members stated that the bill "has significant defects, the suggested supplements not complying with other provisions and legislative acts."
The People´s Deputies stated that treatment of the remains of ferrous and nonferrous metal and their alloys is regulated by the Law "On Metal Scrap", while the extraction of metal elements from the dross of metallurgical processing of ferrous and nonferrous metal is treated as a metal scrap recycling. Thus, the waste originated during the production of ferrous and nonferrous metal fails to fall under the term "waste" as defined by the Law "On Waste."
The Committee members also stated that transfer of the property right for the recoverable waste, and the procedure of its study and industrial use are regulated by the Law "On Mineral Resources." Pursuant to the Law "On State Property Privatization", it is the object of privatization with its entire assets, including waste, that is subject to privatization.