The Committee on Environmental Policy, Use of Natural Resources and Chornobyl Aftermath Mitigation recommends that the Parliament should refer for refinement the draft law to strengthen state control over the use of natural resources that are in private ownership of economic agents

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
13 March 2013, 16:59

The bill (Reg. No. 1046) suggests increasing the level of responsibility of economic agents in regard to fulfillment of requirements of environmental legislation concerning effective and balanced use of natural resources by increasing state control over natural resources that are in private ownership of economic agents. The bill introduces mandatory alienation of natural resources into state or communal ownership, in case, economic agent violates legal regime of their use established by the law.

Committee members stressed that the idea of strengthening responsibility for violating legal regime of the use of natural resources should be supported, stressing however, that that the majority of the bill provisions are already regulated by the current law.

As was stressed in the conclusions of the Central Scientific Experts Office of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat and the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine, there is no need to adopt the bill. The Committee on Rules of Parliamentary Procedure, Ethics and Support to Work of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has certain remarks to the text of the bill and accompanying documents.