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Extent of Ukraine's fulfillment of European integration obligations on environmental protection in 3 months grows by 2 pp – minister
KYIV. Aug 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The extent of the implementation of Ukraine’s European integration obligations by the country in terms of environmental protection legislation in August 2022 grew to 63%, while three months ago it was 61%, Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine Ruslan Strilets wrote on Facebook.
"I am sure that in two years, joint work with members of parliament and with the expert support of European colleagues, we will be able to reach 75%," the minister said on the social network.
According to him, the Verkhovna Rada is currently considering 19 European integration bills related to his ministry, four of which must be adopted in the first place to implement the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement. These include billsNo. 4461 on the territories of the Emerald Network, bill No. 7327 on the public environmental monitoring system, bill No. 4187 on supporting the development of domestic subsoil use, and bill No. 6004-2 on ensuring the constitutional rights of citizens to live in an environment that is safe for life and health.
Strylets said that a group of Ukrainian experts and specialists from the Ministry of Natural Resources of Ukraine, together with German colleagues, is studying, within the framework of the GIZ Ukraine Best Available Techniques (BAT) for Ukraine project, how the integrated environmental permit system works in Germany.
"The experience of this country in matters of industrial pollution control is one of the most significant in the EU. It is important for Ukraine that the adopted bill be really effective, and not just a law for the sake of formal implementation of the European directive," the minister said in the report.
In addition, already this autumn, the Ministry of Natural Resources plans to submit to the Rada a number of developed European integration documents, in particular, the following bills:
– On chemical safety and management of chemical products. With the adoption of the bill, the ministry plans to introduce an international classification of hazardous chemicals and synchronize Ukrainian legislation with the European one and introduce modern European regulation according to REACH and CLP standards.
– On packaging and packaging waste, which will introduce extended producer responsibility and bring the introduction of a circular (zero-waste) economy in Ukraine closer.
– On the waste of the extractive industry.
– On Amendments to the Law on Pesticides and Agrochemicals to improve public regulation in this area.
– On amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine to improve the provision of administrative services in the acquisition and implementation of the right to objects of flora and fauna and other issues of the use of flora and fauna.
– On forest reproductive resources.
